EJToday: Top Headlines

"Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals" [9]

"The world’s top fossil-fuel producing nations are still planning to increase their output of oil, gas and coal far beyond what the world’s climate targets would allow, according to a new United Nations report."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [15], 11/09/2023
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Farm Bill Faces Battle As GOP Pushes To Strip Climate, SNAP Funding [16]

"Congress appears unlikely to pass a new farm bill by the end of this year amid standoffs over Republicans’ push to extend subsidies to three specific Southern crops — at the potential cost of billions in both food aid and popular farm conservation programs."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [22], 11/09/2023
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"Alaska Natives Say Secretary Haaland Is Stonewalling Them" [23]

"Alaska Native leaders are fuming at Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, saying she has ignored or rejected at least eight of their invitations for in-person meetings about the administration’s energy policies impacting their communities."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [25]
Source: E&E News [26], 11/09/2023
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"Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change" [27]

"The Natural Resources Defense Council is eliminating its longstanding program promoting nuclear safety and cleanup as donors focus on the climate crisis." "A significant shift in donor contributions to nonprofits fighting climate change in recent years has left some of the nation’s biggest environmental organizations facing critical shortfalls in programs on toxic chemicals, radioactive contamination and wildlife protection."

Activism [28]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [19]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [30], 11/09/2023
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Drought In Syria, Iraq And Iran Caused By Climate Change, Study Finds [31]

"A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change, a new study found."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [12]
Middle East [34]
Source: AP [35], 11/09/2023
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"Leave It To Beavers? Not If You’re A Wolf." [36]

"This is what happens when an apex predator collides with an ecosystem engineer."

"Beavers are influential. By cutting trees and damming streams, these rodents change the world around them, raising water levels and creating habitats for diverse plants, insects, fish and more. They are some of the world’s best-known ecosystem engineers, a term for species that produce outsize effects on their environments.
Biodiversity [18]
Infrastructure [37]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: NYTimes [39], 11/09/2023
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Cheetahs Become More Nocturnal On Hot Days: Climate Impacts On Predator [40]

"Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds. Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that sets them up for more potential conflicts with mostly nocturnal competing predators such as lions and leopards, say the authors of research published Wednesday ... ."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Wildlife [41]
Public [12]
International [14]
Africa [42]
Source: AP [43], 11/09/2023
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US Chemical Industry Likely Spent $110M To Thwart PFAS Legislation: Study [44]

"The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around “forever chemicals”, a new analysis of federal lobbying documents has found."

Chemicals [45]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [47], 11/08/2023
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"US Agency Proposes Allowing Carbon Capture Projects In National Forests" [48]

"The U.S. Forest Service wants to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on national forest land, according to a proposed rule published by the agency on Friday"

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [19]
Forests [49]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [50], 11/08/2023
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India Court Tells States To Stop Crop Burning Amid Hazardous New Delhi Air [51]

"India's Supreme Court ordered authorities in the states surrounding New Delhi on Tuesday to stop farmers burning crop residue, as the air quality from smog engulfing the world's most polluted capital during the past week reached hazardous levels."

Agriculture [17]
Air [52]
Environmental Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Public [12]
Asia [53]
Source: Reuters [54], 11/08/2023
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EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water [55]

"The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts."

Chemicals [45]
Consumer [56]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: ProPublica [57], 11/08/2023
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"Lawsuit: Southern Co. Lied To DOE Over Kemper CCS Plant" [58]

"A former employee of the utility said she was ordered to prepare documents with false information on the now-canceled Kemper carbon capture project."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [59]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [60]
Source: E&E News [61], 11/08/2023
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Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River [62]

"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Source: EHN [64], 11/08/2023
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"Greenland’s Ice Shelves Hold Back Sea Level Rise. There Are Just 5 Left." [65]

"The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the Northern Hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline, according to new scientific research published Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [12]
International [14]
Antarctica & Arctic [66]
Source: Washington Post [67], 11/08/2023
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Baltimore, Maryland Dept. of Environment Settle Lawsuits Over Sewage Plants [68]

"Environmental advocates hope an agreement negotiated earlier this month by Baltimore City, the state Department of the Environment and the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore to upgrade the city’s two wastewater treatment plants will help meet the state’s Chesapeake Bay restoration goals."

Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [24]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [46]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 11/08/2023
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