EJToday: Top Headlines

"Clean Energy, Ethanol Concerns Dog Debt Ceiling Bill" [9]

"Republicans leaders are eager to ram their debt ceiling package through the House this week, even with discomfort among some members with the bill’s energy and environment provisions."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [18], 04/26/2023
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"Governors Island to Be Site of $700 Million Climate Campus" [19]

"A “living laboratory” for climate solutions will rise on the idyllic 172-acre island off Lower Manhattan, led by Stony Brook University."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 04/26/2023
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"Oil Companies Rejected by Supreme Court on Climate Suits" [23]

"The US Supreme Court turned away oil-company appeals that sought a key procedural edge in about two dozen lawsuits blaming the industry for contributing to climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [24], 04/25/2023
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"Many Young Voters Bitter Over Biden’s Support of Willow Oil Drilling" [25]

"In the past three weeks, President Biden’s administration has proposed regulations to speed the transition to electric vehicles, committed $1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change and prepared what could be the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. And yet, many young voters alarmed by climate change remain angry with Mr. Biden’s decision last month to approve Willow, an $8 billion oil drilling project on pristine federal land in Alaska."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [26]
Source: NYTimes [27], 04/25/2023
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"Biden Threatens To Veto House Resolution To End Solar Panel Tariffs Freeze" [28]

"President Biden on Monday vowed to veto a congressional resolution that would undo his freeze on solar panel component tariffs should it reach his desk."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [29], 04/25/2023
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"Granholm Backs Mountain Valley Pipeline" [30]

"The Biden administration has thrown its weight behind the Mountain Valley pipeline, a major natural gas project favored by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and opposed by environmental advocates."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: E&E News [35], 04/25/2023
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EPA Accused Of Failing To Regulate Use Of Toxic Herbicide Despite Court Order [36]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge."

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [39]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [40], 04/25/2023
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2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Include Texas Gulf Coast Defender [41]

"Grassroots activists who took on British mining giants and a serial plastics polluter – and won – are among this year’s recipients of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize."

Activism [42]
Air [43]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: Guardian [47], 04/25/2023
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EPA Settlement Forces Chemical Plant To Cut Cancer-Causing Air Pollutants [48]

"A German company has agreed to substantially reduce air pollutants from a chemical plant near LaPlace, according to a settlement reached this week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Air [43]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [50], 04/25/2023
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"Safety Board: Several Issues Contributed to Massive Fire at BioLab" [51]

"Lake Charles, LA - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board found five safety issues that contributed to the massive fire at BioLab during Hurricane Laura in 2020."

Chemicals [39]
Disasters [52]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: KPLC [53], 04/25/2023
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"The Next Big U.S. Power Plant Fight Is Coming" [54]

"On Monday, several outlets broke the story that the Biden administration is planning to release a plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. And even though the rule isn’t public yet, if history is any indication, conservative forces are already getting ready to take the EPA to court."

Air [43]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Earther [55], 04/25/2023
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"Salamander Dads Are Turning Into Cannibals, Threatening Species Survival" [56]

"The hellbenders’ alarming change in behavior may be linked to deforestation, a new study found."

"The hellbender salamander has been called a lot of things. Snot otter. Mud devil. Old lasagna sides.

And now, perhaps: baby-eating cannibal, according to new research into the parental habits of these giant amphibians.

An eight-year study of hellbenders living in the cold, rocky rivers of southwestern Virginia has found that male salamanders are increasingly consuming their own young in areas near decimated forests.
Biodiversity [38]
Fish & Fisheries [57]
Forests [58]
Water & Oceans [33]
Wildlife [59]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: NYTimes [60], 04/25/2023
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"E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants" [61]

"President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks, technology now used by fewer than 20 of the nation’s 3,400 coal and gas-fired plants, according to three people who were briefed on the rule."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [62], 04/24/2023
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"UN’s Weather Agency: 2022 Was Nasty, Deadly, Costly And Hot" [63]

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"Looking back at 2022's weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last year really was as bad as it seemed when people were muddling through it. And about as bad as it gets — until more warming kicks in."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [52]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [64]
Public [16]
International [65]
Source: AP [66], 04/24/2023
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"In Puerto Rico, Solar Power Microgrids Boost Hurricane Resilience" [67]

"When Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico and decimated the Caribbean island's power grid five years ago, the lights stayed on in one building in the mountain town of Adjuntas."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [68]
Disasters [52]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [14]
Technology [69]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [70], 04/24/2023
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