EJToday: Top Headlines

"In Mega-Hot Arizona, Climate Is Not on the Ballot. But It Might as Well Be" [9]

"When it comes to climate and the 2024 elections, Arizona just might represent the perfect storm of dramatic consequences: It’s one of the states most severely impacted by climate change, a strong majority of voters share climate concerns, climate issues dominate political debate in the state, it’s a battleground state that could help decide the presidential race, and its Legislature is so narrowly divided that it could easily flip from Republican to Democratic control."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Capital & Main [18], 06/10/2024
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"Man In Mexico Dies In First Known Human Case Of H5N2 Bird Flu Variant" [19]

"A 59-year-old male resident of Mexico died after being infected with a bird flu subtype never before confirmed to have spread to humans, the World Health Organization said Wednesday."

Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [21]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [24]
Mexico [25]
Source: Washington Post [26], 06/07/2024
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"IEA Expects Global Clean Energy Investment To Hit $2 Trillion In 2024" [27]

"Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit $2 trillion this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency report showed."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Public [15]
International [24]
Source: Reuters [32], 06/07/2024
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Calif. Oil Town Chose Oil-Tied Firm to Review Impacts of a Drilling Permit [33]

"Signal Hill Petroleum spent millions to overturn California’s landmark law protecting neighborhoods from oil drilling. Now it wants to drill dozens of new wells in a city established a century ago to avoid taxes on oil development."

Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [34]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [35]
Public [15]
California [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 06/07/2024
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Mich. Bottled Water Company Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons Free [38]

"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had pledged to crack down on bottled water companies taking water at the same time Flint, Michigan, faced a water crisis. Six years later and in her second term, little has changed."

Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Source: ProPublica [42], 06/07/2024
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"EPA Balked At TVA’s Fossil Fuel Plant, Then Stepped Aside" [43]

"Top EPA officials supported a rebuke of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s environmental review of a gas-fueled power plant this spring, but they backed off when the electric utility ignored their criticism."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: E&E News [45], 06/07/2024
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Grassy Narrows First Nation Sues Ontario, Canada Over Mercury [46]

"A First Nation in northwestern Ontario that has faced decades of mercury poisoning is suing the provincial and federal governments, arguing they've failed to protect its treaty rights."

Chemicals [47]
Consumer [48]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [49]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Pollution [35]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [15]
Canada [51]
Source: CBC News [52], 06/07/2024
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Lawsuits from Citizens and States Targeting Plastic Pollution Pile Up [53]

"New litigation from state AG offices raises the stakes in court battles focused on fighting greenwashing and misleading claims about recycling."

Chemicals [47]
Consumer [48]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [35]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 06/07/2024
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Secretive Court Has Awarded Over $100bn Public Money To Fossil Firms: Study [55]

"Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money".

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [35]
Public [15]
International [24]
Source: Guardian [56], 06/07/2024
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Paris Is Aiming For The Most Sustainable Olympics Yet. Plan Not Perfect [57]

"Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organizers made about where to hold each sport, sending surfing competitions to the other side of the world — in the Pacific waters of Tahiti — provoked the strongest reactions. Tahitians and others railed against the building of a new viewing tower on Teahupo’o reef because of fears it would hurt marine life."

Activism [58]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Journalism & Media [59]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [15]
International [24]
Europe [60]
Source: AP [61], 06/07/2024
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"Nepal’s Honey Gatherers Say Fewer Hives Threaten Tradition" [62]

"Aita Prasad Gurung dangled off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled the fumes from a fire set to drive them from their homes."

Biodiversity [21]
Climate Change [10]
Food [63]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [23]
Public [15]
Asia [64]
Source: Reuters [65], 06/07/2024
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"UN Chief Rebukes Fossil Fuel Industry Supporters As Climate Records Break" [66]

"U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday that countries must confront not just the fossil-fuel industry, but also companies that support efforts to obstruct climate action. The U.N. chief, a longtime critic of oil and gas companies' role in driving climate change, called the industry out for spending billions on "distorting the truth, deceiving the public, and sowing doubt" about climate change, while investing just "a measly 2.5%" of its total capital on clean energy alternatives."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [59]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
International [24]
Source: Reuters [67], 06/06/2024
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"E.P.A. Moves to Limit Toxic Chemical Used in Hundreds of Products" [68]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed limits on the use of N-Methylpyrrolidone, a solvent in many products used by both consumers and workers, ranging from arts and crafts supplies to paint remover, that is linked to serious health effects."

Chemicals [47]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [69], 06/06/2024
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Oil Industry Asks Supreme Court To Block Climate Lawsuits From States [70]

"Oil and gas companies are asking the Supreme Court to block dozens of high-powered lawsuits from California to Massachusetts seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in costs related to climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: LA Times [71], 06/06/2024
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"Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fall Ill As Temperatures Soar" [72]

"In the factory where Aysha Talukder Tanisa stitches jeans and children's clothes for Western brands, the cooling system has been no match for Bangladesh's longest heatwave in 70 years. "Some of us - mostly girls - fall sick, vomiting or swooning due to the boiling heat," the 22-year-old told Context by phone from Ashulia, a town near the capital, Dhaka."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [22]
Public [15]
Asia [64]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [73], 06/06/2024
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