EJToday: Top Headlines

"Border Plant Joins ESA List Despite Texas AG’s Objections" [9]

"The Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday dismissed border-control concerns raised by the Texas attorney general and announced federal protections for the prostrate milkweed, along with a designated critical habitat of 661 acres for the plant."

Biodiversity [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: E&E News [15], 02/28/2023
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"Warm Canadian Winter Threatens Algonquin Ice-Fishing Traditions" [16]

"Most winters, at least once a week, Mike Diabo will snowmobile to the shores of one of his local lakes in southern Quebec, carry his fishing gear across the frozen surface, and drill down through the ice to reveal the dark water beneath."

Climate Change [17]
Fish & Fisheries [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
Canada [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 02/28/2023
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"After Ohio Train Wreck, Biden Orders Door-To-Door Checks" [22]

"President Joe Biden on Friday directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a heated political controversy."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Transportation [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Source: AP [28], 02/27/2023
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"In India, ‘Phase Down’ Of Coal Actually Means Rapid Expansion Of Mining" [29]

"A tripling of size is planned at the fastest-growing coal mine in India".

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Public [12]
International [31]
Asia [32]
Source: Washington Post [33], 02/27/2023
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"As Fatal Fungus Takes Its Toll, Can We Save Frog Species on the Brink?" [34]

"The deadly chytrid fungus has wiped out as many as 90 species of amphibians. Now researchers from Australia to California are exploring a host of ways to save threatened frog populations — from relocation to safer habitats to reintroducing frogs treated with a sort of vaccine."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Health [25]
Natural Resources [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [12]
International [31]
Source: YaleE360 [37], 02/27/2023
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"Here Comes The Haboob: Texas High Plains Getting Walloped By Dust Storms" [38]

"High Plains residents are used to wind and dust, but an ongoing drought and recent tropical-storm-level winds have brought some epic dust storms."

Agriculture [39]
Air [40]
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [25]
Pollution [41]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: Texas Tribune [42], 02/27/2023
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Bacteria Measurements Shows High Amounts Of Dog Feces On NY City Sidewalks [43]

"A pair of natural science researchers from Marymount Manhattan College has found that high levels of dog feces landing on sidewalks in New York city has resulted in high levels of bacteria in homes and businesses."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Health [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
Source: Phys.org [45], 02/27/2023
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Despite 1996 Law, EPA Still Hasn't Tested Pesticides For Hormone Impacts [46]

"New lawsuit aims to make the agency do what Congress ordered more than 25 years ago."

"In 1996, Congress ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test all pesticides used on food for endocrine disruption by 1999. The EPA still doesn’t do this today.

Nor does it appear close to doing so, argue the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the agency in December for its ongoing failure to implement the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.
Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [23]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [25]
Food [48]
Science [49]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: EHN [50], 02/27/2023
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"As Oil Companies Stay Lean, Workers Move to Renewable Energy" [51]

"Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Infrastructure [52]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [53], 02/27/2023
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"Plastic Consumption On Course To Nearly Double By 2050 - Research" [54]

"Plastic use in G20 countries is on course to nearly double by the middle of the century unless a comprehensive and legally binding global treaty to curb consumption is drawn up, according to research published on Monday."

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [47]
Pollution [41]
Waste [55]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
International [31]
Source: Reuters [56], 02/27/2023
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"Thunberg, Indigenous Protesters Block Norway Energy Ministry Over Wind Farms" [57]

"Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg and dozens of other activists on Monday blocked entrances to Norway's energy ministry, protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by indigenous Sami reindeer herders."

Activism [58]
Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Justice [59]
Infrastructure [52]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [60]
Wildlife [36]
Public [12]
International [31]
Antarctica & Arctic [61]
Source: Reuters [62], 02/27/2023
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Hurricane Winds Will Hit New Places In Coming Decades. Check Your Zip [63]

"Hurricane winds fueled by climate change will reach further inland and put tens of millions more Americans’ lives and homes at risk in the next three decades, according to a detailed new analysis released Monday."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [64], 02/27/2023
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"This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk" [65]

"Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment."

Chemicals [23]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: ProPublica [66], 02/24/2023
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Earlier Warning Might Have Spared Ohio A Derailment, Investigator Says [67]

"A U.S. train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in an Ohio town might have been avoided if the railway company's alarm system had given engineers an earlier warning that bearings were overheating, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday with the release of a preliminary investigation."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Government [68]
Infrastructure [52]
Pollution [41]
Transportation [26]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [69], 02/24/2023
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US Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck Plugging Them In. [70]

"An explosion in proposed clean energy ventures has overwhelmed the system for connecting new power sources to homes and businesses."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Government [68]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [71], 02/24/2023
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