EJToday: Top Headlines

"China's Mekong Dams Turn Thai Fishing Villages Into 'Ghost Towns'" [9]

"From February to April each year, Kam Thon spends most of her days knee-deep in the waters of the Mekong River by her village in northern Thailand, gathering river weed to sell and cook at home."

Agriculture [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Asia [15]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [16], 03/21/2023
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"Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead In Somalia Drought Last Year" [17]

"A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia’s longest drought on record last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Food [20]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Africa [22]
Source: AP [23], 03/21/2023
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"Waste Pickers Collect Food Waste, Help Combat Climate Change" [24]

"Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon city just north of Manila every morning except Sundays, collecting bags of segregated garbage."

Climate Change [18]
Food [20]
Waste [25]
Public [14]
Australia & Oceania [26]
Source: AP [27], 03/21/2023
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"Nations Approve Key UN Science Report On Climate Change" [28]

"Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations."

Climate Change [18]
Science [29]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: AP [31], 03/20/2023
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"States Cannot Block Hazardous Waste From Ohio Derailment, EPA Says" [32]

"U.S. states cannot block shipments of hazardous waste from a Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment to licensed disposal sites, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday."

Chemicals [33]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Waste [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Reuters [37], 03/20/2023
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WHO Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals [38]

"The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing."

Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [34]
Science [29]
Wildlife [40]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [41], 03/20/2023
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Md., Va. Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in Chesapeake Bay [42]

"Alarmed by plummeting stocks of commercial fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay, officials in Maryland and Virginia are scrambling to control invasive fish species that are causing at least part of the problem."

Biodiversity [43]
Fish & Fisheries [44]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 03/20/2023
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"Hawaii Supreme Court Ruling Bolsters Rights-Based Climate Cases" [47]

"Hawaii’s top court issued a ruling this week recognizing a human right to a stable climate, a decision that could reverberate in other rights-based climate cases in the US and beyond."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [36]
Alaska and Hawaii [48]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 03/20/2023
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Babesiosis, A Tickborne Disease, Is On The Rise In Northeast: CDC [50]

"Tickborne disease has been on the rise in the US, with the number of cases growing 25% from 2011 to 2019. Among them is babesiosis, which has become significantly more prevalent in the Northeast in recent years."

Biodiversity [43]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [39]
Natural Resources [51]
People & Population [21]
Wildlife [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [36]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [52]
Source: CNN [53], 03/20/2023
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Big Oil Firms Touted Algae As Climate Fix. Now All Have Pulled Funding [54]

"One by one, big oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as the future of low-carbon transportation – and one by one, they have all dropped out. Now in the wake of the last remaining algae proponent, ExxonMobil, announcing its withdrawal, insiders say they are disappointed but not surprised."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [55]
Natural Resources [51]
Technology [56]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [57], 03/20/2023
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Utilities Spent Big Preparing Power Grid For Storms – And Still Failed [58]

"Electric utilities spent billions after 2014’s polar vortex to ensure power plants and the grid could handle extreme cold, but this winter it still wasn’t enough".

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Energy & Fuel [55]
Environmental Health [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Floodlight [59], 03/20/2023
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Brazil Tackles Illegal Miners, But Finds Mercury Legacy Harder To Erase [60]

"As the details of the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory unfold amid action to remove illegal miners, mercury left by the rampant gold mining in the area will remain a lingering toxic legacy."

Chemicals [33]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [11]
Natural Resources [51]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [61]
Public [14]
South America [62]
Source: Mongabay [63], 03/20/2023
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"BNSF Fuel Train Derails On Swinomish Reservation" [64]

"A BNSF train leaving a Western Washington oil refinery with diesel fuel derailed shortly after midnight on March 16 on the Swinomish Reservation about 80 miles north of Seattle."

Disasters [19]
Energy & Fuel [55]
Pollution [61]
Transportation [65]
Public [14]
Northwest (OR WA) [66]
Source: ICT [67], 03/20/2023
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"Biden Plans to Name Nevada’s Spirit Mountain Area a National Monument" [68]

"President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with the matter, protecting some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert."

Energy & Fuel [55]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Natural Resources [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [36]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [69]
Source: NYTimes [70], 03/17/2023
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Survivors In Shock As Cyclone Freddy Toll Passes 400 In Malawi, Mozambique [71]

"The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The next thing she knew, she woke up in hospital, her head wrapped in bandages and her neck in a brace."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Africa [22]
Source: Reuters [72], 03/17/2023
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