EJToday: Top Headlines

Calif. Communities Fight The Last Toxic Battery Recycling Plant In The West [9]

"Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [18]
Source: Grist [19], 04/23/2024
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Huge Green Energy Transmission Project Will Cut Through SW Indigenous Lands [20]

"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."

Activism [21]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
International [24]
Source: Grist [25], 04/23/2024
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"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia" [26]

"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."

Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Waste [27]
Public [16]
Asia [28]
Australia & Oceania [29]
Europe [30]
Source: DW [31], 04/23/2024
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"The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary" [32]

"A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well."

Biodiversity [33]
Disasters [34]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Hakai [38], 04/23/2024
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"How Scientists Are Learning To Eavesdrop On The Sounds Of Soil" [39]

"The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dog’s toy repeatedly being chewed."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Studies [40]
Natural Resources [35]
Science [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [24]
Source: Guardian [42], 04/23/2024
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"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’" [43]

"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [44], 04/22/2024
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Biden Shields Millions of Acres in Alaska From Drilling and Mining [45]

"The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope."

Climate Change [46]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [47]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 04/22/2024
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"Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms" [50]

"Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment."

Agriculture [51]
Consumer [52]
Environmental Health [13]
Food [53]
Journalism & Media [54]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [55], 04/22/2024
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"Pennsylvania’s First Proposed Chemical Recycling Plant Cancelled" [56]

"Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [46]
Consumer [52]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [47]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Waste [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [57]
Source: EHN [58], 04/22/2024
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Earth Day: A Senator More Than 50 Years Ago Got People Fighting For Planet [59]

"Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms."

Activism [21]
Biodiversity [33]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [46]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [47]
Journalism & Media [54]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [24]
Source: AP [60], 04/22/2024
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"3 Offshore Wind Projects Nixed In New York" [61]

"New York canceled power contracts for three offshore wind projects Friday, citing a turbine maker’s plans to scrap its biggest machines." "It’s a major blow to New York’s climate plan and to President Joe Biden’s energy ambitions."

Climate Change [46]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [62]
Source: E&E News [63], 04/22/2024
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RFK Jr.’s Onetime Allies In Green Advocacy Call For Him To Drop Out [64]

"Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected."

Environmental Politics [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: CNN [65], 04/22/2024
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Heat Caused Record-High Rates Of ER Visits In Parts Of US Last Year: CDC [66]

"Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country."

Climate Change [46]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [24]
Source: CNN [67], 04/22/2024
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Biden Marks Earth Day By Announcing $7 Billion In Solar Power Grants [68]

"President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program."

Climate Change [46]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [47]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [69]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [70], 04/22/2024
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"San Francisco Mayor Announces The City Will Receive Pandas From China" [71]

"San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”"

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Politics [47]
Government [72]
Natural Resources [35]
Wildlife [73]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [24]
Asia [28]
Source: AP [74], 04/22/2024
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