EJToday: Top Headlines

"Around the World, Diplomats Gird for a Trump Assault on Climate Action" [9]

"Climate negotiators from Europe, Latin America and some island nations are bracing for the potential return to the world stage of Donald J. Trump, who withdrew the United States from the fight against global warming during his first term."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Science [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 10/01/2024
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Mosquitos Spread Virus In L.A. Climate Change May Make Things Worse [17]

"Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California. Dengue, the world’s most common mosquito-borne illness, is not transmitted directly from insect to insect."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [21]
Source: LA Times [22], 10/01/2024
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EPA To Undo Approval Of Chevron Plastic-Based Fuels Likely To Cause Cancer [23]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency is planning to withdraw and reconsider its approval for Chevron to produce 18 plastic-based fuels, including some that an internal agency assessment found are highly likely to cause cancer."

Chemicals [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ProPublica [27], 10/01/2024
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"Feud Erupts Between Fla. Officials Over Proposed Trash Incineration Plant" [28]

"Residents of two south Florida counties are feuding over the proposed construction of a huge trash incineration plant that environmentalists say will subject thousands of people to toxic fumes and a risk of polluted drinking water."

Air [29]
Chemicals [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [30]
Waste [31]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Guardian [33], 10/01/2024
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Firefly May Blink Out As US Seeks To List It As Endangered For First Time [34]

"Bethany Beach firefly, found in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, faces dangers to habitat because of climate change"

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: Guardian [38], 10/01/2024
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Death Toll Rises From Helene While Supplies Are Rushed To N.C., Fla. [39]

"Authorities struggled to get water and other supplies to isolated, flood-stricken areas across the U.S. Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene as the death toll from the storm rose. A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed due to the storm, and several other fatalities reported in North Carolina Sunday pushed the overall death toll to at least 91 people across several states."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Infrastructure [41]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: AP [42], 09/30/2024
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"Helene Dumps Rain on Millions of US Homes That Lack Flood Insurance" [43]

"On Thursday night Helene crashed into Florida’s coast as a Category 4 hurricane. ... The disaster underscores Americans’ dangerously low levels of flood insurance coverage, especially away from coastal areas."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [40]
Economy & Business [44]
People & Population [45]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Bloomberg Green [46], 09/30/2024
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"Leonard Leo-Linked Group Attacking Efforts To Educate Judges On Climate" [47]

"A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Science [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [48], 09/30/2024
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Residents Near Atlanta Evacuate Due To A Chemical Plant Fire [49]

"Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could be seen from miles away."

Chemicals [24]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Pollution [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: AP [50], 09/30/2024
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"End Of An Era As Britain’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuts Down" [51]

"Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire will generate electricity for the last time on Monday after powering the UK for 57 years."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Public [13]
Europe [52]
Source: Guardian [53], 09/30/2024
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We Made An Emergency Alert Guide To Help Calif. Make One For Your State. [54]

"CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state."

Disasters [40]
Infrastructure [41]
Journalism & Media [55]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: CalMatters [56], 09/30/2024
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"If Trump Wins The Election, This Is What's At Stake" [57]

"Imagine, for a moment, oil and gas infrastructure carving up Alaska’s far northern tundra, a refuge for migrating caribou and polar bears. Copper-nickel mines on the doorstep of one of the largest wilderness areas east of the Rockies, a nearly 1.1m-acre (450,000-hectare) expanse of pristine lakes and forests full of loons, wolves and moose. Or uranium and coal exploration in once-protected landscapes, including areas bordering the Grand Canyon."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [58], 09/30/2024
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As Logging Intensifies Wildfires, Wet’suwet’en Fight To Protect Old Growth [59]

"Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas Tl’aat Twah and is planning how to protect it permanently."

Environmental Justice [60]
Forests [61]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [45]
Public [13]
Canada [62]
Source: Mongabay [63], 09/30/2024
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Reporter Who Revealed Deforestation In Cambodia Now Charged Himself [64]

"A journalist who covered the land grab and deforestation of a community forest by a mining company has himself been charged with deforestation."

Forests [61]
Journalism & Media [55]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
Asia [65]
Source: Mongabay [66], 09/30/2024
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"Newsom Signs Bill To Ban Octopus Farming In California" [67]

"Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California."

Biodiversity [18]
Fish & Fisheries [68]
Food [69]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Water & Oceans [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [13]
California [21]
Source: LA Times [70], 09/30/2024
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