EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Targets 400 Hires For Climate, Infrastructure Laws In 2024" [9]

"EPA is pushing to hire for hundreds of job openings this year as the agency strives to fulfill its expanded mandate under President Joe Biden’s trademark climate and infrastructure laws."

Climate Change [10]
Government [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [15], 02/08/2024
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Seafood Firm Wants To Farm Octopus. Activists Say They're Too Smart For That [16]

"Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm octopuses to harvest them for seafood, the plan sparked an uproar."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Fish & Fisheries [19]
Food [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [13]
Europe [24]
Source: NPR [25], 02/08/2024
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The Industry ‘Scandal’ That Might Upend How America Builds Houses [26]

"Fossil fuel companies are trying to strip a series of climate-friendly measures out of the latest round of model building codes used to regulate construction virtually everywhere in the United States."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Planning & Growth [30]
Pollution [31]
Technology [32]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: HuffPost [33], 02/07/2024
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"‘Symbol Of Polarisation’: EU Scraps Plans To Halve Use Of Pesticides" [34]

"The European Commission is shelving plans to cut pesticide use and is taking the pressure off agriculture in its latest emissions recommendations, as farmers around Europe continue protests demanding higher prices for their products and an easing of EU environment rules."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [35]
Environmental Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Public [13]
Europe [24]
Source: Guardian [37], 02/07/2024
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"‘In A Word, Horrific’: Trump’s Extreme Anti-Environment Blueprint" [38]

"The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme for the environment than his first, according to interviews with multiple Trump allies and advisers."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [28]
Government [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [40], 02/07/2024
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Mediterranean Getting Hotter, More Acidic, And Sea Levels Are Rising: Report [41]

"The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing higher temperatures and acidity, rising sea levels, and pollution by plastic and even mercury according to a report published Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [42]
Natural Resources [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
Africa [43]
Europe [24]
Source: Times of Israel [44], 02/07/2024
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"Green Amendments Gain Traction in More States Ahead of Elections" [45]

"A new wave of state legislators are pursuing the constitutional right to a safe environment, which attorneys say could strengthen climate lawsuits and policy if interpreted correctly. But the effectiveness of those amendments hinges on their legal language and other details."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [46], 02/07/2024
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"The Changing Focus of Climate Denial: From Science to Scientists" [47]

"The scientist Michael Mann is challenging attacks on his work in a defamation suit that’s taken 12 years to come to trial."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [28]
Journalism & Media [48]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Science [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [50], 02/07/2024
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Category 6? As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want Bigger Hurricane Category [51]

"A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [52]
Science [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [53]
Source: AP [54], 02/07/2024
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FDA Move To Ban Formaldehyde In Hair Straighteners Called Not Enough [55]

"In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products."

Chemicals [35]
Consumer [56]
Environmental Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [57]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: KFF Health News [58], 02/07/2024
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Images Raise Hopes Of Return Of Wild Jaguars To The US [59]

"Jaguars once roamed throughout the American south-west, but they were hunted to local extinction by the 1960s. In the 1990s, the elusive cat began to occasionally reappear in the rugged Sky Islands mountain ranges in New Mexico and Arizona. Now, a series of sightings in the region over the past year marks the endangered predators’ tentative return."

Biodiversity [18]
Wildlife [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [60]
Source: Guardian [61], 02/07/2024
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"Keep PFAS Out Of Your Sex Life" [62]

"New testing finds evidence of “forever chemicals” in two types of condoms and one lubricant. The good news? The vast majority appear PFAS-free."

Chemicals [35]
Consumer [56]
Environmental Health [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: EHN [63], 02/07/2024
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"Atmospheric River Lashes California With Heavy Rain And Wind" [64]

"A firehose of rain has parked over Southern California, worsening the risk of flooding. At least two people have died as a result of falling trees and more than 16 million people are under a rare high risk of excessive rainfall, with downtown Los Angeles receiving 75% of its annual rainfall in only the second month of 2024."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [52]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [65]
Source: CNN [66], 02/06/2024
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"Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price." [67]

"They vowed to fix water woes and save cities millions. But a Times investigation found the deals racked up debt and left many worse off than before."

Consumer [56]
Disasters [52]
Economy & Business [68]
Environmental Justice [39]
Government [11]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [57]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [69]
Source: NYTimes [70], 02/06/2024
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"Biden Confronts Unfinished Business With Ohio Train Wreck" [71]

"Stalled efforts to reform the nation’s rail safety and chemical oversight as well as lingering toxic exposure concerns will loom over President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Ohio town devastated by last year’s train wreck."

Chemicals [35]
Disasters [52]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [72]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [73]
Source: E&E News [74], 02/06/2024
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