EJToday: Top Headlines

"The EPA Is Cracking Down On PFAS — But Not In Fertilizer" [9]

"Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Grist [20], 04/23/2024
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Calif. Communities Fight The Last Toxic Battery Recycling Plant In The West [21]

"Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back."

Air [22]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [25]
Source: Grist [26], 04/23/2024
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Huge Green Energy Transmission Project Will Cut Through SW Indigenous Lands [27]

"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."

Activism [28]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
International [30]
Source: Grist [31], 04/23/2024
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"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia" [32]

"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."

Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Waste [16]
Public [18]
Asia [33]
Australia & Oceania [34]
Europe [35]
Source: DW [36], 04/23/2024
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"The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary" [37]

"A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well."

Biodiversity [38]
Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: Hakai [42], 04/23/2024
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"How Scientists Are Learning To Eavesdrop On The Sounds Of Soil" [43]

"The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dog’s toy repeatedly being chewed."

Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Studies [44]
Natural Resources [40]
Science [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [46], 04/23/2024
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"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’" [47]

"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [48], 04/22/2024
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Biden Shields Millions of Acres in Alaska From Drilling and Mining [49]

"The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope."

Climate Change [50]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [51]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [52]
Source: NYTimes [53], 04/22/2024
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"Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms" [54]

"Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment."

Agriculture [10]
Consumer [55]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [13]
Journalism & Media [56]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [57], 04/22/2024
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"Pennsylvania’s First Proposed Chemical Recycling Plant Cancelled" [58]

"Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week."

Air [22]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [50]
Consumer [55]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [51]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Waste [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [59]
Source: EHN [60], 04/22/2024
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Earth Day: A Senator More Than 50 Years Ago Got People Fighting For Planet [61]

"Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms."

Activism [28]
Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [51]
Journalism & Media [56]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [30]
Source: AP [62], 04/22/2024
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"3 Offshore Wind Projects Nixed In New York" [63]

"New York canceled power contracts for three offshore wind projects Friday, citing a turbine maker’s plans to scrap its biggest machines." "It’s a major blow to New York’s climate plan and to President Joe Biden’s energy ambitions."

Climate Change [50]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [64]
Source: E&E News [65], 04/22/2024
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RFK Jr.’s Onetime Allies In Green Advocacy Call For Him To Drop Out [66]

"Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected."

Environmental Politics [51]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: CNN [67], 04/22/2024
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Heat Caused Record-High Rates Of ER Visits In Parts Of US Last Year: CDC [68]

"Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country."

Climate Change [50]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [30]
Source: CNN [69], 04/22/2024
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Biden Marks Earth Day By Announcing $7 Billion In Solar Power Grants [70]

"President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program."

Climate Change [50]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [51]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [71]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [72], 04/22/2024
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