EJToday: Top Headlines

"California Abandons Diesel Truck Ban And Other Clean-Air Rules Before Trump" [9]

"California has decided to abandon its groundbreaking regulations phasing out diesel trucks and requiring cleaner locomotives because the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to allow the state to implement them."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Source: CalMatters [20], 01/15/2025
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"DC Sues Federal Government Over Pollution In Anacostia River" [21]

"The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, arguing it has inflicted “catastrophic harm” on the mostly poor and minority communities living along the urban waterway."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Source: AP [24], 01/15/2025
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"Indonesian Scientist Under Fire For Revealing Extent Of Illegal Tin Mining" [25]

"An Indonesian forensic scientist whose testimony has proved crucial in securing rulings against environmental violators faces a third potential lawsuit."

Environmental Studies [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [17]
Asia [28]
Australia & Oceania [29]
Source: Mongabay [30], 01/15/2025
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Maine: "Yarmouth Approves Plan To Remove Two Royal River Dams" [31]

"The Yarmouth town council voted unanimously this month to remove two town-owned dams on the Royal River and consider fish passage improvements at a stretch of rapids in between them, a historic vote more than two decades in the making."

Fish & Fisheries [32]
Infrastructure [33]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Source: Maine Monitor [35], 01/15/2025
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"A Secret Weapon In Agriculture’s Climate Fight: Ants" [36]

"Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change."

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Studies [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [41], 01/15/2025
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"An Inauguration Watch Party Aimed at Celebrating Fossil Fuels" [42]

"Harold G. Hamm, the billionaire oil and gas executive who helped bankroll Donald J. Trump’s campaign and stands to profit from his energy policies, is hosting an exclusive fossil fuel industry celebration on Inauguration Day."

Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [44], 01/14/2025
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"News Outlets Batten Down the Hatches for Trump’s Return" [45]

"Media organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [46]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [48], 01/14/2025
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"This Group Says Natural Gas Bans Hurt Minorities. It Has Gas Industry Ties." [49]

"The Energy Poverty Awareness Center, which fought climate legislation in Maryland, has ties to a group that is partly funded by oil and gas companies."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [33]
Journalism & Media [46]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Source: Washington Post [51], 01/14/2025
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"Supreme Court Rejects Climate, Lands, Wind, Air Battles" [52]

"The Supreme Court is staying out of heated legal fights over the oil industry’s responsibility to pay up for climate change, ownership of public lands in Utah, environmental review of a major offshore wind project and EPA’s crackdown on smog-forming pollution."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [53], 01/14/2025
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"States Are Preparing To Help Or Thwart Trump’s Second-Term Plans" [54]

"Many Republican state officials are aligning with Trump’s policies by pledging to help him crack down on illegal immigration, for example. Some Democratic state officials are mounting a resistance movement, looking for ways to shield their states from potential federal policies restricting abortion and transgender rights, among other things."

Environmental Politics [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [55], 01/14/2025
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Right Wing Fans Misinformation As Firefighters Battle Los Angeles Blazes [56]

"As Los Angeles firefighters battle ongoing blazes, prominent rightwing figures are spreading bigoted criticism of the response and lies about who is to blame, including that the fire is raging because of diversity within the fire department."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [57]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [46]
Science [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Source: Guardian [58], 01/14/2025
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"The California Wildfires Could Be Leaving Deeper Inequality In Their Wake" [59]

"The sight of celebrity mansions and movie landmarks reduced to ashes can make it seem like the wildfires roaring through the Los Angeles area affected a constellation of movie stars. But a drive through the charred neighborhoods around Altadena shows that the fires also burned through a remarkable haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices elsewhere."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [57]
Environmental Justice [50]
People & Population [60]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Source: AP [61], 01/14/2025
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"Wildfire Smoke From the LA Fires Is a Hidden Health Cost" [62]

"Los Angeles has experienced some of the world’s worst air quality this week as smoke from massive wildfires blankets the region and threatens the health of far more people than the fires themselves. And that will end up adding to the economic toll."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [57]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Source: Bloomberg [63], 01/14/2025
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"World’s Record Heat Is Worsening Air Pollution And Health In Global South" [64]

"2024 was the hottest year on record, producing intense, long-lasting heat waves. Climate change-intensified extreme events last year included the formation of vast heat domes — areas of high pressure that stalled and persisted above continental land masses in Asia, Africa, South and North America, and Europe."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Justice [50]
People & Population [60]
Public [17]
International [65]
Source: Mongabay [66], 01/14/2025
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"Fueling The Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Winds" [67]

"Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point."

Air [10]
Disasters [57]
Public [17]
California [19]
Source: AFP [68], 01/14/2025
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