EJToday: Top Headlines

"Biden to Ban More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives" [9]

"President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg [18], 01/03/2025
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Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania Freshwater Mussels [19]

"Researchers detected increased radioactivity in mussels downstream of oil and gas wastewater discharge points, raising concerns about effects up the food chain."

Biodiversity [20]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Natural Resources [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 01/03/2025
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Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline [26]

"Few men still fish for a living on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The work is hard and pay is meager. In the hearts of rundown seaside towns, dilapidated harbors barely recall the communities that thrived here generations ago."

Activism [27]
Biodiversity [20]
Chemicals [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [29]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 01/03/2025
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Judge Won't Dismiss Suit Claiming Poland Spring Water Isn't From A Spring [32]

"A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as "spring water."

Consumer [33]
Economy & Business [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: Reuters [37], 01/03/2025
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"Grieving Killer Whale Who Carried Calf’s Body Spotted Again With Dead Baby" [38]

"An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population."

Biodiversity [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Wildlife [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 01/03/2025
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"Climate Change Added 41 Days Of Dangerous Heat Around World In 2024" [42]

"People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.

The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [43]
Source: AP [44], 01/02/2025
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Calif. Will Require Insurers To Increase Home Coverage In Fire-Prone Areas [45]

"Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if they want to keep doing business in California under a state regulation announced Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [33]
Disasters [46]
Economy & Business [34]
Forests [47]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
California [48]
Source: AP [49], 01/02/2025
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Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public [50]

"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Infrastructure [51]
Pollution [52]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: ProPublica [53], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [54]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

Agriculture [55]
Biodiversity [20]
Chemicals [28]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [52]
Waste [56]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [57], 01/02/2025
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"Big Oil Backtracks On Renewables Push As Climate Agenda Falters" [58]

"Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [52]
Public [16]
International [43]
Europe [59]
Source: Reuters [60], 01/02/2025
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"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy" [61]

"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Forests [47]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Policy [62]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [63], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [64]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

Air [65]
Chemicals [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [29]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [52]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [30]
Source: Public Health Watch [66], 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [67]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [27]
Air [65]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [52]
Waste [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [68]
Source: KFF Health News [69], 01/02/2025
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Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports [70]

"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [52]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [71], 01/02/2025
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"Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories: Why RFK Jr Is Watching The Skies" [72]

"Belief in a supposed US government plot linked to aircraft condensation trails has been boosted by confusion over proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis"

Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [35]
Science [73]
Transportation [74]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [75], 01/02/2025
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