EJToday: Top Headlines

"Pope Denounces Slaying Of Honduran Environmental Defender" [9]

"Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the slaying of an environmental activist in Honduras, adding to a growing number of international voices that have raised concern over the killing."

Activism [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Forests [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Central America & the Caribbean [20]
Source: AP [21], 09/24/2024
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Federal Judge Throws Out Suit To Protect Dolphins From Spillway Openings [22]

"A lawsuit filed by Mississippi Gulf Coast local governments, representatives of its tourism industry and Mississippi fishers against the Army Corps of Engineers to protect bottlenose dolphins from death or injury caused by openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway has been thrown out by a federal judge in Gulfport."

Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [23]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [29], 09/24/2024
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New Green Aluminum Plant Could Bring Jobs And Clean Energy To Kentucky [30]

"The coal-rich state wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy. "

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: Canary Media [33], 09/24/2024
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"At COP16, Colombia Seeks To Lead By Example On Biodiversity" [34]

"As one of the world's most biodiverse countries, Colombia is determined to lead by example when it hosts an upcoming UN summit to save nature, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told AFP on Monday."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [26]
Public [19]
International [36]
Source: AFP [37], 09/24/2024
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Midwest Could Offer Fall’s Most Electric Foliage But Elsewhere May Too [38]

"Leaves around the northern U.S. are starting to turn orange, yellow and red, inspiring legions of leaf lovers to hop in their cars and travel to the countryside for the best look at fall’s fireworks."

Forests [13]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Source: AP [41], 09/24/2024
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In NYC And Elsewhere, Climate Protesters Say Action Isn’t Fast Enough [42]

"Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [35]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
International [36]
Source: AP [44], 09/23/2024
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"From Malaise To Mania: How Green Fundraising Rebounded" [45]

"Before President Joe Biden exited the race, environmental groups were badly lagging the rate of their 2020 campaign spending. That’s changing."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [35]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [46], 09/23/2024
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Americans Most Affected By Climate Crisis Head To Midwest [47]

"Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere"

"As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.

But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.

Before she moved there in 2022, life in Florida had become unbearable.
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [48]
People & Population [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [49], 09/23/2024
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"US CFTC Issues First Guidelines For Carbon Credit Markets" [50]

"The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved on Friday the first guidelines for trading voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country, a move expected to help bolster the nascent market."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Politics [35]
Forests [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [36]
Source: Reuters [51], 09/23/2024
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DOE Promised Yakama Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. Bureaucracy Stalls It [52]

"The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. ... Months after announcing the grant, the same department is making it nearly impossible for the tribal nation to access the money."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [35]
Government [53]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Northwest (OR WA) [54]
Source: OPB/ProPublica [55], 09/23/2024
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"New Global Climate 'Loss And Damage' Fund Names First Director" [56]

"The board of The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to help countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters named Senegalese finance specialist Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first director, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Saturday."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [35]
Public [19]
International [36]
Source: Reuters [57], 09/23/2024
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Hotter Summers Are Making High School Football A Fatal Game For Some Players [58]

"Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice."

Climate Change [23]
Environmental Health [59]
People & Population [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [60], 09/23/2024
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"Mystery Of Disappearing Ospreys Might Have Controversial Explanation" [61]

"A new study suggests osprey chicks are starving in parts of the Chesapeake Bay because of a lack of menhaden, a primary source of food but also a major industry."

Biodiversity [11]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [62]
Source: Washington Post [63], 09/23/2024
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House Backs Measure To Overturn Biden Auto Emissions Rule That Promotes EVs [64]

"The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want."

Climate Change [23]
Consumer [65]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [66]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [67], 09/23/2024
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"Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered." [68]

"A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird."

Biodiversity [11]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [26]
Public [19]
International [36]
Source: NYTimes [69], 09/23/2024
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