EJToday: Top Headlines

"Crowding Out Cougars" [9]

"Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [15], 09/14/2023
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"The Food Industry Pays ‘Influencer’ Dietitians To Shape Your Eating Habits" [16]

"Registered dietitians are being paid to post videos that promote diet soda, sugar and supplements on Instagram and TikTok".

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [18]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Food [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Washington Post [24], 09/14/2023
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"Standoff Over Electric Vehicle Workers Poses Risk for Biden" [25]

"A looming auto industry strike could test the president’s commitment to making electric vehicles a source of well-paying union jobs."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [32]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: NYTimes [33], 09/14/2023
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News Corp Gasses Up ‘Green’ Fossil Fuels - But Does It Pass The Sniff Test? [34]

"Series sponsored by organisations including coal and gas companies features ‘incorrect’ claims on ‘green gas’ and context missing on carbon capture technology".

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [22]
Public [13]
International [35]
Australia & Oceania [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 09/14/2023
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World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant Being Built In Texas. Will It Work? [38]

"The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but is it just greenwashing from big oil?"

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Guardian [39], 09/14/2023
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Pumped Storage Hydro Is The Greenest Renewable Energy Technology: Study [40]

"Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology for large-scale energy storage, a new study suggests."

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Infrastructure [41]
Technology [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: OPB [43], 09/14/2023
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"Washington Is Full Of Rats. These Dogs Are Happy To Help With That." [44]

"On certain nights, behind some of your favorite restaurants, roving groups of dog owners set their posse of pooches loose on urban rodents".

Activism [45]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: Washington Post [47], 09/14/2023
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"For a Pittance, Miners Can Work Public Land. There’s a Push to Make Them Pay." [48]

"The Biden administration is asking Congress to change the law so companies pay federal royalties when they extract metals."
Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Natural Resources [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: NYTimes [49], 09/13/2023
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5,300 Are Feared Dead, More Are Missing As Libya Is Devastated By Floods [50]

"Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 people reported still missing after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [51]
Infrastructure [41]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [13]
Africa [53]
Source: AP [54], 09/13/2023
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"Colombia Was Deadliest Country For Environmentalists In 2022 - Group" [55]

"Colombia was the deadliest country for environmentalists in 2022, with at least 60 environmental and land rights defenders killed there, British advocacy group Global Witness said in a report on Tuesday."

Activism [45]
Environmental Politics [29]
Forests [56]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [13]
International [35]
South America [57]
Source: Reuters [58], 09/13/2023
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"China Sows Disinformation About Hawaii Fires Using New Techniques" [59]

"Beijing’s influence campaign using artificial intelligence is a rapid change in tactics, researchers from Microsoft and other organizations say."

"When wildfires swept across Maui last month with destructive fury, China’s increasingly resourceful information warriors pounced.
Journalism & Media [22]
Military [60]
Science [61]
Technology [42]
Public [13]
International [35]
Source: NYTimes [62], 09/13/2023
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UK Govt. May Have Broken Environmental Law On Sewage Overflows: Watchdog [63]

"Britain's government and water regulator may have failed to comply with environmental law over the regulation of untreated sewage releases, the country's environmental protection watchdog said on Tuesday."

Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [13]
Europe [64]
Source: Reuters [65], 09/13/2023
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Hurricane Lee Swirls Through Open Waters On A Path Toward Atlantic Canada [66]

"Hurricane Lee whirled north of Puerto Rico on Tuesday as a very large Category 3 storm, with forecasters noting it would remain in open waters through this week while on a path toward Atlantic Canada."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [51]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Canada [67]
Source: AP [68], 09/13/2023
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"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy" [69]

"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."

Air [70]
Chemicals [18]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Pollution [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [71], 09/13/2023
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"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms" [72]

"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [20]
Public [13]
International [35]
Asia [73]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [74], 09/13/2023
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