EJToday: Top Headlines

"Leave It To Beavers? Not If You’re A Wolf." [9]

"This is what happens when an apex predator collides with an ecosystem engineer."

"Beavers are influential. By cutting trees and damming streams, these rodents change the world around them, raising water levels and creating habitats for diverse plants, insects, fish and more. They are some of the world’s best-known ecosystem engineers, a term for species that produce outsize effects on their environments.
Biodiversity [10]
Infrastructure [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 11/09/2023
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Cheetahs Become More Nocturnal On Hot Days: Climate Impacts On Predator [16]

"Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds. Unfortunately for endangered cheetahs, that sets them up for more potential conflicts with mostly nocturnal competing predators such as lions and leopards, say the authors of research published Wednesday ... ."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [13]
International [19]
Africa [20]
Source: AP [21], 11/09/2023
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US Chemical Industry Likely Spent $110M To Thwart PFAS Legislation: Study [22]

"The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around “forever chemicals”, a new analysis of federal lobbying documents has found."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Guardian [29], 11/08/2023
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"US Agency Proposes Allowing Carbon Capture Projects In National Forests" [30]

"The U.S. Forest Service wants to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on national forest land, according to a proposed rule published by the agency on Friday"

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [25]
Forests [31]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Reuters [32], 11/08/2023
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India Court Tells States To Stop Crop Burning Amid Hazardous New Delhi Air [33]

"India's Supreme Court ordered authorities in the states surrounding New Delhi on Tuesday to stop farmers burning crop residue, as the air quality from smog engulfing the world's most polluted capital during the past week reached hazardous levels."

Agriculture [34]
Air [35]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Public [13]
Asia [36]
Source: Reuters [37], 11/08/2023
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EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water [38]

"The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts."

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [39]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: ProPublica [41], 11/08/2023
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"Lawsuit: Southern Co. Lied To DOE Over Kemper CCS Plant" [42]

"A former employee of the utility said she was ordered to prepare documents with false information on the now-canceled Kemper carbon capture project."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [25]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: E&E News [46], 11/08/2023
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Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River [47]

"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."

Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: EHN [49], 11/08/2023
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"Greenland’s Ice Shelves Hold Back Sea Level Rise. There Are Just 5 Left." [50]

"The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the Northern Hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline, according to new scientific research published Tuesday."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [51]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
International [19]
Antarctica & Arctic [52]
Source: Washington Post [53], 11/08/2023
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Baltimore, Maryland Dept. of Environment Settle Lawsuits Over Sewage Plants [54]

"Environmental advocates hope an agreement negotiated earlier this month by Baltimore City, the state Department of the Environment and the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore to upgrade the city’s two wastewater treatment plants will help meet the state’s Chesapeake Bay restoration goals."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [55]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 11/08/2023
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As Paradise, California, Rebuilds, Nobody Can Afford Home Insurance [57]

"The soaring cost of home insurance has consumed the town of Paradise, residents and officials say, as it prepares to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Nov. 8, 2018, Camp Fire. Residents have received annual premiums that near or exceed $10,000 — leaving many to wonder how they’re supposed to rebuild their hard-hit community when insurance is so shockingly high for houses in an area that is supposed to be among the most affordable in California."

Climate Change [17]
Consumer [39]
Disasters [51]
Economy & Business [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [59]
Source: AP [60], 11/08/2023
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"Boiling Point: Trump Is Lying About California And Clean Energy Again" [61]

"This time he’s claiming the state had lots of blackouts this summer. It did not."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [25]
Journalism & Media [44]
Science [62]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [59]
Source: LA Times [63], 11/08/2023
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"As Climate Talks Near, Calls Mount for a ‘Phaseout’ of Fossil Fuels" [64]

"With UN climate negotiations set for next month, a growing number of nations and business leaders are calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels. But with major fossil fuel expansion projects moving ahead around the globe, advocates of strong action face a daunting challenge."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Pollution [27]
Public [13]
International [19]
Source: YaleE360 [65], 11/07/2023
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"EPA Watchdog Accused Of Creating A Hostile Work Environment" [66]

"The top watchdog tasked with overseeing EPA faced accusations that he abused his authority, wasted government money and showed partisan favor. EPA Inspector General Sean O’Donnell denied the allegations, which an oversight body ultimately deemed not worthy of further investigation, according to documents obtained by E&E News."

Environmental Justice [55]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [67]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: E&E News [68], 11/07/2023
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"This County Could Create The Strictest Workplace Heat Rules In The U.S." [69]

"Miami-Dade County commissioners on Tuesday will decide whether to establish the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States, a test of whether local governments can protect workers from increasingly dangerous temperatures in the absence of federal rules."

Agriculture [34]
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [55]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [67]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Washington Post [70], 11/07/2023
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