EJToday: Top Headlines

"Outrage Over Fresh Chemical Leak At Shell Plastics Plant" [9]

"When Shell Chemical Appalachia announced the start of a massive plastics manufacturing facility last November in western Pennsylvania, [it] ... touted the company’s “strong and innovative safety focus.” But now, just six months later, the plant has been the site of multiple malfunctions, including the leakage of benzene, a known carcinogen, along with other pollutants last month."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [16]
Source: The New Lede [17], 05/03/2023
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Enviros Want FTC Green Guides to Shun ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste [18]

"The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn’t recycling and isn’t green."

Air [19]
Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [13]
Waste [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 05/03/2023
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"Climate-Hit Wetlands Lay Bare Britain's Biodiversity Struggle" [23]

"As seagulls circled above and tourists watched in confusion, Duncan Holmes steered his boat through thousands of dead fish bobbing at the surface of the River Thurne in east England."

Biodiversity [24]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [25]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
Europe [29]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [30], 05/03/2023
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"The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t." [31]

"The agency is mandated to safeguard the environment from damage caused by communication infrastructure. But when companies want to add new cell phone towers, build on protected land or launch satellites, the agency typically does little or nothing."

Biodiversity [24]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Politics [25]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: ProPublica [34], 05/03/2023
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"Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming" [35]

"In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the false claims could no longer make money on its platforms, including YouTube."

Climate Change [36]
Environmental Politics [25]
Journalism & Media [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [38], 05/03/2023
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"Toxic Vinyl Chloride Is A Widespread Environmental Injustice" [39]

"Vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical released in the February train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, contaminates many communities in the U.S. due to pollution from plastics manufacturing plants, according to a new report."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [40]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: EHN [41], 05/03/2023
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"They Pollute. You Pay (Literally)." [42]

"How regular taxpayers are subsidizing the ultra-wealthy's use of climate-polluting private jets."

"Just 70 miles south of Pittsburgh in rural Farmington, Pennsylvania, there is a luxury resort called Nemacolin. Best known as the lavish location where ABC filmed The Bachelor during pandemic lockdowns, the 2,000-acre property hosts three hotels, seven eateries, a casino, two spas, and two golf courses. It also has a private airstrip for guests to land their jets.
Air [19]
Climate Change [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [40]
Infrastructure [33]
Transportation [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: HEATED [44], 05/03/2023
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"Supreme Court to Mull Voiding Chevron Ruling on Agency Power" [45]

"The US Supreme Court will consider overturning a decades-old legal doctrine that has given federal regulators broad power to define their authority, accepting an appeal that aims to put new constraints on environmental, consumer-protection and financial-watchdog agencies."

Environmental Politics [25]
Government [46]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 05/02/2023
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"Many California Hospitals Are Near Wildfire Danger Zones, Study Says" [48]

"Wildfires regularly sweep through California, destroying forests and threatening homes. But a recent study shows an unexpected danger of the fires: They can shut down, or prevent access to, hospitals and other inpatient facilities."

Climate Change [36]
Disasters [49]
Environmental Health [12]
Forests [50]
Health [51]
Infrastructure [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [52]
Source: Washington Post [53], 05/02/2023
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"Navajo Nation, Activists Feel Cut Out As Company Plans Uranium Mining [54]

"When a foreign company started exploratory drilling for the possible return of uranium mining near Church Rock, community members say they were not informed in advance."

Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [25]
Natural Resources [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [56]
Source: NM Political Report [57], 05/02/2023
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Climate Change Is Walloping US Farms. Can Farm Bill Create Solutions? [58]

"Although it seems like everyone in D.C. is buzzing about a “climate farm bill,” some of the most impactful changes, including crop diversification and shifting diets from meat toward plants, are barely on the negotiating table."

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [36]
Consumer [60]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [25]
Food [61]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Civil Eats [62], 05/02/2023
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"Environmental Groups Sue U.S. Over SpaceX Launch License For Texas" [63]

"Conservation groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, challenging its approval of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk's SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge in South Texas without requiring greater environmental study."

Disasters [49]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Technology [64]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [56]
Source: Reuters [65], 05/02/2023
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"Orbiting Methane ‘Speed Cameras’ Are Catching Polluters in the Act" [66]

"Think of them as speed cameras, but for methane. Just like roadside instruments used to identify drivers breaking traffic rules, new powerful satellites are starting to catch oil and gas operators releasing the planet-warming gas into the atmosphere."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [36]
Pollution [13]
Technology [64]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [67]
Source: Bloomberg Green [68], 05/02/2023
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Brazil’s Lula Recognizes Six Indigenous Lands, And Says More To Come [69]

"During the largest gathering of Indigenous people in Brazil, President Lula recognized six Indigenous lands, resuming the demarcation process which stalled for over six years under the two former presidents."

Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [14]
South America [70]
Source: Mongabay [71], 05/02/2023
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"California Condors In Arizona, Utah Died From Avian Flu" [72]

"Twenty California condors in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died since March, and half of the endangered birds tested positive for a strain of avian flu, according to authorities."

Biodiversity [24]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [73]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [74], 05/02/2023
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