EJToday: Top Headlines

Companies to Inject Millions of Tons of CO2 Underground. Will It Stay Put? [9]

"A new report highlights the risk 120,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pose to carbon dioxide storage in Louisiana, home to more proposals to pump the greenhouse gas underground than any other state." "With industry planning to inject tens of millions of tons annually, a looming question is whether the climate-warming gas will stay underground."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
International [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 03/22/2024
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"Why A Shrinking US Aluminum Industry Is Tricky News For Clean Energy" [21]

"Once the world’s top aluminum producer, the U.S. is now making much less of it — just as cleantech industries drive up demand for the metal and advocates try to drive its emissions down."

Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [19]
Source: Canary Media [25], 03/22/2024
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"Senate-Passed Radiation Legislation Left Out Of House Spending Bill" [26]

"A standalone bill to expand and reauthorize a 30-year-old radiation compensation program that passed the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority will not be included in the text of a House appropriations bill."

Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [30], 03/22/2024
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DOE Announces $475M For Clean Energy Projects On Mine Land Sites [31]

"The Biden administration pumped more money into clean energy projects Thursday, announcing up to $475 million in federal funding for projects in five states — including the political battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada." "The administration said the clean energy projects will strengthen the country’s energy security while helping ensure mining communities continue playing a role in the energy economy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Technology [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [33], 03/22/2024
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Bats Are In Trouble. That’s Bad For Anyone Who Likes Mezcal, Rice Or Avocado [34]

"If you’ve ever enjoyed coffee, tomatoes, corn, bananas, mangoes, walnuts, chocolate, tequila or mezcal, you may just owe bats a thank-you."

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [36]
Consumer [37]
Food [38]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [19]
Mexico [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 03/22/2024
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"Dunes Aren’t Just Big Piles Of Sand. Here’s Why Earth Needs Them." [42]

"The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel “Dune” are also under siege — from climate change and human development."

Biodiversity [36]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [43]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
International [19]
Source: Washington Post [46], 03/22/2024
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"Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Expanding Electric Vehicles" [47]

"The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032."

Air [48]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [37]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [32]
Transportation [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [50], 03/21/2024
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"Lead In Water A Threat To Two-Thirds Of Young Children In Chicago" [51]

"Two out of three very young children in Chicago were exposed to at least trace amounts of lead in their home tap water, a study found, highlighting the need for City Hall to speed up replacements of brain-damaging lead pipes."

Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [52]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [53], 03/21/2024
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Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in Top Medical Journal [54]

"Use of petroleum-based chemicals skyrocketed during the postwar era, most of them entering the market with little concern for safety. Now, mounting evidence links petrochemicals to the rapidly rising prevalence of a slew of chronic and deadly conditions, a review published in the New England Journal of Medicine warned earlier this month."

Chemicals [22]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 03/21/2024
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"World 'Losing The Battle' Against Electronic Waste, UN Finds" [56]

"The world is losing the battle against electronic waste, a U.N. expert said on Wednesday, after a report found 62 million metric tons of mobile phones and devices were dumped on the planet in just one year - and this is expected to increase by a third by 2030."

Consumer [37]
Economy & Business [23]
Pollution [15]
Technology [32]
Waste [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [19]
Source: Reuters [58], 03/21/2024
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As Threats To Air Quality Rise, Communities Deploy Low-Cost Air Monitors [59]

"When the monitors detect unhealthy conditions, people can protect themselves by closing doors and windows and avoiding unmasked time outdoors."

Activism [60]
Air [48]
Environmental Justice [28]
People & Population [61]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [62]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [63], 03/21/2024
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33,000 Hours Of Harmful Seabed Trawling Revealed In Protected UK Waters [64]

"Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than 33,000 hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data shows."

Biodiversity [36]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [16]
Europe [66]
Source: Guardian [67], 03/21/2024
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"Caribou Declines Causing Angst For Hunters Are Part Of Wider Trend" [68]

"Alaska subsistence hunters struggling with caribou declines and lost hunting opportunities got a message at a gathering in Anchorage last week: They are not alone." "There are signs that climate change is depressing caribou numbers, and ongoing and proposed development could make recovery more difficult, experts say".

Biodiversity [36]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [37]
Food [38]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [61]
Wildlife [39]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [69]
International [19]
Antarctica & Arctic [70]
Source: Alaska Beacon [71], 03/21/2024
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Merger Puts California's Idle Well Regulations To The Test [72]

"The deal would place 40 percent of California’s idle wells in the hands of one operator. Campaigners warn this poses an “immense” risk to the state — which new rules could help to mitigate, depending on how regulators act."

Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [62]
Source: DeSmog [73], 03/21/2024
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"How A Trump Presidency Could Threaten Biden’s Signature Climate Achievement" [74]

"Democrats’ sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fueled significant progress in the fight against climate change since its passage in 2022. But if former President Trump wins back the presidency in November, he’s likely to undermine those gains — or help a Republican Congress do away with the law entirely."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [75], 03/21/2024
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