EJToday: Top Headlines

"Alaska Cancels Snow Crab Harvest Again Due To Population Concerns" [9]

"The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday [Oct. 6] it will again cancel this year's Bering Sea snow crab harvest. Bristol Bay red king crab will re-open."

Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [14]
Source: King 5 [15], 10/18/2023
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Little-Known Pollution Rule Keeps The Air Dirty For Millions Of Americans [16]

"A legal loophole has allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency to strike pollution from clean air tallies in more than 70 counties, enabling local regulators to claim the air was cleaner than it really was for more than 21 million Americans."

Air [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [20], 10/18/2023
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Foul-Smelling Biofuels Plant In Southwest Dallas Is Shutting Down [21]

"A plant near homes in southwest Dallas that renders animal fat into biofuel is shutting down after The Dallas Morning News found that it appears to be operating without proper zoning. Neighbors have complained for years about the smell of dead and rotting animals that they say comes from the facility owned by Envirotein."

Air [17]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: Dallas Morning News [24], 10/18/2023
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"Saving Yellowstone for the Grizzlies" [25]

"A conservation group acquired more than 1,500 acres just north of Yellowstone National Park to stop a gold mine that they say would have upset the habitat of bears and other wildlife."

Biodiversity [26]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Source: NYTimes [29], 10/18/2023
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"Battling Desertification: Bringing Soil Back To Life In Semiarid Spain" [30]

"Southeastern Spain is experiencing the northward advance of the Sahara Desert, leading to declining rainfall, soil degradation, and climate change-induced droughts, threatening agricultural lands that have been farmed for many centuries."

Agriculture [31]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [12]
Africa [33]
Europe [34]
Source: Mongabay [35], 10/18/2023
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"Federal Government Declares 21 Species Extinct" [36]

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared 21 species extinct Monday, including 10 birds and two freshwater fish."

Biodiversity [26]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [38], 10/17/2023
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Watchdog Finds La. Honeywell Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of CFCs [39]

"U.S. chemical manufacturer Honeywell International released chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—climate super-pollutants and ozone depleting substances that are banned except for limited uses under an international environmental agreement—according to a report released Oct. 10 by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a non-profit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C."

Air [17]
Chemicals [40]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 10/17/2023
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Factory Fishing In Antarctica For Krill Threatens A Fragile Ecosystem [42]

"The Antarctic Endeavour glides across the water’s silky surface as dozens of fin whales spray rainbows from their blowholes into a fairy tale icescape of massive glaciers. But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view."

Biodiversity [26]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [12]
International [43]
Antarctica & Arctic [44]
Source: AP [45], 10/17/2023
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"In Brazil’s Amazon, Rivers Fall To Record Low Levels During Drought" [46]

"The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [47]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [12]
South America [48]
Source: AP [49], 10/17/2023
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Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution [50]

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Air [17]
Chemicals [40]
Environmental Health [51]
Environmental Justice [52]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [53], 10/17/2023
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Enviros Warn Of Intent To Sue Over Snail Species Near Nev. Lithium Mine [54]

"In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby."

Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [40]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [55]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Source: AP [56], 10/17/2023
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Lake Erie Is Full Of Algae Again Amid SW Ontario’s Exploding Greenhouse Sector [57]

"Experts say nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms could be harming Lake Erie, but Ontario’s Environment Ministry has issued very few fines for potential algae-causing infractions since 2019".

Agriculture [31]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Canada [59]
Source: The Narwhal [60], 10/17/2023
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Georgia Slave Descendants Sue Over Zoning Threatenening Island Homes [61]

"Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South’s last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities."

Environmental Justice [52]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [62]
Source: AP [63], 10/17/2023
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New York's Gas Stove Ban an 'Existential Threat,' Trade Group Lawsuit Says [64]

"Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [55]
Infrastructure [65]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [66]
Source: Earther [67], 10/17/2023
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"Home Energy Devices Hold Untapped Potential for Strained Grids" [68]

"This summer, as a historic heat wave strained Texas’ electrical grid and hiked power prices, Scott Stambush’s electricity bill went negative."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [65]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 10/17/2023
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