EJToday: Top Headlines

"Canada Releases Framework To Phase Out Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies" [9]

"Canada on Monday released a framework for eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, making it the first G20 country to deliver on a 2009 commitment to rationalise and phase out government support for the sector."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Canada [16]
Source: Reuters [17], 07/25/2023
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"UAE Says Committed To Meet CO2 Emissions Targets After Criticism" [18]

"The United Arab Emirates has said it is committed to delivering targets to cut the CO2 emissions causing climate change after an independent research group said the country, which will host this year's COP28 climate summit, is far off track."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [20]
Public [14]
International [15]
Middle East [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 07/25/2023
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Texas Prisoners Struggle To Endure Heat Wave Without Air Conditioning [23]

"A deadly heat wave continues across the Southwest, and an often forgotten group of people affected are prisoners. Many inmates struggle to stay cool in aging facilities, including in Texas — where some 100,000 prisoners live in large facilities that lack air conditioning."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Government [20]
People & Population [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: Texas Public Radio [30], 07/25/2023
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"Pacific Seabed Mining Delayed as International Agency Finalizes Rules" [31]

"The start of industrial-scale seabed mining to extract car battery metals from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been delayed after the international agency charged with overseeing the work concluded late last week that it needed more time to finalize mining rules."

Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [34], 07/25/2023
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Tucker Carlson's Replacement Also Spreads Climate Misinformation [35]

"Jesse Watters, the Fox News host who replaced Carlson, debuted his new primetime show Monday. Like his predecessor, he downplayed the climate crisis and stoked culture-war outrage."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [36]
Science [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 07/25/2023
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California Acts As Young Men Making Quartz Countertops Face Lung Damage [39]

"California is poised to become the first state in the country to adopt special measures to protect workers who make kitchen and bathroom countertops out of a popular kind of artificial stone known as "quartz.""

Air [40]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [41]
Public [14]
California [42]
Source: NPR [43], 07/25/2023
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"Bug-Eating Venus Flytrap Won’t Get Endangered Species Protection" [44]

"The Venus flytrap—a toothy, insect-eating plant native to wet pine forests in the Carolinas—will not be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday in a decision that refutes the findings of 26 scientists who petitioned for the plant’s protection."

Biodiversity [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 07/25/2023
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July Is On Track To Be The Hottest Month On Record; Worse Is Coming [48]

"July is shaping up to be the planet’s hottest month on record as global warming, El Niño and regional heat waves conspire to push civilization into uncharted thermal territory, experts say."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: LA Times [49], 07/24/2023
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Scientists Say Record Heat Numbers Paint The Story Of A Warming World [50]

"With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: AP [51], 07/24/2023
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"The World’s Moving Closer To Deep-Sea Mining. There Are No Rules." [52]

"With a Canadian company preparing a bid to mine the Pacific Ocean for minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries, an international oversight agency is meeting in Jamaica this month to come up with permitting rules."

Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [41]
Technology [55]
Transportation [56]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: E&E News [57], 07/24/2023
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Catastrophic Calif. Flood Plunged Marginalized Farmworkers Into Crisis [58]

"It was half past midnight on March 11 when a cacophony of sirens and shouting jolted Emilio Vasquez and his family from a sound sleep. “Get out of your houses immediately!” a voice barked in Spanish through a bullhorn. “The water is coming!”"

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
California [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 07/24/2023
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Biden DOE Proposes Tighter Efficiency Rule For New Home Water Heaters [61]

"The Biden administration on Friday proposed tightening an efficiency standard for new residential water heaters — a move that it said would both save consumers money and combat climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [62]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: The Hill [63], 07/24/2023
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15 Billion Gallons/Yr Of Sewage-Polluted Water Flows Into Philly Rivers [64]

"Each year, Philadelphia's waterways are forced to swallow a dirty mix containing 15 billion gallons of untreated sewage and rainwater during storms because of an antiquated city system, according to a report released Thursday by PennEnvironment."

Environmental Health [25]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Infrastructure [65]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [66]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [67], 07/24/2023
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"EPA’s Top Cop Finally Cleared for Job as Senate Confirms Uhlmann" [68]

"David Uhlmann, the White House’s pick to lead the EPA’s enforcement office, will finally ascend to the job after the Senate voted 53-46 Thursday to confirm him following an odyssey lasting more than two years."

Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [41]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 07/24/2023
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"Would You Drink Wastewater? What if It Was Beer?" [70]

"In an era of drought, turning treated wastewater into drinking water may be the future. Utility companies are working with breweries to get people past the “ick factor.”"

Consumer [62]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NYTimes [71], 07/24/2023
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