EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Ride in a Chemical-Sniffing Van Shows How Heat Amps Up Pollution" [9]

"In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 06/25/2024
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"Climate-Proofing India's Daily Bread: The Race For Resilient Wheat" [18]

"Too hot, too dry, too wet; as extreme weather threatens food security, the race is on to get new seed varieties in the ground"

Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [12]
Food [20]
People & Population [21]
Technology [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
Asia [24]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [25], 06/25/2024
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Underfunded NYC Parks Dept. Losing Fight Against Invasives, Disrepair, Climate [26]

"Mayor Adams’ proposed budget cuts may place an outsized burden on park conservancies and small volunteer groups. With less than 1 percent of the city budget spent on parks, they’re finding it harder and harder to keep up."

Activism [27]
Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [30]
Infrastructure [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [33]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 06/25/2024
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"How Biden’s Promise To Coal Country Became A Warning For Democrats" [36]

"A fading coal town in Pennsylvania is struggling to replace the jobs and money that the fossil fuel industry once offered."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [37]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [21]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Source: Washington Post [40], 06/25/2024
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"Ash Trees Are Dying Everywhere. This Is Why." [41]

"A bug is going to make your summers hotter".

Biodiversity [28]
Disasters [42]
Forests [43]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Sierra [44], 06/25/2024
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"Environmental Protests: Interview With UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst" [45]

"The repression that environmental activists using peaceful civil disobedience are facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights, according to U.N. special rapporteur Michel Forst."

Activism [27]
Environmental Justice [46]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [49]
Source: Mongabay [50], 06/25/2024
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Billions Of People Just Felt The Deadly Intensity Of Climate-Fueled Heat Waves [51]

"Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [49]
Source: Washington Post [52], 06/24/2024
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"Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of 'Advanced' Plastic Recycling" [53]

"The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a “solution” that works like magic. Don't be fooled."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [54]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [47]
Pollution [14]
Technology [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: ProPublica [55], 06/24/2024
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"Bayer Lobbies Congress To Help Fight Lawsuits Tying Roundup To Cancer" [56]

"The biotech giant Bayer has lobbied Congress over the past year to advance legislation that could shield the company from billions of dollars in lawsuits, part of a national campaign to defeat claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer in people who use it frequently."

Agriculture [19]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [57], 06/24/2024
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"Fees to Film on Public Lands Tossed for Nonprofit as Suit Proceeds" [58]

"A federal judge temporarily blocked commercial filming fees on public lands for an outdoor recreation nonprofit but allowed the fees to remain in place for others while a lawsuit plays out."

Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [59], 06/24/2024
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Hawaii Settles Lawsuit From Youths Over Climate Change. Here’s What To Know. [60]

"About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state’s transportation system over the next 21 years."

Activism [27]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
Source: AP [62], 06/24/2024
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"New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect" [63]

"Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss."

Agriculture [19]
Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Studies [64]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [14]
Science [65]
Wildlife [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [66], 06/24/2024
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Florida Reefs Are In Trouble. Is The Answer Coral From The Caribbean? [67]

"Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered elkhorn coral have mysteriously defied warming oceans fueled by climate change to blanket the reef with healthy, cocoa-brown colonies branching toward the water’s surface like antlers."

Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [12]
Fish & Fisheries [68]
Natural Resources [32]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [49]
Central America & the Caribbean [69]
Source: NPR [70], 06/24/2024
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Athletes Warn ‘Hottest Games On Record’ May Threaten Lives At Paris Olympics [71]

"The Paris Olympics could be the hottest Games on record, with leading athletes warning that the intense heat forecast for competition could lead to athletes collapsing or – in a worst-case scenario – dying in competition."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [15]
International [49]
Source: Guardian [72], 06/24/2024
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"Behind the Push to Re-brand LNG as 'Green'" [73]

"Earlier this month, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee sent a letter to President Biden, blaming rising gas prices on his administration’s energy policies and calling on him to back an industry wishlist that includes repealing air pollution standards, increasing oil and gas leasing, and lifting the temporary pause on permits for new LNG export terminals."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Drilled [74], 06/24/2024
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