EJToday: Top Headlines

"Plastic Certificates: Greenwashing Or A Step To Climate Neutrality?" [9]

"A new brand of offsetting allows companies to call themselves "plastic-neutral" while continuing to use plastic themselves. What's it all about?"

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Waste [16]
Public [17]
International [18]
Source: DW [19], 09/08/2022
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"Historic, Unforgiving Western Heat Wave Is Peaking And Crushing Records" [20]

"A historically severe September heat wave is baking the West, breaking hundreds of records, posing a danger to public health and pushing California’s power grid to the limit. Some records have been shattered by wide margins as the scorching air mass exacerbates the fire danger in the drought-stricken region."

Agriculture [21]
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Forests [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Washington Post [27], 09/07/2022
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"U.N. Inspectors Call for Security Zone Around Nuclear Plant" [28]

"Shelling at a nuclear plant in Ukraine has “gravely concerned” international monitors who believe a security protection zone should be established immediately, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency said in a report on Tuesday after inspectors visited the embattled Zaporizhzhia facility."

Disasters [23]
Infrastructure [29]
Military [30]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Public [17]
Europe [32]
Source: NYTimes [33], 09/07/2022
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Thwaites "Doomsday Glacier" Disintegrating Faster Than Thought [34]

"Antarctica's so-called "doomsday glacier" -- nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level -- has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists say, amplifying concerns over the extreme sea level rise that would accompany its potential demise."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
International [18]
Source: CNN [35], 09/07/2022
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Billion-Dollar Plant: Plastics Recycling - Or 'Sustainability Fraud'? [36]

"Gov. Wolf touted jobs and less plastic pollution when the plans were announced in April, but a professor from Carnegie Mellon who’s studied the technology says it can lead to “sustainability fraud.”"

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [37]
Pollution [38]
Technology [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 09/07/2022
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"Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy" [41]

"Across Central Europe, companies are clear-cutting forests and grinding up centuries-old trees in the name of renewable energy."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Forests [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [17]
Europe [32]
Source: NYTimes [43], 09/07/2022
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"Clean Energy Projects Surge After Climate Bill Passage" [44]

"In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [45], 09/07/2022
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"GAO: Trump Team Bogged Down Sensitive Interior Grants" [46]

"Trump administration officials frustrated Interior Department career staff by impeding certain grant decisions involving several agencies, auditors found in a review of the department’s wide-ranging grant programs."

Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [47], 09/07/2022
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"DNC Weighs Manchin's Permitting Reform Deal" [48]

"The Democratic National Committee will vote this week on a resolution opposing a push by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) to overhaul the nation's permitting process for energy infrastructure."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [37]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Washington Post [49], 09/07/2022
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"Heat Pumps Should Be Key To Truss’s Energy Strategy, Urges Expert" [50]

"Heat pumps need to be at the heart of any new energy strategy, to keep Britain’s homes warm and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but so far there is little sign of the policy measures needed, one of the UK’s leading heating experts has warned."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
Europe [32]
Source: Guardian [51], 09/07/2022
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"Group Seeks Endangered Species Protection For West Coast Bull Kelp" [52]

"An environmental group is seeking Endangered Species Act protections for underwater forests of bull kelp along the West Coast." "Bull kelp is critical to Oregon coastal ecosystems that historically supported sea otters, urchins and sunflower sea stars."

Biodiversity [53]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [42]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: OPB [54], 09/07/2022
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"Biden, Remaking Climate Team, Picks John Podesta to Guide Spending" [55]

"President Biden on Friday appointed John Podesta, a veteran Washington insider who spearheaded the Obama administration’s climate strategy, to oversee the federal investment of $370 billion in clean energy under a landmark new climate law."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [37]
Government [56]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [57], 09/06/2022
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"White House Announces Regulations, DOE Nominees" [58]

"President Joe Biden has selected environmental law expert Richard Revesz to lead his regulatory office, a move widely seen as a victory for the establishment wing over the progressive wing of the Democratic Party."

Environmental Politics [37]
Government [56]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [59], 09/06/2022
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What Will New UK PM Liz Truss Do On Climate, Environment? [60]

"Liz Truss faces a daunting array of environmental crises, from energy supply to sewage spills on British beaches, with little to show that she has the inclination to take them on."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [37]
Government [56]
Public [17]
Europe [32]
Source: Guardian [61], 09/06/2022
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"Chileans Resoundingly Reject New Progressive Constitution" [62]

"Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a new progressive era."

Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [17]
South America [63]
Source: AP [64], 09/06/2022
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