EJToday: Top Headlines

"FERC Approves Power Plant Rules To Fight Extreme Weather" [9]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved new rules Thursday to help protect the electricity system during severe winter weather, but grid experts said more action is needed to prevent deadly power outages like those that occurred during Winter Storm Uri."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [18], 02/21/2023
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"Weather Whiplash: How Climate Change Killed Thousands of Migratory Birds" [19]

"When dead birds fall from the sky, you know something is wrong. But finding out exactly what killed them isn’t as easy."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [12]
Wildlife [21]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: The Revelator [23], 02/21/2023
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Biggest Calif. Environmental Cleanup Leaves Lead Contamination, Angst [24]

"California's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup has failed to properly remove lead pollution from some homes and neighborhoods near a notorious battery recycler in southeast Los Angeles County, leaving residents at continued risk, a Los Angeles Times investigation shows."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [12]
Pollution [26]
Public [16]
California [27]
Source: LA Times [28], 02/21/2023
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"How Russia’s War Shattered Global Energy Routes" [29]

"After a year of fighting, Europe’s gas reserves are bulging and its leaders are moving forward with ambitious plans to green their economy. But it’s starkly different thousands of miles away, where poor Asian countries are scrounging for fuel after liquefied natural gas cargoes were rerouted to wealthy European markets."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Military [30]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: E&E News [31], 02/21/2023
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"Four Rail-Borne Risks Moving Through American Communities" [32]

"Communities alongside rail lines had two more close calls this week as freight trains carrying hazardous materials derailed in Houston and Detroit."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [12]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Transportation [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [34], 02/21/2023
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"State And Federal Funds Fuel More Wildlife Crossings" [35]

"Wildlife crossings are getting more go signs, on Capitol Hill and beyond."

Biodiversity [20]
Infrastructure [14]
Natural Resources [36]
Transportation [33]
Wildlife [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [37], 02/21/2023
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Pythons Snacking on GPS-Wearing Opossums That Give Up Their Locations [38]

"After nearly five months of waiting, an alarm activated on Michael Cove’s radio, a sign his study was working. To hunt pythons, an invasive predator in the Florida Keys, Cove and fellow researchers have been strapping GPS collars to opossums and raccoons."

Biodiversity [20]
Technology [39]
Wildlife [21]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Washington Post [41], 02/21/2023
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"UN Ocean Treaty Talks Resume With Goal To Save Biodiversity" [42]

"United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world’s marine biodiversity."

Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: AP [45], 02/20/2023
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"Before Ohio Derailment, Norfolk Southern Lobbied Against Safety Rules" [46]

"The Trump administration abandoned rail safety rules that were pursued during the Obama era. The Biden administration is trying to revive some of them."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [47]
Environmental Politics [43]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Transportation [33]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [48]
Source: Washington Post [49], 02/20/2023
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"Biden E.P.A. Reinstates Mercury Limits Weakened Under Trump" [50]

"The Biden administration on Friday restored the legal foundation of an Obama-era regulation governing mercury, a pollutant from power plants that can damage brain development in babies and cause heart disease in adults."

Air [51]
Chemicals [25]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [47]
Environmental Justice [52]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [53], 02/20/2023
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"Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’" [54]

"Recent climate projections may be underestimating the pace of global warming in an atmosphere damaged by greenhouse gas emissions, because the interaction of powerful climate feedback loops that can accelerate warming are not well-represented in key climate models, an international team of scientists concluded in a study published today in the journal One Earth. "

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [12]
Science [55]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 02/20/2023
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Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive [57]

"Cotton farmers in Texas suffered record losses amid heat and drought last year, new data shows. It’s an example of how global warming is a “secret driver of inflation.”"

Agriculture [58]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [59]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [60], 02/20/2023
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Group Is Spreading Misinformation To Stop Solar Projects In Rural America [61]

"Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [59]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [43]
Infrastructure [14]
Journalism & Media [62]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Floodlight/NPR [63], 02/20/2023
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"Water Utilities Brace for Imminent EPA Proposal on PFAS in Water" [64]

"Drinking water systems are preparing for the possibility that the EPA will try to codify its 2022 health advisories suggesting no amount of PFAS substances are safe, water attorneys say."

Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [47]
Environmental Politics [43]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Technology [39]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [65], 02/20/2023
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"Paleotsunami Detectives Hunt for Ancient Disasters" [66]

"Gigantic tsunamis have been decimating coastlines since time immemorial. We ignore these prehistoric warnings at our own peril."

Disasters [12]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Hakai [67], 02/20/2023
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