EJToday: Top Headlines

World Spends $1.8Tn A Year On Subsidies That Harm Environment: Study [9]

"The world is spending at least $1.8tn (£1.3tn) every year on subsidies driving the annihilation of wildlife and a rise in global heating, according to a new study, prompting warnings that humanity is financing its own extinction."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Government [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 02/17/2022
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"Power Grid Upgrade Costs to Handle Extreme Weather Divide States" [17]

"Clean energy goals and resilience to extreme weather should spur the next wave of power grid upgrades, federal energy officials and state utility commissioners broadly agreed Wednesday during a meeting in Washington."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [18]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [22], 02/17/2022
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Students From 5 Top Universities Sue To Compel Fossil-Fuel Divestment [23]

"For years, they tried to convince universities that investing in fossil fuels was immoral. Now they’re telling them it’s illegal."

Activism [24]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [25], 02/17/2022
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Jordan Tries To Save Rare Red Sea Corals That Can Take Climate Change [26]

"In Jordan, researchers, activists and fishers are hopeful that their coral reefs — and the life they support — can survive climate change."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [14]
Middle East [28]
Source: Mongabay [29], 02/17/2022
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Calif. Will Put Solar Panels Over Canals to Fight Two Disasters at Once [30]

"A water and electric utility in central California will install a first-of-its-kind network of solar panels on water canals. Turlock Irrigation District (TID) has secured a $20 million grant from the state to pursue the first-in-the-nation project, which could serve a beneficial double whammy: create renewable energy and save some water in the process."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Infrastructure [31]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [14]
California [32]
Source: Earther [33], 02/17/2022
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"Tracing A Fraught And Amazing History Of American Horticulture" [34]

"When Abra Lee became the landscape manager at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, she sought some advice about how to best do the job. The answer: study the history of gardening. That led to her uncovering how Black involvement in horticulture in the U.S. bursts with incredible stories and profound expertise, intertwined with a tragic past."

Agriculture [35]
Environmental Justice [36]
People & Population [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NPR [38], 02/17/2022
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"California Returns as Climate Leader, With Help From the White House" [39]

"The Biden administration is restoring the state’s power to set its own limits on tailpipe pollution and is largely adopting the state’s rules regarding heavy trucks."

Transportation [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [41], 02/16/2022
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"US Could See a Century's Worth of Sea Rise in Just 30 Years" [42]

"America’s coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns."

Climate Change [11]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [43], 02/16/2022
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EPA Shrugs After HuffPost Investigates Toxic Gulf Chemical Dump [44]

"After a HuffPost investigation last year brought to light a vast, decades-old chemical dumping ground in the Gulf of Mexico, the Environmental Protection Agency has officially declared that the site is nothing to worry about ― without reviewing any recent scientific data or visiting the site."

Chemicals [45]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [46]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [48]
Waste [49]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: HuffPost [50], 02/16/2022
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"AP Fact Check: Biden Takes Half-Steps on Electric Vehicles" [51]

"Eager to show benefits from his policies, President Joe Biden is overstating the number of electric vehicle charging stations that would be built with his infrastructure law and claiming a speedy shift to electric in the federal fleet that isn’t so."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [52]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Transportation [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [53], 02/16/2022
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New Faces on FERC Could Help Speed a Clean Energy Transition [54]

"With two Biden appointees, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is more likely to favor Democrats, who want it to respond to the booming demand for renewable energy."

Planning & Growth [55]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 02/16/2022
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"Biden Administration Promises to Buy ‘Clean’ Industrial Materials" [57]

"A new initiative aims to reduce emissions from steel, cement, aluminum and other materials used in the industrial sector, which generates about a third of the nation’s greenhouse gases."

"WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday will set out a strategy for buying “clean,” lower-emissions steel, cement, aluminum and other industrial materials for federal agencies and projects, part of its effort to reduce carbon emissions from industrial manufacturing.
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Government [13]
Transportation [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [58], 02/16/2022
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"GOP Boycotts Committee Vote On Federal Reserve Nominees" [59]

"Republicans today blocked the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin and several other Federal Reserve nominees, creating confirmation chaos for the pro-climate bank regulator pick in what Democrats labeled a “smear campaign.”"

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [52]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [60], 02/16/2022
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"White House Takes Aim at Environmental Racism, but Won’t Mention Race" [61]

"Communities of color bear a disproportionate burden from pollution, research shows. But using race to allocate federal help could result in legal problems."

Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [52]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [62], 02/16/2022
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"EPA Drilling Down on Civil Rights Complaints, Top Lawyer Says" [63]

"The EPA is working to stiffen its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which broadly forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, the agency’s top lawyer said Tuesday."

Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [52]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [64], 02/16/2022
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