EJToday: Top Headlines

"Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition" [9]

"The Chilean industry’s expansion has drawn repeated challenges from environmentalists and Indigenous people of the region, and prompted calls for a moratorium."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
South America [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 08/14/2024
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Environmental Justice Sets Harris Apart From Biden And Draws GOP Fire [18]

"Vice President Kamala Harris has spent more than a decade advocating for Black, Hispanic and impoverished communities struggling with pollution — an insurgent segment of the environmental movement that never entirely warmed up to President Joe Biden."

Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Politico [22], 08/14/2024
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What Happens When A So-Called Climate Solution Risks Your Community’s Safety? [23]

"In the St. Charles Parish neighborhood, only a tall green chain-link fence stands between a block of homes and the future site of a facility that may, among other things, store carbon in efforts to limit planetary heating."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [19]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: Vox [28], 08/14/2024
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"US To Expand Bird-Flu Testing Of Beef In Slaughterhouses" [29]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday it will expand bird-flu testing of beef entering the food supply as part of its response to the ongoing outbreak among dairy cattle, adding that U.S. beef and dairy products remain safe to consume."

Agriculture [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Food [32]
Government [33]
Science [34]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Reuters [35], 08/14/2024
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"Trump On Climate Change: ‘You’ll Have More Oceanfront Property’" [36]

"Former President Trump on Monday night said climate change is not “the biggest threat” and claimed it would create “more oceanfront property.”

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [38]
Journalism & Media [39]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [40]
Planning & Growth [41]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [42], 08/14/2024
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Heat Contributed to 47,000 Deaths in Europe Last Year. Relief Programs Helped [43]

"More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [31]
Public [15]
Europe [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 08/13/2024
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"How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?" [46]

"Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [37]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [47]
Source: NYTimes [48], 08/13/2024
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"Wildfire Fanned By Gales Menaces Athens Suburbs As Residents Flee" [49]

"Greece's worst wildfire this year spread into the Athens suburbs on Monday, forcing hundreds of people to flee as it torched trees, homes and cars and choked busy roads with smoke and ash."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [37]
Forests [50]
Public [15]
Europe [44]
Source: Reuters [51], 08/13/2024
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"In Pennsylvania’s Competitive Senate Race, Fracking Takes Center Stage" [52]

"The contest between Republican Dave McCormick and Democrat Bob Casey reveals the complicated politics of fracking in a battleground state."

Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [53]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 08/13/2024
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Drought-Related Pollution Disproportionately Affects California Latinos [55]

"Drought-driven drinking water contamination is disproportionately affecting members of California’s Latino communities, a new study has found."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [19]
Infrastructure [38]
Pollution [56]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
California [57]
Source: The Hill [58], 08/13/2024
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"Second Major Solar Storm Of Year Hits Earth As Sunspot Cycle Intensifies" [59]

"Federal forecasters are warning of a severe solar storm through Tuesday that potentially threatens satellites, orbital communications and some infrastructure."

Technology [60]
Public [15]
International [47]
Source: The Hill [61], 08/13/2024
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Project 2025 Video Says Feds Should ‘Eradicate’ Climate Change References [62]

"A training video associated with Project 2025 — a controversial playbook for a future conservative presidency by the right-wing Heritage Foundation — calls for eliminating references to climate change across the federal government."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [20]
Government [33]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [63], 08/13/2024
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"How Climate Change Could Make Pesticides Even Deadlier" [64]

"As this year’s temperatures continue to break records, farmworkers who toil in the heat remain one of the groups most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses. But another element of their jobs is making extreme heat even more dangerous: pesticide drift."

Agriculture [30]
Air [65]
Chemicals [66]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [19]
Pollution [56]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Mother Jones [67], 08/13/2024
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Wash. State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites [68]

"A company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington has paused permitting activities on the project amid concerns about impacts to Indigenous cultural sites." "The decision comes after an investigation by High Country News and ProPublica found that a land survey funded by the developer omitted more than a dozen sites of archaeological or cultural significance."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [19]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [69]
Source: High Country News [70], 08/13/2024
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"Blue Crab Invasion Upends Italy’s Culinary Traditions And Ecology" [71]

"The blue crabs crossed the Atlantic as stowaways, and with no natural predators they’re overtaking Italy’s marine ecosystem."

Biodiversity [10]
Consumer [72]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Europe [44]
Source: Washington Post [73], 08/13/2024
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