EJToday: Top Headlines

"Climate Aid, War Fallout Feature At Berlin Climate Talks" [9]

"Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
International [13]
Source: AP [14], 07/17/2023
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"Grid Transformer Supply Crunch Threatens Clean Energy Plans" [15]

"Long lead times for distribution transformers have emerged in recent months as a bottleneck that threatens progress toward meeting climate goals and upgrading the country’s power grid, industry leaders and energy officials said."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Infrastructure [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [20], 07/17/2023
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"How A Saudi Firm Tapped A Gusher Of Water In Drought-Stricken Arizona" [21]

"For nearly a decade, the state of Arizona has leased this rural terrain west of Phoenix to a Saudi-owned company, allowing it to pump all the water it needs to grow the alfalfa hay — a crop it exports to feed the kingdom’s dairy cows. And, for years, the state did not know how much water the company was consuming."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: Washington Post [25], 07/17/2023
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Rice Crops Threatened By El Nino After Grain Supplies Were Disrupted By War [26]

"Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Food [27]
Public [12]
Asia [28]
Source: AP [29], 07/17/2023
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"States Struggle To Plug Oil Wells With Infrastructure Law Cash" [30]

"Across Schuyler Wight’s two West Texas ranches, about 250 abandoned oil and gas wells sit open and unused, creating a link from the dusty surface to smelly chemicals and gases thousands of feet underground."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Pollution [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: E&E News [32], 07/17/2023
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"The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet" [33]

"Fiberglass revolutionized boating, but decades later, discarded and degraded vessels are adding to marine pollution."

Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [13]
Source: Hakai [34], 07/17/2023
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"Bringing Back Monarchs One Ranch at a Time" [35]

"When he was growing up in the coastal California village of Bolinas in the 1980s, Ole Schell remembers, the monarchs that returned each fall to their overwintering sites seemed 'endless.'"

Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [36]
Natural Resources [37]
Wildlife [38]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mexico [39]
Source: Sierra [40], 07/17/2023
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Southwest's Enduring Heat Wave Is Expected To Intensify Over The Weekend [41]

"An expansive heatwave that's been baking the southern United States for nearly two weeks is only expected to intensify as the weekend approaches, forecasters say. Heat advisories and warnings are still in place from Florida to Arizona, impacting more than 111 million people, according to a count from the Associated Press."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NPR [44], 07/14/2023
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"Republicans Assail Kerry’s Climate Strategy as He Prepares for China Talks" [45]

"Republicans on Thursday accused John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate, of being soft on China as he prepared to travel to Beijing to restart discussions between the world’s top two polluting countries."

Climate Change [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [13]
Source: NYTimes [46], 07/14/2023
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"Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says" [47]

"Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can all but eliminate the leaks that plague its use."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [13]
Source: NYTimes [48], 07/14/2023
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WHO Lists Sweetener Aspartame As Possible Cancer Cause. Some Say It’s Safe [49]

"The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.

The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Chemicals [50]
Consumer [51]
Environmental Health [43]
Food [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [52], 07/14/2023
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Houston To Relocate People Living Near Polluted Union Pacific Rail Yard [53]

"Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor announced Thursday."

Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [43]
Pollution [31]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: AP [54], 07/14/2023
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EPA Finalizes Rule Furthering 40 Percent Phasedown Of Planet-Warming HFCs [55]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday took another step toward reducing the use of planet-warming gasses called hydrofluorocarbons, issuing a rule moving toward a 40 percent phasedown of the substances."

Chemicals [50]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [51]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [56]
Pollution [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [57], 07/14/2023
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Oil And Gas Responsible For $77 Billion In Annual US Health Damages: Study [58]

"Proposed EPA methane limits may help curtail 7,500 yearly deaths from oil and gas production sites."

Air [59]
Environmental Health [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [56]
Pollution [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: EHN [60], 07/14/2023
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Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Drilling [61]

"For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [43]
Environmental Justice [62]
Laws & Regulations [56]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 07/14/2023
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