EJToday: Top Headlines

"How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails" [9]

"America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned."

Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [11]
Transportation [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 10/10/2022
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"Biden's New Arctic Strategy Foresees Competition With Russia, China" [17]

"The United States on Friday unveiled a new strategy for the Arctic that foresees increasing competition with Russia and China in the strategic U.S. government presence in the Arctic region as region."

Climate Change [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [20]
Antarctica & Arctic [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 10/10/2022
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"Flush With Cash, EPA Could Toughen Methane Rules" [23]

"Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, EPA is slated to receive a windfall of more than $40 billion over the next 10 years. Americans could get a hint next week whether the extra money is going to translate into tougher regulations for air quality and climate change."

Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [25], 10/10/2022
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Newsom Calls Special Session To Consider Windfall Tax On Oil Companies [26]

"Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he would call a special session of the Legislature to consider a windfall profit tax on oil companies in response to the “outrageous and unconscionable” price of gas in California."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [15]
Source: Politico [29], 10/10/2022
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Developers Loom As Boy Scouts Sell Land to Compensate Assault Victims [30]

"Conservation groups rush to preserve camps across the United States as some properties sell to the highest bidder. Will they succeed?"

Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [19]
Planning & Growth [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Revelator [32], 10/10/2022
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"Town Employee Quietly Lowered Fluoride In Water For Years" [33]

"Residents of a small community in Vermont were blindsided last month by news that one official in their water department quietly lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago, giving rise to worries about their children’s dental health and transparent government — and highlighting the enduring misinformation around water fluoridation."

Activism [34]
Chemicals [35]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [37]
Infrastructure [11]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [39], 10/10/2022
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"Prolonged Drought Brings Famine, Death and Fear to Somalia" [40]

"DOLLOW, Somalia — A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [41]
Food [42]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
Africa [43]
Source: AP [44], 10/07/2022
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"Biden Says the U.S. Is Eyeing ‘Alternatives’ to OPEC Oil" [45]

"President Biden on Thursday defended his visit to Saudi Arabia this summer, in the wake of Wednesday’s decision by the Saudi-led cartel of oil-producing nations to cut production, which will likely raise gasoline prices in the United States."

Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [10]
Military [46]
Transportation [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [20]
Source: NYTimes [47], 10/07/2022
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"Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds" [48]

"Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to occur as they would have been more than a century ago, scientists said Wednesday. It’s the latest evidence of how climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is imperiling food, water and electricity supplies around the world."

Agriculture [49]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [37]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
International [20]
Source: NYTimes [50], 10/07/2022
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California Spends Billions Rebuilding Burned Towns. Should It Quit? [51]

"Before the Dixie fire came barreling through the Sierra Nevada last year, leveling everything here but a few houses, businesses and a school, this was a charming — if dying — Gold Rush-era town that about 800 people called home. Now, much of the charm is gone along with most of the residents, replaced by the skeletal remains of conifer trees and the deathly silence of block after empty block."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [15]
Source: LA Times [53], 10/07/2022
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"Disputed Gas Pipeline Seen Surviving Without Congress or Manchin" [54]

"Efforts to speed a long-delayed, overbudget natural gas project in Sen. Joe Manchin’s home state by revamping federal permitting rules will play out in agencies and courts for now, after Congress balked last month."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [19]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [55]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [56], 10/07/2022
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US Purchases $290 Million Worth Of Drug For Use In Nuclear Emergencies [57]

"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it has spent $290 million on a drug to treat radiation sickness in the event of a nuclear emergency."

Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [37]
Government [58]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [59]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [60], 10/07/2022
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"Mexico's Pemex Has No Record Of Reporting Methane Leak From Oilfield" [61]

"Pemex did not inform Mexico's environmental regulator of a methane leak from at a key offshore oilfield in December, according to the state oil company's response to a freedom of information request, which confirmed an earlier Reuters report that the regulator had no record of the incident."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [62]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
Mexico [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 10/07/2022
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"After the Storm, the Mold: Warming Is Worsening Another Costly Disaster" [65]

"Mold in homes is a costly crisis that often accompanies hurricanes and flooding, and climate change is amplifying the rain that feeds outbreaks."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [37]
Pollution [62]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [66], 10/07/2022
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"Sydney Beats 1950 Rainfall Record With 3 Wet Months To Spare" [67]

"Australia’s largest city, Sydney, has been soaked by its wettest year on record with almost three months of expected above-average rain to spare."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [41]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
Australia & Oceania [68]
Source: AP [69], 10/07/2022
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