EJToday: Top Headlines

"Biden Moves Ahead With Drilling In Wildlife Refuge But Minimizes Acreage" [9]

"The Bureau of Land Management is required to auction off opportunities to drill in the Alaska wildlife refuge by the end of this year under 2017’s Tax Cuts and Job Act."

Biodiversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
Source: The Hill [19], 12/10/2024
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Biden Names National Monument At Notorious Native American Boarding School [20]

"President Biden on Monday formally designated the former site of a notorious boarding school for Native American children as a national monument, issuing a formal apology for the practice of forcibly removing children to such schools."

Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Source: The Hill [24], 12/10/2024
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TCE: "All Uses of 'Camp Lejeune Solvent' to Be Phased Out by EPA Rule" [25]

"All consumer, industrial, and commercial uses of trichloroethylene would be phased out under a rule the EPA issued Monday for a solvent the agency has long recognized could be harmful when released into the air and water or onto the land."

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [28], 12/10/2024
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Harmful ‘Neonics,’ Pesticides Are Common In Minnesota Waterways [29]

"A common pesticide coating on corn and soybean seeds has leached into Minnesota waterways, threatening pollinators and aquatic ecosystems, according to a report released this week by the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council."

Agriculture [30]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: Minnesota Reformer [33], 12/10/2024
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Advocates Demand FDA Ban Red Dye 3, A Cancer-Causing Food Additive [34]

"In the waning days of the Biden administration, a long-fought battle over a cancer-causing food additive is again in the spotlight as consumer advocacy groups and lawmakers demand federal regulators ban Red Dye No. 3, a chemical used to give popular candies, foods and drinks their cherry-red colors."

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [36], 12/10/2024
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"Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says" [37]

"Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia."

Agriculture [30]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [38]
Disasters [39]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [16]
International [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 12/10/2024
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Supreme Court Case on Utah Railway Could Impact U.S. Environmental Laws [42]

"A legal fight over an 88-mile proposed railway in Utah has set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of projects requiring their approval, a decision with the potential to drastically shift how projects are permitted across the nation."

Environmental Studies [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 12/10/2024
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"What Is The Energy Charter Treaty And How Has It Been Amended?" [46]

"Global accord lets oil firms sue over green policies. Pact signatories agree to reforms. Eleven European countries have quit treaty."

Climate Change [38]
Economy & Business [47]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
International [40]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [48], 12/10/2024
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"Indigenous Mayans Want Their Sacred Cenotes To Have Personhood Status" [49]

"A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms from within”). Deep underground, the tree’s long roots search for the water that makes this land special: a sinkhole lake, known as a cenote."

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Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [22]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [50]
Water & Oceans [51]
Public [16]
Mexico [52]
Source: AP [53], 12/10/2024
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UK: "The 'Apple Library' With A Lost World On Its Limbs" [54]

"The explosion of crisp, commercial apple varieties in the last century doomed many other breeds into obscurity. But in a field in Kent in the UK, some of them live on."

Agriculture [30]
Biodiversity [10]
Food [35]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [16]
Europe [55]
Source: BBC News [56], 12/10/2024
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"USDA Orders Nationwide Testing Of Milk For Bird Flu To Halt The Virus" [57]

"The U.S. government on Friday ordered testing of the nation’s milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread of the virus in dairy cows."

Agriculture [30]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [58], 12/09/2024
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"E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning" [59]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned two solvents found in everyday products that can cause cancer and other serious diseases. It was a move long sought by environmental and health advocates, even as they braced for what could be a wave of deregulation by the incoming Trump administration."

Chemicals [26]
Consumer [60]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [61], 12/09/2024
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"Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection From Lawsuits." [62]

"For decades, a little-known company now owned by a Goldman Sachs fund has been making millions of dollars from the unlikely dregs of American life: sewage sludge."

Agriculture [30]
Chemicals [26]
Consumer [60]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [35]
Pollution [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [63], 12/09/2024
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"The Climate Risk to the Mortgage System" [64]

"As sea levels rise and natural disasters become more intense, homes in low-lying coastal areas or tinder-dry mountains are starting to lose value. That’s a problem for the finances of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that back half of the nation’s outstanding mortgages — and keep the residential real estate market liquid by buying mortgages from banks and repackaging them into securities."

Climate Change [38]
Disasters [39]
Economy & Business [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [65], 12/09/2024
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"Rat Poison Harms Endangered Wildlife Up and Down the Food Chain, EPA Warns" [66]

"In humanity’s war against rats, other animals are often collateral. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its final biological evaluation on rodenticides on Nov. 22 and found that the rat poisons are jeopardizing at least 78 endangered species such as black-footed ferrets and California condors."

Agriculture [30]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 12/09/2024
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