EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Grants Expose Cybersecurity, Trade Secrets to Foreign Threat" [9]

"The EPA’s internal watchdog is growing increasingly worried about hostile nations stealing sensitive information from groups that get agency funding, according to an official with the Inspector General’s office."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 05/24/2023
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"Colorado River Water Sharing Agreement Likely Dodges Legal Fight" [16]

"A messy Colorado River legal fight is much less likely in the near term now that the seven river basin states have reached consensus on how to conserve water amid a historic 23-year drought, legal observers say."

Agriculture [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [19], 05/24/2023
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CEO Of Top Carbon Credit Certifier To Resign After Claims Offsets Worthless [20]

"The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month." "David Antonioli to step down from Verra, which was accused of approving millions of worthless offsets used by major companies".

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: Guardian [24], 05/24/2023
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"Maine Plans Removal Of PFAS From Sewage Sludge Used As Fertilizer" [25]

"Utility officials in Maine and elsewhere around the country are developing first-of-their-kind plans to eliminate toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” from sewage sludge spread as fertilizer on farmland."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [26]
Consumer [27]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [30]
Source: Guardian [31], 05/24/2023
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"America’s Big Shift To Green Energy Has A Woolly Mammoth Problem" [32]

"America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transmission lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [36], 05/24/2023
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7 States Reach Colorado River Deal, Bringing Big Water Cuts For 3 Years [37]

"The seven states that depend on the Colorado River announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement on cutting water use from the river over the next three years to prevent reservoirs from falling to critically low levels."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [35]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: LA Times [39], 05/23/2023
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Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought [40]

"In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources for fracking, a new analysis shows."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 05/23/2023
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"Global Heating Will Push Billions Outside ‘Human Climate Niche’" [43]

"Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [28]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: Guardian [44], 05/23/2023
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WMO: 2M Killed, $4.3 Trillion In Damages From Extreme Weather Over 50 Years [45]

"The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the globe that have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [28]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: AP [46], 05/23/2023
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Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware Won’t Seek Reelection [47]

"Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper’s announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest for the seat he has held since 2001 in heavily-blue Delaware."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [48], 05/23/2023
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Oak Flat: "Biden Admin Hits Pause On Ariz. Copper Mine" [49]

"The Biden administration has paused finalizing an environmental impact statement for a controversial copper mine in Arizona in order to meet with opposing tribes and review the Forest Service’s consultation."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [50]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
Source: E&E News [53], 05/23/2023
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"Chemours’ PFAS Challenge Affects Semiconductors, State Cleanups" [54]

"The outcome of a Chemours Co. lawsuit challenging a PFAS health advisory the EPA set for drinking water could affect cleanups, public health, and regulatory processes, attorneys said in recent interviews. The lawsuit focuses on a particular PFAS used to make a type of chemical, perfluoroalkoxy alkanes (PFA), important to the semiconductor industry."

Chemicals [26]
Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [29]
Technology [55]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [56], 05/23/2023
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"Food Prices Are Still High. What Role Do Corporate Profits Play?" [57]

"After more than two years of cost increases, Americans are finally feeling relief at the grocery store as food inflation cooled off for the first time in March and then again in April." "Corporate food companies have made record profits these last few years, and they’re hoping it stays that way."

Agriculture [17]
Consumer [27]
Economy & Business [22]
Food [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Civil Eats [59], 05/23/2023
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"Why Tree-Planting Schemes Aren’t a Silver Bullet" [60]

"Numerous global reforestation efforts are underway, but research suggests getting long-term benefits is harder than it looks, and some projects can do more harm than good."

Biodiversity [61]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [28]
Forests [62]
Natural Resources [35]
Science [63]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: The Revelator [64], 05/23/2023
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"The Scientist And The Bats" [65]

"Funders thought watching bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the mystery of a deadly virus."

Biodiversity [61]
Environmental Health [28]
Natural Resources [35]
Science [63]
Wildlife [66]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: ProPublica [67], 05/23/2023
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