EJToday: Top Headlines

"Mapping America’s Access To Nature, Neighborhood By Neighborhood" [9]

"Using satellite imagery and data on dozens of factors — including air and noise pollution, park space, open water and tree canopy — NatureQuant has distilled the elements of health-supporting nature into a single variable called NatureScore. Aggregated to the level of Census tracts — roughly the size of a neighborhood — the data provide a high-resolution image of where nature is abundant and where it is lacking across the United States."

Consumer [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [19], 04/11/2024
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"Biden Admin Tackles Cancer-Causing Air Pollution" [20]

"The Biden administration is reining in releases of cancer-causing compounds and other hazardous pollutants in a crackdown that targets petrochemical plants clustered in areas like Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.”

Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [25], 04/10/2024
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"Swiss Women Win Landmark Climate Case At Europe Top Human Rights Court" [26]

"Europe's top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change, in a decision that will set a precedent for future climate lawsuits."

Activism [27]
Climate Change [28]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
International [29]
Europe [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 04/10/2024
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"Railroad Agrees To $600 Million Settlement For Fiery Ohio Derailment" [32]

"Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio, but local residents worry the money won’t go very far because their potential health needs down the road may be tremendous."

Chemicals [21]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: AP [36], 04/10/2024
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Humans Converted 250,000 Acres Of Estuaries To Cities And Farms In 35 Years [37]

"Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities have converted 250,000 acres of estuary — an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan — to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary loss in rapidly developing countries, a new study finds."

Agriculture [38]
Biodiversity [39]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [14]
Planning & Growth [16]
Transportation [34]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [17]
International [29]
Source: AGU [43], 04/10/2024
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"Lithium Companies Fight Over Water in the Arid Great Basin" [44]

"In the Nevada valley that is one of the most significant domestic sources of a key element for the energy transition, one company controls the groundwater needed to mine it, another is fighting for a share of it and others are lining up at the tap."

Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 04/10/2024
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"EPA Mulls Tougher Limits On New Gas Plants As 2024 Election Nears" [47]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is considering significantly strengthening proposed limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants — a crucial part of President Biden’s climate agenda — according to three people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made."

Air [48]
Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [49], 04/10/2024
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US Wildfires Get Bigger And More Complex, Changing Firefighting Workforce [50]

"With fires growing in size and duration, federal officials in charge of juggling resources and dispatching crews are pivoting to a new business model they describe as the biggest shift in wildfire management in decades."

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [33]
Forests [51]
Government [52]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [53], 04/10/2024
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‘Alarming’ Bacteria Levels Found In Seine River, Where Olympians Will Swim [54]

"A nonprofit focused on waterway conservation has voiced concern about contamination in Paris’s Seine River ahead of open-water swimming events to be held there at the Olympic and Paralympic Games starting in July."

Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [17]
Europe [30]
Source: Washington Post [55], 04/10/2024
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"Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River" [56]

"Albania’s Vjosë River is known as Europe’s last wild river, and its pristine delta is a haven for migratory birds. As plans for luxury developments there — spearheaded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm."

Biodiversity [39]
Economy & Business [57]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Natural Resources [14]
Planning & Growth [16]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [58]
Public [17]
Europe [30]
Source: YaleE360 [59], 04/10/2024
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"The First All-Electric Tugboat In The US Is About To Launch" [60]

"With their roaring diesel engines, tugboats push, pull and guide much larger vessels into port and out to sea. They are small but mighty — and incredibly dirty, spewing huge amounts of toxic exhaust and planet-warming emissions every year. Now, however, the humble harbor craft is going electric."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Transportation [34]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [61]
Source: Canary Media [62], 04/10/2024
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Scientists Confirm Record Highs For 3 Most Important Heat-Trapping Gases [63]

"The levels of the three most important heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs again last year, US scientists have confirmed, underlining the escalating challenge posed by the climate crisis."

Air [48]
Climate Change [28]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [64], 04/09/2024
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"Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands" [65]

"When it was time to outline their vision for managing America’s federal lands under a future Republican presidency, pro-Donald Trump conservatives turned to a man who has spent his career advocating for those very lands to be pawned off to states and private interests."

Activism [27]
Biodiversity [39]
Economy & Business [57]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [58]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: HuffPost [66], 04/09/2024
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"Climate-Warming Gases Being Smuggled Into Europe, Investigation Says" [67]

"Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said on Monday."

Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [28]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
International [29]
Europe [30]
Source: Reuters [68], 04/09/2024
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Biden Agencies Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure [69]

"It was a key pledge in President Joe Biden’s effort to show renewed international leadership on climate change: The U.S. government, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world, would require its contractors and suppliers to disclose their carbon emissions and climate risks."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [57]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [52]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 04/09/2024
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