EJToday: Top Headlines

"Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say" [9]

"Rising temperatures have spurred an influx of beavers to Alaska and northern Canada ‘on a huge scale’".

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [17]
Canada [18]
Source: Guardian [19], 01/08/2024
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Avian Flu Surges In N. California, Threatening U.S. Poultry, Egg Supplies [20]

"Farms across California have had to euthanize several million chickens and ducks in recent weeks, as a wave of avian influenza threatens to upend national poultry and egg supplies."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [10]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [25]
Source: The Hill [26], 01/08/2024
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"Berkeley’s Gas Ban Is All But Dead. What Does That Mean For Other Cities?" [27]

"On Tuesday, a federal appeals court decided not to revisit its earlier decision to strike down Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation gas ban in new buildings. The ruling dealt a blow to the city of Berkeley, which requested a rehearing after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ initial decision in April, and casts uncertainty over similar policies to electrify buildings in dozens of other cities."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [30]
Source: Grist [31], 01/08/2024
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People Don’t Have To Pay Anything For Electricity In This Florida Community [32]

"In Hunters Point, Fla., the world’s first LEED Zero Energy certified residential development, every house produces more electricity than it uses".

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [22]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Infrastructure [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: Washington Post [34], 01/08/2024
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"‘Data Is Precious’: My Life On A Boat Tracking How The Ocean Breathes" [35]

"From a ship in the Labrador Sea, scientists are tracking how gases move through global waters – a rare natural phenomenon that may be crucial to the management of the climate crisis".

Air [36]
Climate Change [11]
Natural Resources [13]
Science [37]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
International [25]
Source: Guardian [38], 01/08/2024
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"Tough Choices Could Make 2024 A Wild Ride For Interior" [39]

"Interior Department officials enter a thicket this year overgrown with tough choices, evergreen litigation and plenty of political heat no matter which direction they go."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [41], 01/05/2024
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"Extreme Cold Grips Nordic Countries, Russia As Floods Hit Western Europe" [42]

"Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [43]
Public [16]
Europe [44]
Source: AP [45], 01/05/2024
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Canada’s Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change [46]

"A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions."

Climate Change [11]
Forests [47]
Public [16]
Canada [18]
Source: NYTimes [48], 01/05/2024
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"Consumer Reports Finds 'Widespread' Presence Of Plastics In Food" [49]

"Consumer Reports has found that plastics retain a "widespread" presence in food despite the health risks, and called on regulators to reassess the safety of plastics that come into contact with food during production."

Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [23]
Food [51]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Reuters [52], 01/05/2024
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"Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex" [53]

"As toxic pesticides and vanishing habitats have driven down the populations of bees and other pollinators, some flowers have evolved to fertilize their own seeds more often, rather than those of other plants."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [50]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [54]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [25]
Source: NYTimes [55], 01/05/2024
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Two Large Offshore Wind Sites Sending Power To US Grid For The First Time [56]

"For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
Source: AP [58], 01/05/2024
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"GOP Targets Biden’s $400 Billion Clean-Energy Loan Program" [59]

"Congressional Republicans are putting President Joe Biden’s $400 billion green bank in their crosshairs, seeking a repeat of the political victory they scored in 2011 with the scandal over collapsed solar company Solyndra."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [40]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [61], 01/05/2024
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"Indigenous Groups Cede Forest Rights For Sketchy Finance" [62]

"Several companies registered in Latin American countries claiming to have U.N. endorsement have persuaded Indigenous communities to hand over the economic rights to their forests for decades to come, a Mongabay investigation has found. The companies share commercial interests across various jurisdictions, and have not been able to demonstrate experience in sustainable finance projects."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Justice [63]
Forests [47]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [64]
Public [16]
International [25]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
South America [66]
Source: Mongabay [67], 01/05/2024
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Analysis: "‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate America’s Freshwater Fish" [68]

"A recent study from The Environmental Working Group found that just one serving of fish can be equivalent to a month of drinking water contaminated with 48 parts per trillion of the common chemical PFOS."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [50]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Fish & Fisheries [69]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [70], 01/05/2024
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"Seagrass Resurgence Offers Ray Of Hope For Florida’s Hard-Hit Manatees" [71]

"The recovery of seagrass, the manatees’ favorite food, in Mosquito Lagoon means that an emergency hand-feeding program that has kept many of the starving aquatic animals alive over the last two winters can be discontinued, at least temporarily."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: Guardian [72], 01/05/2024
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