EJToday: Top Headlines

"Data Centers, Bitcoin And EVs Send Utilities Scrambling For More Power" [9]

"U.S. energy use has been flat, but bitcoin, data centers and EVs are fueling a spike and threatening climate goals."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Floodlight [16], 03/20/2024
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Rat Fur, Arsenic And Copper: The Dangerous Ingredients In US Prison Water [17]

"Incarcerated people often must drink unhealthy water, a particularly cruel – but not unusual – form of punishment".

Consumer [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [22], 03/20/2024
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"Empire Of The Ants: What Insect Supercolonies Can Teach Us" [23]

"People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is"

Biodiversity [24]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
International [28]
Source: Guardian [29], 03/20/2024
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EPA Bans Asbestos, A Carcinogen Still In Use Decades After A Partial Ban [30]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year."

Air [31]
Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [33]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Pollution [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [35], 03/19/2024
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"U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition" [36]

"A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [37]
Pollution [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Middle East [38]
Source: NYTimes [39], 03/19/2024
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"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show" [40]

"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."

Activism [41]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [37]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [42]
Source: Grist [43], 03/19/2024
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"How You Should Think About Those Google Flights Pollution Numbers" [44]

"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Studies [45]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [28]
Source: Washington Post [47], 03/19/2024
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"5th Circuit Denies Biden Request To Review Nuclear Waste Ruling" [48]

"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."

Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [49]
Waste [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Source: E&E News [52], 03/19/2024
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"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs" [53]

"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [37]
Journalism & Media [54]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Military [55]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [56], 03/19/2024
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"An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing" [57]

"The legislation aimed to reformulate how Oregon funds the rising costs of fighting wildfires. It sparked debate within the Democratic-controlled Legislature about who should pay: taxpayers or big timber owners, who won steep tax cuts in the 1990s."

Disasters [58]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [37]
Forests [59]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [60]
Source: ProPublica [61], 03/19/2024
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"You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month" [62]

"The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [58]
Environmental Politics [37]
Forests [59]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Grist [63], 03/19/2024
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The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Is Losing Them [64]

"Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar outfits. They were smokejumpers with the United States Forest Service, the agency that directs the majority of the nation’s efforts to manage wildfires."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [58]
Environmental Politics [37]
Forests [59]
Government [65]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: ProPublica [66], 03/19/2024
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"Using AI To Spot Edible Mushrooms Could Kill You" [67]

"AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes".

Biodiversity [24]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [33]
Food [68]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Science [69]
Technology [70]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [71], 03/19/2024
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Zombies of the Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill [72]

"For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Pollution [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [73], 03/18/2024
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"Federal Court Halts SEC Climate Reporting Rule" [74]

"Federal judges have temporarily halted a landmark new climate reporting rule, sidelining efforts by Wall Street’s top regulator to uncover the risks U.S. corporations and their investors face from rising global temperatures."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [37]
Journalism & Media [54]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [75], 03/18/2024
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