EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Proposes ‘Strongest Ever’ Limits On Coal Plant Discharges" [9]

"Coal-fired power plants are facing another crackdown as the Biden administration moves forward with plans to limit toxic discharges into lakes and rivers in a major strike at one of the largest sources of industrial water pollution."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 03/09/2023
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"Antarctic Sea Ice Cover At Record Low" [18]

"Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday."

Climate Change [19]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Source: AFP [23], 03/09/2023
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"Smoke From Australian Bushfires Depleted Ozone Layer By Up To 5% In 2020" [24]

"Particles in bushfire smoke can activate molecules that destroy the ozone layer, according to new research that suggests future ozone recovery may be delayed by increasingly intense and frequent fires."

Air [25]
Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [19]
Forests [27]
Science [20]
Public [15]
International [21]
Source: Guardian [28], 03/09/2023
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"US Carbon Pipeline Faces Setback As Residents Refuse To Cede Land Rights" [29]

"Navigator CO2 Ventures’ proposed carbon pipeline project in the U.S. Midwest is struggling to secure a site to store millions of tons of greenhouse gas it hopes to collect from the region’s ethanol plants, as residents refuse to give up land rights over fears the underground reservoirs could leak, according to documents reviewed by Reuters."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: , 03/09/2023
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"California Flood Watch Issued As Next Atmospheric River Looms" [30]

"Flood watch notices were posted across northern and central California for Thursday ahead of an atmospheric river storm expected to douse much of the state with heavy rain, including mountain areas still buried from a near-record snowfall."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
California [32]
Source: Reuters [33], 03/09/2023
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"Fossil Fuels Received £20Bn More UK Support Than Renewables Since 2015" [34]

"The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
Europe [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 03/09/2023
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"Federal Protection Granted For Imperiled Freshwater Mussels" [37]

"Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering out pollutants as they feed."

Biodiversity [38]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [40], 03/09/2023
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"Alaska Communities Try to Keep Their Whale Freezers Frozen" [41]

"In the face of melting permafrost, Iñupiat communities in Alaska find new solutions to keeping traditional ice cellars cold."

Climate Change [19]
Consumer [42]
Food [43]
Public [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
Source: High Country News [45], 03/09/2023
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NTSB Opens Special Probe Of Norfolk Southern Safety Practices And Culture [46]

"Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the nation’s biggest railroads following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month and several other accidents involving Norfolk Southern, including the death of a train conductor Tuesday."

Chemicals [26]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Transportation [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [49], 03/08/2023
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1,000 Super-Emitting Methane Leaks Risk Triggering Climate Tipping Points [50]

"Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating".

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
International [21]
Source: Guardian [51], 03/08/2023
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"The Creeping Threat Of The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt" [52]

"Visible from space, an explosion of harmful seaweed now stretches like a sea monster across the ocean. Could robots save us from it – and store carbon in the process?"

Agriculture [53]
Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [19]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Natural Resources [54]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [55], 03/08/2023
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New Scrutiny: Is California’s Antiquated Water Rights System Racist? [56]

"It’s an arcane system of water law that dates back to the birth of California — an era when 49ers used sluice boxes and water cannons to scour gold from Sierra Nevada foothills and when the state government promoted the extermination of Native people to make way for white settlers."

Agriculture [53]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Justice [57]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
California [32]
Source: LA Times [58], 03/08/2023
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"Tracking the Erratic Path of US Climate Migrants" [59]

"In The Great Displacement, Jake Bittle follows families displaced by flooding, drought and other disasters as the “next American migration” begins in earnest."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [31]
People & Population [60]
Planning & Growth [61]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg CityLab [62], 03/08/2023
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"Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate Costs" [63]

"For more than a decade, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave daily warnings about the mounting threat of climate change. Now he has a powerful new perch."

Climate Change [19]
Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [64]
Environmental Politics [65]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [66], 03/08/2023
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Time Running Out to Restore Plants, Animals That Exist Only in Captivity [67]

"At least 33 animals and 39 plants are extinct in the wild. But research suggests there is hope for restoring wild populations."

Biodiversity [38]
Wildlife [68]
Public [15]
International [21]
Source: The Revelator [69], 03/08/2023
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