EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA: Cleaning Product Chemical Poses Cancer Threats" [9]

"EPA has found that a dangerous chemical prevalent in drinking water poses more risks than previously determined, including outsize cancer threats."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [18], 07/11/2023
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U.S. Banned Use of Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food -- But Slowed a Global Ban [19]

"Chlorpyrifos is so harmful that America banned its use on food. But a top EPA official made it clear that the U.S. was not ready to support similar protections for the rest of the world under a treaty that restricts pollutants that travel the globe."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [21]
Source: ProPublica [22], 07/11/2023
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Alabama Black Belt Case Tests Whether Sanitation Is a Civil Right [23]

"The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Alabama had agreed to remediate a sewage crisis in majority-Black Lowndes County."

Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: Birmingham News [27], 07/11/2023
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"Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters" [28]

"Environmental concerns are raised anew about potential contamination from Canadian open-pit mines flowing through the waterways into Montana’s lakes, harming fish."

Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [25]
Waste [30]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Canada [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 07/11/2023
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A Racist Past And Hotter Future Testing Western Water Like Never Before [33]

"As droughts strain water supplies across Western states, some cities and farmers have struggled with mandatory cutbacks. Determining who gets cut is decided by the foundational pecking order of Western water: the older your claim to water, created as the country expanded westward, the better protected it is."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [34]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NPR [35], 07/11/2023
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"Biden Admin Announces $650 Million To Plug Orphaned Gas And Oil Wells" [36]

"The Interior Department announced Monday more than $650 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to plug abandoned oil and gas wells."

Climate Change [34]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [38]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [39], 07/11/2023
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Oregon Town Buys Surrounding Forests to Confront Climate-Driven Wildfires [40]

"A logger, forester and former mayor joined forces to help Butte Falls manage its forests to protect the town and build an economy supported by tourism rather than logging."

Climate Change [34]
Disasters [41]
Forests [42]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [43]
Planning & Growth [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 07/11/2023
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"U.S. Truckmakers Reach Deal To Phase Out Polluting Diesel Big Rigs" [46]

"Some of the largest manufacturers of heavy trucks and engines in the country have agreed to accept a California plan to ban sales of new diesel big rigs by 2036 under a deal aimed in part at thwarting potential litigation and maintaining a single national standard for truck pollution rules."

Air [47]
Climate Change [34]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [25]
Transportation [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [50], 07/10/2023
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"Protect This Place: The Montana River Threatened By a Shuttered Pulp Mill" [51]

"Industrial waste from a mill is leaching into the groundwater and polluting the Clark Fork River. A major flood could cause an even bigger catastrophe."

Environmental Health [13]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [53]
Source: The Revelator [54], 07/10/2023
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"It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee" [55]

"Huge green blooms are threatening wildlife, pets, people and cities. And algae season is only getting started."

Agriculture [20]
Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [38]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [15]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: NYTimes [57], 07/10/2023
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Deer Park Chemical Fire In 2019 Could Have Been Prevented, CSB Finds [58]

"A massive Houston-area chemical fire that burned for three days in 2019 could have been prevented if proper procedures were in place at the chemical storage facility run by the Intercontinental Terminals Co., according to an investigation released Thursday by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [59]
Source: Texas Tribune [60], 07/10/2023
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British Mill Company's Pollution Draws Scrutiny In Mississippi. Less In La. [61]

"When Mississippi environmental regulators checked the emissions of a large wood pellet mill operating a few miles from the Louisiana line, they found pollution levels two times higher than the legal limit."

Air [47]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [62], 07/10/2023
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"It’s Deadline Day for Deep-Sea Mining" [63]

"The International Seabed Authority had until this weekend to finish drafting exploitation regulations for deep-sea mining. They’re not done. So now what happens?"

Biodiversity [64]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [34]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
International [21]
Source: Hakai [65], 07/10/2023
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"New Mexico Trail Clash Echoes Culture War Across US West" [66]

"Physiotherapist Spencer Bushnell lives less than a mile from farmer Carlos Arguello in Taos, New Mexico. But they are worlds apart on proposals to lace the foothills they love with up to 71 miles of mountain bike and hiking trails."

Environmental Politics [48]
Forests [42]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Transportation [49]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [59]
Source: Reuters [67], 07/10/2023
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"Energy Groups Object to Conservation as Use of Public Lands" [68]

"Defining conservation as a specific “use” of public lands is shaping up to be the primary point of legal opposition to a proposed federal lands rule that would prioritize conservation over fossil fuels extraction and allow public lands management to adapt to a changing climate."

Laws & Regulations [14]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 07/10/2023
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