EJToday: Top Headlines

"CDC Issues Health Alert For Deadly Tick-Borne Disease" [9]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned clinicians and the public about an outbreak of a rare but deadly tick-borne disease that hospitalized five patients in Southern California, killing three of them, after they traveled to or lived in a Mexican border city in recent months."

Environmental Health [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: Washington Post [14], 12/11/2023
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NPS Teaming Up With Tribes To Tell 'More Complete Story' Of U.S. History [15]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the National Park Service is launching an initiative with Native American tribes to tell “a more complete story of American history” at the country’s 428 national park sites."

Environmental Justice [16]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [19]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: HuffPost [20], 12/11/2023
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Wildfires, Drought Caused $11.2 Billion Losses To Private West Coast Forests [21]

"A new study from Oregon State University estimates that wildfire and drought caused $11.2 billion in economic losses to privately owned timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades."

Climate Change [22]
Forests [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [11]
California [25]
Northwest (OR WA) [26]
Source: Tribune News Service [27], 12/11/2023
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"EPA to Louisiana: Strengthen Baton Rouge Air Emission Rules, Or We Will" [28]

"Louisiana must strengthen rules over the release of ozone-creating nitrogen oxide air emissions by industries in the Baton Rouge area during startups, shutdowns and malfunctions, or the federal Environmental Protection Agency will write and enforce its own rules, the agency announced this week."

Air [29]
Chemicals [30]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [34], 12/11/2023
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"Wyoming Looks To Extract High Price From Feds For Teton Land" [35]

"The National Park Service will get another chance to buy a 640-acre parcel of state-owned land inside the border of Grand Teton National Park after the Wyoming State Board of Land Commissioners voted Thursday to delay a proposed auction."

Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [18]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [36]
Source: E&E News [37], 12/11/2023
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Trump Slams Kerry In Wild Town Hall, Insisting Climate Change Not A Problem [38]

"Former President Donald Trump didn’t shy away from echoing his adamant denial of climate change during a town hall Tuesday in Iowa hosted by Sean Hannity."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [39]
Science [40]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: HuffPost [41], 12/11/2023
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"Looking For Honey? This African Bird Will Heed Your Call And Take You There" [42]

"A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them."

Biodiversity [43]
Public [11]
Africa [44]
Source: NPR [45], 12/11/2023
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"Election-Year Rules Could Span Coal Dust To California Owls" [46]

"The Biden administration aims to complete an ambitious set of energy and environment-related rules as it navigates the tumult of a presidential election year."

Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [47], 12/08/2023
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Pregnant Women Near Farms Had Higher Weedkiller Levels During Spraying Season [48]

"Pregnant women living near farm fields show “significantly” increased concentrations of glyphosate weedkiller in their urine during periods when farmers are spraying their fields with the herbicide, according to a new scientific paper published on Wednesday."

Agriculture [49]
Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Guardian [50], 12/08/2023
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Turning Blades Send First Commercial Offshore Wind Power Onto US Grid [51]

"Despite some recent financial setbacks, U.S. offshore windpower has hit a milestone. An 800-foot tall turbine is now sending electricity onto the grid from a commercial-scale offshore wind farm on pace to be the country’s first."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [52]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [53], 12/08/2023
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"Earth On Verge Of 5 Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn" [54]

"Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms".

"Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned.

Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world heats 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial temperatures.
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [55]
Public [11]
International [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 12/08/2023
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"Scientists: Climate Change Intensified The Rains Devastating East Africa" [58]

"Ongoing catastrophic rains in Eastern Africa have been worsened by human-caused climate change that made them up to two times more intense, an international team of climate scientists said Thursday."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [55]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [11]
Africa [44]
Source: AP [59], 12/08/2023
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Indian Companies Bring Ultra-Toxic Industry To Africa. People Getting Sick [60]

"Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [16]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Waste [61]
Public [11]
International [56]
Africa [44]
Asia [62]
Source: The Examination [63], 12/08/2023
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Canada’s Plans To Crack Down On Greenwashing Don’t Go Far Enough: Advocates [64]

"A new federal government proposal to crack down on corporate greenwashing in Canada doesn’t go far enough to stop the oil and gas industry from using misleading marketing tactics, two environmental advocacy groups have argued."

Activism [65]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [52]
Environmental Politics [39]
Journalism & Media [17]
Science [40]
Public [11]
Canada [66]
Source: The Narwhal [67], 12/08/2023
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"How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss" [68]

"The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts warn the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use."

Agriculture [49]
Forests [23]
Natural Resources [18]
Transportation [69]
Public [11]
International [56]
Source: YaleE360 [70], 12/08/2023
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