EJToday: Top Headlines

"US CFTC Issues First Guidelines For Carbon Credit Markets" [9]

"The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved on Friday the first guidelines for trading voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country, a move expected to help bolster the nascent market."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: Reuters [18], 09/23/2024
- Read more about "US CFTC Issues First Guidelines For Carbon Credit Markets" [9]
DOE Promised Yakama Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. Bureaucracy Stalls It [19]

"The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. ... Months after announcing the grant, the same department is making it nearly impossible for the tribal nation to access the money."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [22]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [24]
Source: OPB/ProPublica [25], 09/23/2024
- Read more about DOE Promised Yakama Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. Bureaucracy Stalls It [19]
"New Global Climate 'Loss And Damage' Fund Names First Director" [26]

"The board of The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to help countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters named Senegalese finance specialist Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first director, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Saturday."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [15]
International [17]
Source: Reuters [27], 09/23/2024
- Read more about "New Global Climate 'Loss And Damage' Fund Names First Director" [26]
Hotter Summers Are Making High School Football A Fatal Game For Some Players [28]

"Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
People & Population [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [31], 09/23/2024
- Read more about Hotter Summers Are Making High School Football A Fatal Game For Some Players [28]
"Mystery Of Disappearing Ospreys Might Have Controversial Explanation" [32]

"A new study suggests osprey chicks are starving in parts of the Chesapeake Bay because of a lack of menhaden, a primary source of food but also a major industry."

Biodiversity [33]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: Washington Post [38], 09/23/2024
- Read more about "Mystery Of Disappearing Ospreys Might Have Controversial Explanation" [32]
House Backs Measure To Overturn Biden Auto Emissions Rule That Promotes EVs [39]

"The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [41]
Transportation [42]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [43], 09/23/2024
- Read more about House Backs Measure To Overturn Biden Auto Emissions Rule That Promotes EVs [39]
"Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered." [44]

"A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird."

Biodiversity [33]
Natural Resources [35]
Wildlife [45]
Public [15]
International [17]
Source: NYTimes [46], 09/23/2024
- Read more about "Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered." [44]
"Microsoft Deal Would Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Power AI" [47]

"The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces."

Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Infrastructure [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [48]
Technology [49]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [50], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "Microsoft Deal Would Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Power AI" [47]
Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira: Murder Charge Dropped Against One Suspect [51]

"Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’"

Activism [52]
Biodiversity [33]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Forests [13]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [15]
International [17]
South America [54]
Source: Guardian [55], 09/20/2024
- Read more about Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira: Murder Charge Dropped Against One Suspect [51]
"Worst Drought On Record Lowers Amazon Rivers To All-Time Lows" [56]

"The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways."

Biodiversity [33]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [57]
Natural Resources [35]
Transportation [42]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [15]
South America [54]
Source: Reuters [58], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "Worst Drought On Record Lowers Amazon Rivers To All-Time Lows" [56]
"Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil" [59]

"A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle."

Agriculture [60]
Biodiversity [33]
Chemicals [61]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
Forests [13]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [15]
South America [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil" [59]
"Biden Administration Nears Approval For ioneer's Nevada Lithium Mine" [63]

"The Biden administration on Thursday published a key environmental report for ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the last step needed before approving what would become one of the largest U.S. sources of the electric vehicle battery metal."

Natural Resources [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [64]
Source: Reuters [65], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "Biden Administration Nears Approval For ioneer's Nevada Lithium Mine" [63]
"How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling" [66]

"The drilling leases in a pristine corner of Colorado seemed like a done deal. But then an unlikely alliance of cowboys and environmentalists emerged. And things changed."

Activism [52]
Agriculture [60]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [64]
Source: NYTimes [67], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling" [66]
"Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover" [68]

"The bare hot asphalt schoolyard of the American past is getting a redo." "Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
Infrastructure [23]
People & Population [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [69], 09/20/2024
- Read more about "Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover" [68]
California Insurers Begin Giving 'Discounts' For Fire-Proofed Homes [70]

"Under a new state program, property insurers must provide discounts for home wildfire mitigation. But some discounts are miniscule."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [57]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [71]
Source: E&E News [72], 09/20/2024
- Read more about California Insurers Begin Giving 'Discounts' For Fire-Proofed Homes [70]

Pages