EJToday: Top Headlines

"Birdwatch: The Invincible Swift, Effortless Master Of The Air" [9]

"May Day dawns cold and breezy, with sullen grey clouds promising rain. Hope seems very far away. But then, a distant dark streak scythes through the skies over the Avalon Marshes, stiff-winged, direct and determined. A single swift, my first of the year."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
Europe [14]
Source: Guardian [15], 05/09/2024
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From Brazil And Houston To Asia, Extreme Weather Seems Nearly Everywhere [16]

"In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level. Some climate scientists say they are hard pressed to remember when so much of the world has had its weather on overdrive at the same time."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [13]
International [22]
Source: AP [23], 05/08/2024
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US Financial System Helps Shelter Profits From Environmental Organized Crime [24]

"Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year — and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits."

Biodiversity [10]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Health [19]
Forests [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
International [22]
Source: The Hill [29], 05/08/2024
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"Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers" [30]

"The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Infrastructure [32]
Technology [33]
Transportation [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [35], 05/08/2024
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"Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity" [36]

"They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Infrastructure [32]
Technology [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NYTimes [37], 05/08/2024
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"U.S. Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research" [38]

"The White House has unveiled tighter rules for research on potentially dangerous microbes and toxins, in an effort to stave off laboratory accidents that could unleash a pandemic."

Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Studies [39]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [40]
Technology [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NYTimes [41], 05/08/2024
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Renewables Make Up The Lion’s Share Of New Electric Generation EIA Finds [42]

"Rising US demand for electricity is being met almost entirely by renewables, a new federal report has found. The new numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggest that the U.S. isn’t moving fast enough to reach the Biden administration’s climate targets."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: The Hill [43], 05/08/2024
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"Nuclear Waste At Center Of Testy Nevada Senate Race" [44]

"Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain."

Environmental Politics [45]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [46]
Waste [47]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Source: The Hill [49], 05/08/2024
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Scientists Are Learning The Basic Building Blocks Of Sperm Whale Language [50]

"Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them."

Biodiversity [10]
Journalism & Media [51]
Science [40]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
International [22]
Source: AP [52], 05/08/2024
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"After 13 Years, No End in Sight for Caribbean Sargassum Invasion" [53]

"The growing invasion of sargassum in the Caribbean has impacted the quality of life of the islands' residents. But local governments have failed to coordinate an international response to problem."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [13]
Central America & the Caribbean [55]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 05/08/2024
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Nuns Aim to Stop Financing of Fossil Fuel Development on Indigenous Lands [57]

"Sister Susan Francois didn’t expect to get emotional discussing her congregation’s shareholder resolution at Citibank last week, but as she spoke to a room full of supporters about the role of the Catholic Church in Western colonization, tears sprang to her eyes."

Activism [58]
Environmental Justice [59]
Natural Resources [11]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [60]
Public [13]
International [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 05/08/2024
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"DDT Found In Deep-Sea Fish Raises Troubling Concerns For Food Web" [62]

"For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles." "Now, in a highly anticipated study, researchers have identified tiny zooplankton and mid-to-deep-water fish as potential links between the contaminated sediment and the greater ecosystem."

Agriculture [63]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [64]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Studies [39]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [66]
Source: LA Times [67], 05/07/2024
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Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. Regulators Let Them Walk Away. [68]

"The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state."

Disasters [18]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [54]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [69]
Source: ProPublica/Capital & Main [70], 05/07/2024
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"Smothered by Seaweed: Sargassum Wreaks Havoc on Caribbean Ecosystems" [71]

"Its growth driven to epic levels by climate change and fertilizer runoff, sargassum puts dozens of species — and people — at risk."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [13]
Central America & the Caribbean [55]
Source: The Revelator [72], 05/07/2024
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"Chinese Fishing Fleets In Indian Ocean Accused Of Abuses" [73]

"A recent investigation has revealed evidence that China's distant-water fishing fleet, the world's biggest in scale, commits environmental and labor abuses in the southwest Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa."

Environmental Justice [59]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [13]
International [22]
Source: DW [74], 05/07/2024
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