EJToday: Top Headlines

"Incarcerated People Are Drinking Unsafe Water in Illinois State Prisons" [9]

"Brian Harrington entered the Illinois Department of Corrections system in 2007 at age 14, sentenced to 25 years in prison. ... He remembers the toilet water being brown—and sometimes the drinking water, too. He recalls the tap water’s sewer smell and the black specks swirling, then settling, in his cup."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: Sierra [20], 08/05/2024
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"ABC Host Reportedly Received Death Threats After Trump Interview" [21]

"ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming."

Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [24], 08/05/2024
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Belgian and Swiss Triathletes Fall Ill Following Race In River Seine [25]

"Belgium has withdrawn from the mixed relay triathlon race on Monday and Switzerland has had to mix up its roster after athletes from both countries fell ill following the initial triathlon races last week."

Environmental Health [10]
Journalism & Media [23]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Europe [26]
Source: CNN [27], 08/05/2024
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‘A Matter Of Life And Death’: How Disaster Response Endangers US Farmworkers [28]

"When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last summer, a tree fell straight through a trailer occupied by a migrant-farmworker family in Hamilton County. They couldn’t afford to move, even temporarily, so the family of six just picked up the things they could salvage and continued to live around the rotting tree."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Grist [32], 08/05/2024
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"Fire Season’s Front-Line Workers Get Organized" [33]

"After wildland firefighter Ben McLane fought California’s deadliest fire, he started second-guessing his line of work. The November 2018 Camp Fire near Paradise had killed 85 and leveled 18,000 homes. McLane was used to hiking steep terrain and digging endless fire breaks. He was accustomed to the spectacle of entire hillsides of pine and fir aflame. He wasn’t used to this scale of devastation — or feeling he’d worked in vain. Meanwhile, he rarely saw his family, and couldn’t fathom affording a house. Was firefighting worth it?"

Activism [34]
Climate Change [30]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Natural Resources [36]
People & Population [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Capital & Main [37], 08/05/2024
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In Mexico City, Women Water Harvesters Help Make Up For Drought [38]

"Driven by prolonged drought and inconsistent public water delivery, many Mexico City residents are turning to rainwater. Pioneering company Isla Urbana, which does both nonprofit and for-profit work, has installed more than 40,000 rain catchment systems across Mexico since the company was founded 15 years ago. And Mexico City’s government has invested in the installation of 70,000 systems since 2019, still a drop in the bucket for the sprawling metropolis of around 9 million."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [35]
Infrastructure [12]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Mexico [39]
Source: AP [40], 08/05/2024
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Historic Prisoner Swap Sees American Journalists, Others Freed From Russia [41]

"The U.S. on Thursday confirmed a historic prisoner swap with Russia that included the release of American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and permanent resident Vladimir Kara-Murza."

Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [42]
Source: VOA [43], 08/02/2024
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"Harris Courts Swing Voters With Fracking Reversal" [44]

"Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue. The rightward shift comes as she tries to court swing voters in states like Pennsylvania."

Energy & Fuel [45]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [46], 08/02/2024
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US Forest Service Failing To Protect Old Growth Trees From Logging: Critics [47]

"Biden’s efforts to save mature trees are not getting enough Forest Service support, according to some conservationists"

Environmental Politics [22]
Forests [48]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [49], 08/02/2024
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"Michigan Notches A Victory In Effort To Rein In Polluting Farm Waste" [50]

"In a rare rebuke to the industrial farm sector, the Michigan Supreme Court this week ruled that state environmental regulators have full authority to require livestock and poultry operations to improve their handling of billions of pounds of manure that contributes to contamination of waterways."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [51]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: The New Lede [52], 08/02/2024
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"Senate Unanimously Passes Biannual Water Projects Bill" [53]

"The Senate on Thursday unanimously reauthorized the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), the biennial legislation authorizing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects."

Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Transportation [54]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [55], 08/02/2024
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"Court Stymies EPA Enforcement Push At ‘Cancer Alley’ Plant" [56]

"A federal appellate court has effectively blocked EPA from swift enforcement of stricter regulations on a Louisiana synthetic rubber manufacturer that has featured prominently in the Biden administration’s campaign to target pollution in the area often dubbed “Cancer Alley.”

Chemicals [51]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: E&E News [57], 08/02/2024
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North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for PFAS [58]

"The North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has privately leaned on the state’s powerful Environmental Management Commission to delay critical PFAS rules, emails obtained under state public records law show, including providing members with the résumé of a scientist who has downplayed the toxicity of the compounds."

Chemicals [51]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 08/02/2024
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"Andean Glacier Retreat Unprecedented In Human Civilization, Study Finds" [60]

"Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on Thursday."

Climate Change [30]
Natural Resources [36]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
South America [61]
Source: Reuters [62], 08/02/2024
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Sea Lions Stranding On Calif. Coast With Signs Of Poisoning By Harmful Algae [63]

"Sea lions are stranding themselves on a long stretch of the California coast and showing signs that they may have been poisoned by a bloom of harmful algae, experts said Thursday."

Biodiversity [64]
Climate Change [30]
Disasters [35]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [65]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [66]
Source: AP [67], 08/02/2024
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