EJToday: Top Headlines

Pier Pressure: Over 1,000 Sea Lions Assemble At San Francisco Dockside [9]

"More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Francisco’s Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years. Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the city’s pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
California [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 05/03/2024
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"Big Oil Hearing: Dems Make Their Case Against The Industry" [17]

"A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday gave Democrats the chance to highlight new findings in an ongoing congressional investigation seeking to prove that major oil companies waged a decadeslong climate disinformation campaign."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Science [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [24], 05/02/2024
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"US Senate Approves Bill To Ban Russian Uranium Imports" [25]

"The U.S. Senate approved on Tuesday legislation to bar imports of Russian uranium, as the United States continues to seek to disrupt Russia's efforts in its war against Ukraine."

Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Military [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [29]
Source: Reuters [30], 05/02/2024
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"Biden To Expand California Monuments At White House Event" [31]

"President Joe Biden will add a combined 120,000 acres Thursday to a pair of national monuments in California at a White House ceremony, the administration announced."

Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [15]
Source: E&E News [34], 05/02/2024
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EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution; Scientists Call Greenwashing [35]

"The Pittsburgh corporation says its natural gas is saving the world, countering Russian aggression and solving the climate crisis. Numerous experts say that’s not true."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Pollution [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [29]
Source: PublicSource [37], 05/02/2024
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"Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife" [38]

"Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger numerous die-offs of marine species, killing millions of corals, fish, mammals, birds and plants. Those mass die-offs also have sent a wave of emotional trauma washing over some researchers watching their life’s work vanish before their eyes."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Studies [40]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Natural Resources [33]
Science [22]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 05/02/2024
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"Minnesota’s Biggest Solar Project Will Help Replace A Huge Coal Plant" [42]

"One of the largest solar projects in the country is moving closer to completion, and it’s not in a famously sunny state like California, Texas, or even Florida. It’s in Minnesota, on former potato farms near the site of a retiring coal plant."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Infrastructure [43]
Technology [44]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: Canary Media [46], 05/02/2024
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"Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions" [47]

"Florida gave up $3 million in federal grant funding and as much as $500 million more by declining to participate in a Biden administration program aimed at helping states address the human-caused emissions warming the global climate."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: Inside Climate News [49], 05/02/2024
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"The Impacts Of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Aren’t The Same For Women, Men" [50]

"While “forever chemicals” have been linked to numerous adverse health impacts from cancers to kidney disease, they also may have disparate impacts on male and female bodies."

Chemicals [51]
Consumer [52]
Environmental Health [53]
People & Population [54]
Science [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: The Hill [55], 05/02/2024
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Muscogee Lands In Georgia Would Become A National Park Under Bills [56]

"Georgia’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve."

Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [54]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: AP [57], 05/02/2024
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"This Texas Veterinarian Helped Crack The Mystery Of Bird Flu In Cows" [58]

"The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons and other birds dying on their Texas farms. Then came word that barn cats — half of them on one farm — had died suddenly."

Agriculture [59]
Environmental Health [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [60]
Source: AP [61], 05/02/2024
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"Plastic Pollution Talks Make Modest Progress But Sidestep Production Curbs" [62]

"Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should seek to limit the amount of plastic being made. As the week-long talks in the Canadian capital of Ottawa ended before dawn, countries agreed to continue their work in ad hoc meetings before the final summit starting Nov. 25 in Busan, South Korea."

Chemicals [51]
Consumer [52]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [14]
International [29]
Source: Reuters [63], 05/01/2024
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"Biden Revamps Permitting In Boost For Clean Energy" [64]

"On Tuesday, the White House finalized its “Phase 2” revisions for the National Environmental Policy Act’s regulations, which top officials believe will speed up permitting for key infrastructure projects while maintaining environmental protections. The rule is considered a cornerstone of Biden’s green agenda as he mounts his 2024 reelection bid and is likely to face resistance from Republican lawmakers and industry trade associations."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [65]
Infrastructure [43]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [66], 05/01/2024
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Big Oil Privately Acknowledged Efforts To Downplay Climate Crisis: Docs [67]

"Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Guardian [68], 05/01/2024
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"U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing" [69]

"New details of the Biden administration’s signature conservation effort, made public this month amid a burst of other environmental announcements, have alarmed some scientists who study marine protected areas because the plan would count certain commercial fishing zones as conserved."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [20]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [29]
Source: NYTimes [70], 05/01/2024
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