EJToday: Top Headlines

"NYC Buildings Complying With Emissions Law Faster Than Expected" [9]

"New York City’s biggest buildings are complying with a landmark emissions law at a much faster rate than the city expected, undermining the real estate sector’s claims that the rules will be too hard to meet."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Public [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 08/17/2023
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Pa. Kids Near Fracking Wells Face Higher Risk For Childhood Cancer And Asthma [16]

"Residents living near fracking wells were more likely to experience childhood cancer, severe asthma attacks and low birth weights, found three long-awaited studies on fracking and health released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Tuesday evening."

Chemicals [17]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Source: EHN [20], 08/17/2023
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Farmworkers Can’t Escape Life-Threatening Heat At Work And At Home [21]

"One morning this summer, several days into temperatures above 110 degrees in this farming community, Socorro Galvez, 53, began to feel weak as she picked grapes in the suffocating heat."

Agriculture [22]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [25]
Source: LA Times [26], 08/17/2023
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"One Family’s Toxic Train Wreck Ordeal: Illness, Exile and Debt" [27]

"The Albright family left town after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near their Ohio home. Now, they are back, facing personal, medical and financial crises in a newly divided community."

Chemicals [17]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [29]
Transportation [30]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 08/17/2023
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"‘This Way Of Farming Is Really Sexy’: The Rise Of Regenerative Agriculture" [33]

"On the Isle of Wight Hollie Fallick and Francesca Cooper are part of a movement to bring tired and depleted soil back to life – and boost food security".

Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [13]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 08/17/2023
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"How 10,000 Years Of Plagues Left Their Mark On Our DNA" [38]

"Agnolo di Tura was a sometime shoemaker and tax collector with a yen for keeping a journal. He was also his family’s sole survivor when the Black Death tore through Siena, Italy, in 1348. He buried his wife and five children with his own hands, he wrote in his journal. He was somehow spared."

Biodiversity [34]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [13]
International [36]
Source: Washington Post [39], 08/17/2023
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"Books For Our New, Climate-Changed Summers" [40]

"After the daunting heatwaves and storms of this summer, our cheery visions of the season seem at odds with our climate-changed reality."

Climate Change [10]
Journalism & Media [41]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [42], 08/17/2023
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"Canada's Northwest Territories Declares Emergency Due To Wildfires" [43]

"The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a risk to territorial capital Yellowknife."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Forests [44]
Public [13]
Canada [45]
Source: Reuters [46], 08/16/2023
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90% Of England’s Most Precious Rivers Polluteded By Raw Sewage And Farming [47]

"More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals."

Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [48]
Water & Oceans [49]
Public [13]
Europe [50]
Source: Guardian [51], 08/16/2023
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"Despite Climate Goals, California Will Let Three Gas Plants Keep Running" [52]

"Sometimes, breaking news is spectacularly unsurprising — but still hugely consequential. That was the case Tuesday, when California officials finalized a decision they’d been telegraphing for months, voting to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants along the state’s southern coast through 2026, instead of closing them later this year.

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [18]
Pollution [48]
Public [13]
California [25]
Source: LA Times [53], 08/16/2023
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"Interior Announces Potential Offshore Wind Areas For Oregon" [54]

"The Biden administration advanced the first potential floating offshore wind auctions off the Oregon coast Tuesday by designating where sales might be located."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [55]
Water & Oceans [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Northwest (OR WA) [56]
Source: E&E News [57], 08/16/2023
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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves [58]

"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"

Air [59]
Chemicals [17]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [55]
Pollution [48]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [60]
Source: Public Health Watch [61], 08/16/2023
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"Reviving the Redwoods" [62]

"A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws."

Forests [44]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [13]
California [25]
Source: NYTimes [63], 08/16/2023
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Minnesota Tribal School Fights To Eliminate PFAS in Drinking Water [64]

"As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind."

Chemicals [17]
Consumer [65]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [23]
Infrastructure [12]
Pollution [48]
Water & Oceans [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Source: Grist [66], 08/16/2023
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"Alarm At Exodus Of Climate Voices On Twitter After Musk Takeover" [67]

"Half of regular green tweeters abandoned platform after its sale and cuts to moderation, analysis finds".

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [41]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [68], 08/16/2023
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