EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste" [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has formally denied Alabama’s plan to allow Alabama Power and other utilities to continue storing toxic coal ash in unlined pits at sites across the state."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 05/24/2024
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House GOP Farm Bill ‘Robs Peter To Pay Paul,’ Agriculture Secretary Says [20]

"The House Agriculture committee is trying to fund its farm bill proposals with “counterfeit money,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday morning. Vilsack spoke after a range of groups from across the political spectrum criticized House Republicans’ proposed farm bill, which seeks to direct tens of billions to subsidies for farmers of peanuts, rice and cotton."

Agriculture [21]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: The Hill [26], 05/24/2024
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"Bird Flu Found In Michigan Dairy Worker, Second U.S. Case In Two Months" [27]

"A Michigan dairy worker has been infected with a highly virulent bird flu, the second human case in less than two months of the H5N1 virus circulating among dairy cows."

Environmental Health [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [28], 05/24/2024
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Native American Tribes Approve Proposal Securing Colorado River Water [29]

"The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest -- a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress."

Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [31]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [34]
Source: AP [35], 05/24/2024
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Why Are Dead Baby Sea Lions Showing Up Along California Coastal Islands? [36]

"On May 7, Patrick Robinson took a boat out to Año Nuevo Island to survey the sea lions that come to birth on this rocky outcropping north of Monterey Bay. The shore was littered with dead pups — babies that looked as though they’d been delivered too early and therefore were too weak and small to nurse, or had been dead at birth."

Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Health [11]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [38]
Public [17]
California [39]
Source: LA Times [40], 05/24/2024
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"The Biden Administration Throws a Lifeline to the Greater Sage-Grouse" [41]

"Public asked to weigh in on new rule to limit development on the bird's habitat across much of the West".

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [37]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Sierra [42], 05/24/2024
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"Democrats Refer Big Oil Investigation To Justice Department" [43]

"Two congressional Democrats are asking the Justice Department to pick up where they’ve left off in a yearslong investigation into an alleged climate misinformation campaign perpetuated over decades by Big Oil."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [45]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: E&E News [46], 05/23/2024
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"Top Brands Buy Amazon Carbon Credits From Suspected Timber Laundering Scam" [47]

"An analysis of two carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon has found that they may be connected to illegal timber laundering."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [48]
Journalism & Media [44]
Pollution [14]
Public [17]
International [49]
South America [50]
Source: Mongabay [51], 05/23/2024
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Half Of World's Pastures Degraded By Overuse, Climate Change: UN Report [52]

"Half the world's natural pasture land has been degraded by overexploitation and the impact of climate change, putting food supplies and livelihoods in peril, the United Nations body in charge of fighting desertification said on Tuesday."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [53]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [49]
Source: Reuters [54], 05/23/2024
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"Migratory Freshwater Fish Populations ‘Down By More Than 80% Since 1970’" [55]

"Migratory fish populations have crashed by more than 80% since 1970, new findings show." "‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns".

Fish & Fisheries [56]
Infrastructure [32]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [49]
Source: Guardian [57], 05/23/2024
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"Where Heat Waves Might Cause Blackouts: Look Up Your Area" [58]

"Large swaths of California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas are projected to have to endure more than four months every year in which the temperature will be high enough to compromise power transformers, new research shows. As a result, blackouts caused by overheated electrical equipment could become more frequent by mid-century."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Infrastructure [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [59], 05/23/2024
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"Fast-Rising Seas Could Swamp Septic Systems In Parts Of The South" [60]

"On the worst days, when the backyard would flood and the toilet would gurgle and the smell of sewage hung thick in the air, Monica Arenas would flee to her mother-in-law’s home to use the bathroom or wash laundry."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [32]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Source: Washington Post [61], 05/23/2024
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Radioactive Sites Vulnerable As Climate Change Raises Wildfire, Flood Risks [62]

"As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [53]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [63]
Pollution [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [64], 05/23/2024
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Colo. Gov. Vetoes Bill To End State Incentives For ‘Advanced Recycling’ [65]

"Gov. Jared Polis vetoed legislation on Friday that would have banned state incentives for projects to process waste through pyrolysis and gasification — techniques to break down plastics using heat applied in low-oxygen environments."

Chemicals [66]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [25]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [67]
Source: CPR [68], 05/23/2024
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Mangroves Protect Communities From Storms. Half Are At Risk, Report Finds [69]

"Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems, with trees whose roots stretch down into brackish water, are at risk of collapse. That's according to the first assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a leading scientific authority on the status of species and ecosystems. The new report finds that sea level rise fueled by climate change is the biggest risk."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [22]
Fish & Fisheries [56]
Forests [48]
Infrastructure [32]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [49]
Source: NPR [70], 05/23/2024
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