EJToday: Top Headlines

"Pilots Flying Tourists Over National Parks Face New Rules" [9]

"Fewer planes and helicopters will be flying tourists over Mount Rushmore and other national monuments and parks as new regulations take effect that are intended to protect the serenity of some of the most beloved natural areas in the United States."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [14], 12/14/2023
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"Nine Climate Book Stocking Stuffers" [15]

"These affordable paperbacks can inspire everyone on your gift list."

Climate Change [16]
Journalism & Media [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [18], 12/14/2023
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COP28 Delegates Agree To ‘Transition Away’ From Planet-Warming Fossil Fuels [19]

"United Nations climate negotiators directed the world on Wednesday to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a move the talks chief called historic, despite critics’ worries about loopholes."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Public [12]
International [22]
Source: AP [23], 12/13/2023
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Arctic "Report Card" Points To Rapid, Dramatic Impacts Of Climate Change [24]

"This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, contributing to disasters across the wider region, including flooding in Juneau, Alaska and a record wildfire season in Canada."

Climate Change [16]
Public [12]
International [22]
Antarctica & Arctic [25]
Source: WBUR/NPR [26], 12/13/2023
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"How Will El Niño Affect The U.S. This Winter?" [27]

"The most potent El Niño event in almost a decade is about to exert its peak influence on North American weather. Many parts of the world are affected by El Niño, a periodic one- to two-year warming of the eastern tropical Pacific. In fact, El Niño is the biggest single shaper of Earth’s year-to-year weather variations atop human-induced climate change. And North America is one of the places where El Niño’s influence is most pronounced."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [16]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Natural Resources [11]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [22]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [31], 12/13/2023
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California Wants Farms To Capture Methane From Cow Manure; Neighbors Don't [32]

"At a massive dairy farm in the San Joaquin Valley, nearly 14,000 Holstein cows crane their necks through feeding stalls and gnaw leisurely on alfalfa. Meanwhile, close to their hooves, a sprinkler system activates and flushes the herd's manure into nearby sewer grates. From there, the waste courses through a network of pipes and into an enormous lagoon covered by a thick vinyl tarp."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [16]
Pollution [33]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [34]
Source: LA Times [35], 12/13/2023
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"Americans Like Home Electrification — But Also Still Love Their Gas Stoves" [36]

"Most Americans would prefer to live in a home where almost all major appliances run on electricity — but only if they can keep their gas stoves. Just 31 percent want to go fully electric."

Climate Change [16]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Technology [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [40], 12/13/2023
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Wildfires Could Be Transforming Natural Metals Into Cancer-Causing Compounds [41]

"Wildfires in parts of the U.S. West may be transforming a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart — potentially endangering first responders and surrounding communities, a new study has found."

Chemicals [42]
Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Forests [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [44], 12/13/2023
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"Colorado Cattle Industry Sues Over Reintroduction Of Gray Wolves" [45]

"The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and the Gunnison County Stockgrowers Association (GCSA) are taking legal action against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) “regarding the pending release of gray wolves in Colorado,” according to a blog post on the lawsuit from the CCA and GCSA, filed a couple of weeks before the wolves’ reintroduction as a result of a voter-approved initiative."

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [46]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [47]
Public [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Source: The Hill [49], 12/13/2023
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"The Biden Administration Has A Chance To Do Clean Hydrogen Right" [50]

"Forthcoming rules for clean hydrogen tax credits need to be built on “three pillars” to ensure that hydrogen actually fights climate change instead of making it worse."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Canary Media [51], 12/13/2023
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"What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think." [52]

"Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study."

Biodiversity [46]
Wildlife [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [53], 12/13/2023
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Environmental Change Threatens What's Left Of Japan's Cormorant Fishing [54]

"Cormorants have been a constant presence in Youichiro Adachi’s life, and when he was young, he cried whenever one of his family’s birds died. Now 48, Adachi still cares deeply for his birds, drawing them out of their baskets each morning and stroking their long necks to confirm their health and maintain a bond."

Fish & Fisheries [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [12]
Asia [55]
Source: Reuters [56], 12/13/2023
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"Countries Most at Risk Call Proposed Climate Agreement a ‘Death Warrant’" [57]

"Environmental groups and negotiators from countries that are most vulnerable to climate disasters assailed a draft of a final agreement, made public at the United Nations climate talks on Monday, that fell short of calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [58]
Environmental Politics [21]
Public [12]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [59], 12/12/2023
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Endangered Species List Grows By 2,000. Climate Change Part Of The Problem [60]

"Climate change is worsening the planet’s biodiversity crises, making environments more deadly for thousands of species and accelerating the precipitous decline in the number of plants and animals on Earth, according to an international organization that tracks species health."

Public [12]
International [22]
Source: AP [61], 12/12/2023
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"Specter Of Second Trump Term Looms Over Global Climate Talks" [62]

"Donald Trump casts a long shadow over the U.N. climate summit in Dubai. If elected, he will likely again pull the United States from the Paris climate accord."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [22]
Source: Washington Post [63], 12/12/2023
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