EJToday: Top Headlines

How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy [9]

"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 [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Civil Eats [17], 03/11/2024
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"US Treasury Drops Plan to Collect Insurer Data on Climate Risks" [18]

"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 [11]
Disasters [19]
Infrastructure [20]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg [22], 03/11/2024
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"Oil Industry Has Sought To Block State Backing For Green Tech Since 1960s" [23]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Europe [25]
Source: Guardian [26], 03/11/2024
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Film Studio Aims To Stir Up ‘Populist Anger’ Over Climate Crisis [27]

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

Activism [28]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [29], 03/11/2024
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"US Natural Gas Pipeline Accidents Pose Big, Unreported Climate Threat" [30]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [20]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [32], 03/11/2024
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Tribes Meet With Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms of Uranium Mining [33]

"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 [34]
Environmental Justice [35]
Natural Resources [36]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [37]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 03/11/2024
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"New York City Ready to Expand Greenways Along Rivers, Railways and Parks" [39]

"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 [20]
Natural Resources [36]
People & Population [40]
Transportation [41]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 03/11/2024
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"Nearly Half the States Sue E.P.A. Over New Limits on Deadly Pollution" [44]

"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 [45]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [46], 03/08/2024
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"Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S." [47]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [41]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [48], 03/08/2024
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Secrecy Around Gas Export Terminals Leaves Public In The Dark On Dangers [49]

"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 [19]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Floodlight [50], 03/08/2024
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"How Climate Change Primed Texas To Burn" [51]

"The state's high plains get a month more fire weather now than they did in the 1970s."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [19]
Natural Resources [36]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
Source: Grist [53], 03/08/2024
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"Mass Die-Offs Among Farmed Salmon On The Rise Around The World" [54]

"Hundreds of millions of farmed salmon have perished in mass die-offs over the past decade, say researchers."

Climate Change [11]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Natural Resources [36]
Technology [56]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Canada [57]
Europe [25]
Source: BBC News [58], 03/08/2024
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Rare Gray Whale Seen Off Nantucket Is Good And Bad News, Says Cape Expert [59]

"An unusual visitor to local waters has caused a stir among the region's marine scientists: a gray whale. Researchers with the New England Aquarium's aerial survey team on Tuesday reported spotting the whale 30 miles south of Nantucket during a flight on Friday — a sighting they said is "incredibly rare," considering the species has been extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than two centuries."

Biodiversity [60]
Climate Change [11]
Natural Resources [36]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [61]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [62]
Source: Cape Cod Times [63], 03/08/2024
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Senate Passes Bill To Extend, Expand Compensation For Radiation Victims [64]

"The Senate passed a stand-alone bill to extend and expand a 30-year-old law compensating Americans exposed to radiation by the federal government in a 69-30 vote."

Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Justice [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [65], 03/08/2024
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"In Climate-Related Flooding, A Ugandan River Turns Poisonous" [66]

"Uganda’s Nyamwamba river, in the Rwenzori Mountains, has begun to flood catastrophically in recent years, partly due to climate change. Along the river are copper tailings pools from an old Canadian mining operation, which are becoming increasingly eroded by the flooding."

Chemicals [67]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [34]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
Africa [68]
Source: Mongabay [69], 03/08/2024
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