EJToday: Top Headlines

"Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S." [9]

"Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture."

Journalism & Media [10]
Military [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 03/12/2024
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"Spring Starts Early As US Winter Was Warmest On Record" [16]

"Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter."

Climate Change [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [18], 03/11/2024
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Big Oil Faces Flood Of Climate Lawsuits — And They’re Moving Closer To Trial [19]

"A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [22], 03/11/2024
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Erratic Winters Threaten 8,000 kms Of Ice Roads Linking Canada’s North [23]

"Nearly all of the country’s winter roads could be unusable by 2080. Without them, deliveries of everything from diesel to school buses to hockey gear are up in the air".

Climate Change [17]
Infrastructure [24]
Transportation [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
Alaska and Hawaii [27]
Canada [28]
Source: The Narwhal [29], 03/11/2024
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"Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism" [30]

"A wash of Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in environmental journalism, and beyond. Are editorial firewalls up to the task?"

Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Politics [32]
Journalism & Media [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Civil Eats [33], 03/11/2024
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How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy [34]

"New research sheds light on the scope of the livestock industry’s influence over prominent agricultural research centers at two public universities. In a paper recently published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers detail how the meat industry funds credentialed academics to “obstruct unfavorable policies,” especially those targeting the industry’s largely unregulated methane emissions."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [32]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Civil Eats [36], 03/11/2024
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"US Treasury Drops Plan to Collect Insurer Data on Climate Risks" [37]

"The US government is stepping away from its effort to collect data on home insurance prices and availability at the Zip code level as premiums soar and climate risks to property intensify. Instead, it will join in a collaborative effort with state insurance regulators."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [38]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg [39], 03/11/2024
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"Oil Industry Has Sought To Block State Backing For Green Tech Since 1960s" [40]

"The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Europe [41]
Source: Guardian [42], 03/11/2024
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Film Studio Aims To Stir Up ‘Populist Anger’ Over Climate Crisis [43]

"Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’".

Activism [44]
Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [32]
Journalism & Media [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [45], 03/11/2024
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"US Natural Gas Pipeline Accidents Pose Big, Unreported Climate Threat" [46]

"Accidental pipeline leaks – caused by things like punctures, corrosion, severe weather and faulty equipment - happen routinely and are a climate menace that is not currently counted in the official U.S. tally of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Reuters examination of public data and regulatory documents."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Infrastructure [24]
Pollution [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [48], 03/11/2024
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Tribes Meet With Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms of Uranium Mining [49]

"As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands."

Environmental Health [50]
Environmental Justice [51]
Natural Resources [52]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [53]
Pollution [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 03/11/2024
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"New York City Ready to Expand Greenways Along Rivers, Railways and Parks" [55]

"Community organizers say the multi-use paths protected from vehicle traffic can connect the city’s boroughs and help increase climate resilience as rainfall, flooding and storms all become more intense."

Infrastructure [24]
Natural Resources [52]
People & Population [56]
Transportation [25]
Public [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 03/11/2024
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"Nearly Half the States Sue E.P.A. Over New Limits on Deadly Pollution" [59]

"Manufacturers and 24 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday over the Biden administration’s decision to tighten limits on fine industrial particles, one of the most common and deadliest forms of air pollution."

Air [60]
Environmental Health [50]
Environmental Politics [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [61], 03/08/2024
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"Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S." [62]

"Last year, Americans bought more than one million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country’s transition away from gas-powered vehicles."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Pollution [47]
Transportation [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [63], 03/08/2024
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Secrecy Around Gas Export Terminals Leaves Public In The Dark On Dangers [64]

"During a summer’s afternoon in 2022, a 450-foot fireball exploded at a liquefied natural gas terminal south of Houston, rocking sunbathers on Quintana Beach, adjacent to the Freeport LNG terminal, and rattling homes for miles around. Eighteen months later, residents around the plant have yet to receive any information directly from Freeport LNG about what caused the explosion, or what to do if it were to happen again ... ."

Disasters [38]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Floodlight [65], 03/08/2024
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