EJToday: Top Headlines

"Harvard Professor’s Fossil Fuel Links Under Scrutiny Over Climate Grant" [9]

"An eminent Harvard environmental law professor’s links to the fossil fuel industry are under scrutiny from colleagues and students after she was awarded a prestigious research grant to investigate corporate climate pledges."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 04/03/2023
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"Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy" [17]

"With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’s wild lands to his efforts to push the nation toward renewable energy."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: YaleE360 [23], 04/03/2023
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"Meatball From Long-Extinct Mammoth Created By Food Firm" [24]

"A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals."

Biodiversity [18]
Food [25]
Technology [26]
Public [14]
International [27]
Source: Guardian [28], 04/03/2023
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"House GOP Approves Broad Bill To ‘Unleash’ American Energy" [29]

"House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [31], 03/31/2023
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"BLM Proposes Seismic Shift In Lands Management" [32]

"The Bureau of Land Management unveiled a sweeping draft rule Thursday that would represent a fundamental shift in how the agency manages millions of acres of public lands that are under increasing threat from climate change, drought and wildfires."

Agriculture [33]
Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Forests [35]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [37], 03/31/2023
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Biden To Announce Federal Funding For Mississippi Tornado Recovery Friday [38]

"U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's storm that killed 26 people, a White House official said."

Disasters [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [40], 03/31/2023
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"EPA Proposes to Add First-Ever Navajo Site to Superfund List" [41]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District to the Superfund National Priorities List, according to EPA Thursday. The site, located entirely on the Navajo Nation, holds over a hundred waste piles stemming from uranium mining, the agency said."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [30]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [44]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [45], 03/31/2023
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"Long-Awaited Rules for Carbon Offset Market Disappoint Experts" [46]

"A widely touted effort to clean up the embattled carbon-offsets market has been met with disappointment among experts."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [47]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [35]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [14]
International [27]
Source: Bloomberg Green [48], 03/31/2023
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"‘Gone Wrong’: Doubts On Carbon-Credit Program In Peru Forest" [49]

"The Cordillera Azul National Park on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes takes in a sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains and waterfalls in a territory about the size of Connecticut, so precious that tens of millions of dollars in carbon credits have been sold in a program that supporters said would protect its trees."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [47]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [14]
South America [51]
Source: AP [52], 03/31/2023
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"Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production" [53]

"Coal industry influence and climate change denial paved the state’s race to the clean energy bottom. As one lawmaker put it: “God created coal for people.”"

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [47]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 03/31/2023
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"Court Brings Mountain Valley Pipeline Closer To Completion" [56]

"The Mountain Valley pipeline inched toward completion after a three-judge panel Wednesday unanimously denied environmentalists’ challenge to a Virginia water permit for the planned natural gas project."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [57]
Source: E&E News [58], 03/31/2023
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"Australia Makes Biggest Carbon Polluters Curb Emissions" [59]

"The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
Australia & Oceania [60]
Source: AP [61], 03/31/2023
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"Horses Came To American West By Early 1600s, Study Finds" [62]

"A new analysis of horse bones gathered from museums across the Great Plains and northern Rockies has revealed that horses were present in the grasslands by the early 1600s, earlier than many written histories suggest."

Biodiversity [18]
People & Population [22]
Wildlife [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [63], 03/31/2023
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"Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Water Rule" [64]

"The Senate on Wednesday afternoon approved a resolution against the Biden administration’s signature water policy, in a move all but guaranteed to spark the president’s second veto ever."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Pollution [43]
Water & Oceans [65]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [66], 03/30/2023
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"House GOP To Pass Energy Package With Eye On Gas Prices, 2024" [67]

"Democrats argue the legislation, which is “dead on arrival” in the Senate, doesn’t address critical climate issues".

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [68], 03/30/2023
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