EJToday: Top Headlines

Colorado Enviro Group Sues Corps Of Engineers Over $2B River Diversion Plan [9]

"A Colorado environmental group is asking a federal judge to strike down a $2 billion plan that would reroute river water to the state’s expanding northern communities."

Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [15]
Source: The Hill [16], 01/30/2024
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Viral Pork TikToks? It’s a Government-Backed Group Pushing Meat On Gen Z. [17]

"Ad campaigns from controversial quasi-government programs for pork, dairy, and beef are raising new questions around the checkoff program’s foray into social media."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Food [22]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Politico [25], 01/30/2024
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NC PFAS Factory Claims Emissions Fell By 99.99%. Guardian Shows Otherwise [26]

"Chemours and state regulators say the Fayetteville Works plant has reduced air emissions, but we found levels of 'forever chemicals' as much as 30 times higher than state tests".

Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [28]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 01/30/2024
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"First Penguins Die In Antarctic Of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Strain" [31]

"With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies".

Biodiversity [32]
Environmental Health [21]
Wildlife [33]
Public [14]
International [34]
Antarctica & Arctic [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 01/30/2024
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Rice Hidden By Women Fleeing Slavery In The 1700s Could Help Descendants [37]

"Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis".

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [20]
Food [22]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
South America [38]
Source: Guardian [39], 01/30/2024
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Great Basin Tribes Want Massacre Site In Nevada Named National Monument [40]

"White attackers turned a lush, high desert oasis in eastern Nevada, with its bubbling springs and a rare stand of Rocky Mountain junipers, into killing fields. They massacred hundreds of Native people there in the 1800s — a horrific history once retold in hushed tones behind closed doors."

Environmental Justice [41]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [15]
Source: AP [43], 01/30/2024
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"That Giant Extinct Shark, Megalodon? Maybe It Wasn't So Mega" [44]

"The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like."

Biodiversity [32]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [34]
Source: NPR [46], 01/30/2024
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"Biden Administration Pauses Approvals of New Gas Export Terminals" [47]

"President Biden on Friday paused the permitting process for new liquefied natural gas export facilities in order to analyze their impact on climate change, the economy and national security."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [48]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [49], 01/29/2024
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"The Propane Industry Is Trying To Dupe You" [50]

"Members of a propane industry lobbying group strategized to downplay the full climate impacts of propane and market it as “renewable” or “clean energy”, recordings reviewed by the climate newsletter Heated and the Guardian reveal."

Climate Change [19]
Consumer [20]
Energy & Fuel [48]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: HEATED [51], 01/29/2024
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Bayer Ordered To Pay $2.25B As Jury Links Herbicide Roundup To Cancer [52]

"A jury handed down a $2.25 billion verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto, according to the lawyers of a man who said he developed cancer from using the company’s weed killer, Roundup."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [53], 01/29/2024
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Demand Has Plunged 80% Since California Cut Home Solar Payments [54]

"As rooftop solar projects have plummeted, about 17,000 workers could lose their jobs. Will this derail the state’s climate and clean energy goals?"

Climate Change [19]
Consumer [20]
Energy & Fuel [48]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
California [55]
Source: CalMatters [56], 01/29/2024
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Texas Companies Released 1 Million Pounds Of Excess Pollution During Cold [57]

"Frigid weather this month caused industrial facilities across Texas to release unplanned air pollution as machinery froze, power went out and icy conditions blocked service crews."

Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [58]
Source: Texas Tribune/ICN [59], 01/29/2024
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"Since Ohio Train Derailment, Accidents Have Gone Up, Not Down" [60]

"The total number of accidents for the top five freight railroads increased, and Congress still hasn’t passed legislation to prevent similar disasters."

Chemicals [27]
Disasters [61]
Energy & Fuel [48]
Environmental Health [21]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Transportation [62]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [63], 01/29/2024
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Avian Flu Devastates Farms In Calif. ‘Egg Basket,’ Roiling Poultry Industry [64]

"Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu. Following government rules, Weber’s company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying hens — 550,000 birds — to prevent the disease from infecting other farms in Sonoma County north of San Francisco."

Agriculture [18]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [55]
Source: AP [65], 01/29/2024
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"What Are The Odds That Extreme Weather Will Lead To A Global Food Shock?" [66]

"Envision, for a moment, a multiyear period of extreme weather, including heat waves, freezes, droughts, floods, and windstorms, topped off by extreme weather during an El Niño event, leading to major crop failures in the U.S. A disruption of the global agricultural and food supply chain results, leading to panic buying and price shocks."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [61]
Food [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [34]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [67], 01/29/2024
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