EJToday: Top Headlines

"West Oakland Faces A Test: Undoing Decades Of Environmental Injustice" [9]

"Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent white neighborhoods were spared the traffic and toxics."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Planning & Growth [15]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [17]
Public [18]
California [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 05/08/2023
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"Oil Boom Transforms Guyana, Prompting A Scramble For Spoils" [21]

"ANN’S GROVE, Guyana — Villagers in this tiny coastal community lined up on the soggy grass, leaned into the microphone and shared their grievances as someone in the crowd yelled, “Speak the truth!”"

Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [18]
South America [26]
Source: AP [27], 05/08/2023
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"Circuit Panel’s Halt of EPA Ozone Rule Threatens National Limits" [28]

"A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruling to halt an EPA decision to disapprove key ozone plans in Texas and Louisiana foreshadows similar decisions across regional circuit courts that threaten to upend established precedent."

Air [29]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [32], 05/08/2023
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Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant [33]

"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 05/08/2023
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Tribe Was Barred From Cultural Burning — Then A Fire Hit Their Community [35]

"The land near Yosemite National Park had been tended by Irene Vasquez’s family for decades. They took care of their seven acres by setting small fires to thin vegetation and help some plants to grow. But the steep, chaparral-studded slopes surrounding the property hadn’t seen fire since Vasquez and fellow members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation were barred from practicing cultural burning on a wider scale some 100 years before."

Climate Change [36]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [18]
California [19]
Source: LA Times [39], 05/08/2023
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"Some Farmers Resent Ethanol Industry’s Push For Carbon Pipelines" [40]

"Craig Schaunaman, who farms thousands of acres, has been invested in the ethanol industry since its early days and even served on the board of an ethanol plant. But a carbon-capture pipeline supported by dozens of ethanol plants would cross his land, and he’s against it, even though ethanol officials say the pipeline is crucial to the future viability of the industry.

Activism [41]
Agriculture [42]
Climate Change [36]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [30]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [43]
Source: States Newsroom [44], 05/08/2023
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"Radar, Cameras Show Sea Birds Avoid Wind Turbines" [45]

"Offshore wind energy critics often cite the risk of collision with birds as an argument against the use of wind power. But a new study conducted by European energy company Vattenfall shows that offshore wind turbines at one UK wind farm are much less dangerous to birds than previously thought, a step towards debunking common claims that turbines are a major contributor to bird mortality."

Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [36]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Infrastructure [13]
Technology [47]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [48]
Public [18]
International [49]
Source: Climate Denial Crock [50], 05/08/2023
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Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage For Decades. Now They May See Justice. [51]

"Officials in Alabama discriminated against Black residents in a rural county by denying them access to adequate sanitation systems, imposing burdensome fines and liens and ignoring the serious health risks plaguing the community, according to a landmark environmental justice agreement announced Thursday by the Biden administration."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [16]
Waste [52]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Washington Post [53], 05/05/2023
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Texas’ Water Infrastructure Is Broken, Jeopardizing Quality And Supply [54]

"On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents."

Consumer [55]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [56]
Source: Texas Tribune [57], 05/05/2023
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"Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone" [58]

"As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants."

Chemicals [59]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [56]
Source: NYTimes [60], 05/05/2023
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In ‘Cancer Alley’, Chemical Giants Campaign Against Grassroots Organizers [61]

"After residents of America’s “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana put a national spotlight on their fight for a healthy environment, the state’s economic interests and petrochemical giants are backing the creation of a new “sustainability council” to counter grassroots activists, documents show."

Chemicals [59]
Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [62]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Floodlight [63], 05/05/2023
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"WVa Residents Rip Pesticide Facility Plan As Hearing Looms" [64]

"A West Virginia logging company’s bid to establish a toxic-spewing facility in the picturesque Allegheny Mountains is drawing stiff pushback ahead of a public hearing planned for Thursday evening."

Chemicals [59]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [65]
Source: AP [66], 05/05/2023
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Tribe Signs Pact To Work With California To Save Endangered Salmon [67]

"A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to reintroduce fish that were transplanted from California to New Zealand more than a century ago and still thrive there."

Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [68]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [18]
California [19]
Source: LA Times [69], 05/05/2023
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"Commonwealth Hard Hit By Climate Impacts" [70]

"As King Charles prepares for his coronation this weekend, a study has highlighted the economic impact of climate change on the Commonwealth group of countries he heads as Britain's monarch - and revealed stark inequality within the bloc."

Climate Change [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [71]
Public [18]
International [49]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [72], 05/05/2023
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First Nation Fights In B.C. Court To Stop Dozens Of Mineral Claims [73]

"Two companies named in a B.C. Supreme Court case have made claims to Ehattesaht land — while the First Nation argues the province should stop automatically giving away mineral rights to its territory".

Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [18]
Canada [74]
Source: The Narwhal [75], 05/05/2023
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