EJToday: Top Headlines

"Dems Slam Ads Depicting National Parks Overrun By Migrants" [9]

"The National Republican Congressional Committee says the ads show parks under “extreme House Democrats.” Critics call the ads misleading and deceptive."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [16], 02/29/2024
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"Harmful Waste Generation Set To Jump, U.N. Warns" [17]

"Waste produced by the public will surge by 2050, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage through biodiversity loss, climate change and deadly pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Wednesday."

Consumer [18]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [19]
Waste [20]
Public [14]
International [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 02/29/2024
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After Fighting a Landfill Expansion, Houston Residents Await Methane Rules [23]

"When the Hawthorne Park Landfill opened in 1977, it transformed everyday life for residents of Carverdale, a historically Black neighborhood in northwest Houston. Myra Jefferson has seen pests and roaches from the dump multiply over the decades and remembers yellow dust from the rot sticking to everything."

Air [24]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [19]
Waste [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 02/29/2024
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Greens To Petition Biden For Cleanup Rules For Offshore Oil Infrastructure [30]

"A coalition of environmental advocacy groups will petition the Biden administration to propose rules that require stricter enforcement for cleaning up leftover infrastructure for offshore drilling."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [35], 02/29/2024
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Grease-Proof Food Packaging Containing PFAS Is No Longer Being Sold: FDA [36]

"Grease-proof food wrappers being sold in the U.S. will no longer contain toxic “forever chemicals” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday."

Chemicals [37]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [26]
Food [38]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [39], 02/29/2024
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EU Approves Landmark Bill To Restore 20% Of Its Land And Seas By 2030 [40]

"EU lawmakers on Tuesday gave the final green light to a milestone bill aimed at protecting nature in the bloc, overriding conservative attempts to torpedo a law that has angered European farmers."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [14]
Europe [42]
Source: AFP [43], 02/29/2024
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"The Butterfly Redemption" [44]

"How scientists, volunteers, and incarcerated women are finding hope and metamorphosis through supporting a struggling butterfly."

Biodiversity [45]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [46]
Wildlife [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [48]
Source: Hakai [49], 02/29/2024
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"EPA Offers Another $1B For Superfund Cleanups" [50]

"EPA announced an additional $1 billion will go toward cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated areas under its Superfund program." "The funding will help scrub 25 waste sites and speed cleanups at another 85 existing tracts."

Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [10]
Pollution [19]
Waste [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [51], 02/28/2024
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"Microplastics Found In Every Human Placenta Tested In Study" [52]

"Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses."

Chemicals [37]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [26]
Pollution [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [21]
Source: Guardian [53], 02/28/2024
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"Scientists Confirm First Cases Of Bird Flu On Mainland Antarctica" [54]

"Bird flu has reached mainland of Antarctica for the first time, officials have confirmed."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Health [26]
Wildlife [47]
Public [14]
International [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [55]
Source: Guardian [56], 02/28/2024
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"‘No Means No’: Conservation Spat May Still Sink Farm Bill" [57]

"After more than a year of hearings, listening sessions and heavy lobbying by policy groups, the five-year bill that funds agriculture and nutrition programs doesn’t look much closer to becoming law than it did when the discussions began."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [58], 02/28/2024
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"Why Is Britain Quitting The Energy Charter Treaty?" [59]

"Britain announced this week that it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over its failure to align with its net zero plans. Since the late 1990s, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has allowed firms and investors to sue governments whose plans to cut emissions from fossil fuels could hurt corporate profits."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [14]
International [21]
Europe [42]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [61], 02/28/2024
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Antarctica ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Threatens Sea Level As Study Funds Melt [62]

"In a worst case scenario, rising global temperatures and marine heatwaves could melt enough of the Thwaites Glacier and other Antarctic ice to raise sea levels 10 feet by the early 2100s."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [63]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [14]
International [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [55]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 02/28/2024
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"Montana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Major Copper Mine" [65]

"Stalled work on a major copper mine proposed in central Montana can proceed after the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that officials had adequately reviewed the project’s environmental effects."

Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [66]
Source: AP [67], 02/28/2024
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Cities Warn of Funding Struggle as EPA Preps PFAS Drinking Water Rule [68]

"Cash-strapped city water systems are struggling to envision how they’ll pay to filter “forever chemicals” out of drinking water in light of an EPA rule that could be finalized as soon as March."

Chemicals [37]
Economy & Business [60]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 02/28/2024
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