EJToday: Top Headlines

Some States Are Trying A New Approach To Recycling Plastic [9]

"After recycling's failure to appreciably reduce the amount of plastic the U.S. throws away, some states are taking a new approach, transferring the onus of recycling from consumers to product manufacturers."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [16], 05/30/2022
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"Tribal Request To Halt Arizona Copper Mine Work Is Denied" [17]

"A federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes to stop Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. from preparing a planned new Arizona copper mine’s site in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson."

Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
Source: AP [23], 05/30/2022
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"Judge Orders US To Decide If Wolverines Need Protection" [24]

"A federal judge has given U.S. wildlife officials 18 months to decide if wolverines should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, following years of dispute over how much risk climate change and other threats pose to the rare and elusive predators."

Wildlife [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Source: AP [27], 05/30/2022
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"Hurricane Agatha Poses Dangerous Flood Threat To Mexico" [28]

"There’s a chance the storm’s remnants will regenerate in the Gulf of Mexico this week"

"Hurricane warnings are in effect in Mexico’s Oaxaca state, where a rapidly strengthening Hurricane Agatha is expected to make landfall Monday near the town of Mazunte.
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mexico [32]
Source: Washington Post [33], 05/30/2022
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"A Waterway Project in Brazil Imperils a Vast Tropical Wetland" [34]

"The Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, has been battered in recent years by agricultural development, drought, and fire. Now, a push to turn the region’s key river into a waterway for soybean-laden barges threatens to alter the natural flows of this iconic ecosystem."

Natural Resources [21]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
South America [35]
Source: YaleE360 [36], 05/30/2022
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"Navajo Sign Water Rights Settlement With Utah, Feds" [37]

"Federal officials signed an agreement with leaders of the Navajo Nation on Friday that provides funding for clean drinking water infrastructure for reservation residents and resolves questions about longstanding Navajo claims to water rights in the drought-stricken U.S. West."

Environmental Justice [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
Source: AP [38], 05/30/2022
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"Supreme Court Rebuffs Republican-Led States On Greenhouse Gas Policy" [39]

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday let President Joe Biden's administration raise the cost estimate for the societal impact of greenhouse gases that federal agencies would be able to consider when drafting new regulations, rejecting a bid by Republican-led states to block the move."

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [40]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [41], 05/27/2022
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"Interior Moves Toward First Wind Lease Sales Off Calif. Coast" [42]

"The Interior Department today [Thursday] advanced the first-ever potential offshore wind lease sales in two regions adjoining the California coast."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Infrastructure [44]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
California [45]
Source: E&E News [46], 05/27/2022
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"White House Eyes Restarting Idle Refineries" [47]

"The Biden administration is reaching out to the oil industry to inquire about restarting shuttered refineries, as the White House scrambles to address record-high gasoline prices that are setting off political alarm bells ahead of the midterm elections."

Transportation [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg [49], 05/27/2022
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"How the Media Stokes Needless Fears About Sharks" [50]

"Sharks rarely bite people, so why are so many people afraid of them? It has a lot to do with the media, says shark scientist David Shiffman in a new book."
Biodiversity [51]
Environmental Politics [19]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Journalism & Media [53]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [54]
Source: The Revelator [55], 05/27/2022
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Repeated Fires Are Silencing The Amazon: New Acoustic Monitoring Study [56]

"The rainforest is dense with sound. Like musicians in an orchestra, each animal plays a part, occupying its own “acoustic niche” in both frequency and time. But repeated fires are silencing the symphony, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Biodiversity [51]
Disasters [30]
Forests [57]
Wildlife [25]
Public [14]
International [54]
South America [35]
Source: Mongabay [58], 05/27/2022
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"Tribes Celebrate Montana Land Ownership And Bison Range Restoration" [59]

"A narrow gravel road takes visitors zig-zagging up a mountain, alongside a creek, and, if they're lucky, they'll see buffalo roaming freely on the terrain. The bison range sits on more than 18,000 acres of undeveloped land in northwest Montana — land taken by the U.S. Government without the consent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes."

Environmental Justice [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [60]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [61], 05/27/2022
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CDC IDs 9 Suspected Monkeypox Cases In US Amid Signs Of Local Spread [62]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that nine suspected cases of monkeypox have been detected in seven states as of Wednesday, as global health authorities confront an unprecedented spread of the virus."

Biodiversity [51]
Environmental Health [63]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [64], 05/27/2022
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"Federal Government Sues Alaska Over Subsistence" [65]

"Subsistence is vitally important to villages, as it is to the economy of all of rural Alaska. It's also deeply ingrained in Indigenous way of life". "When fish numbers are low, who gets to continue to harvest fish in rural Alaska? Federal agencies say only local, rural residents. The state of Alaska says all Alaskans."

Environmental Justice [18]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [60]
Public [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [66]
Source: Indian Country Today [67], 05/27/2022
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"Climate Change Leads to Decline in Lichen Biocrusts" [68]

"As summer temperatures continue to rise, important biocrust-forming organisms in the American Southwest may be lost."

"Biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, are communities of living organisms at the soil surface and are known as the “living skin” of dryland ecosystems. They cement soil grains together, thereby protecting dryland soils from erosion. Biocrusts also add critical nutrients to the soil by converting nitrogen in the atmosphere to ammonia, which serves as a kind of fertilizer for plants and microbes.
Biodiversity [51]
Climate Change [29]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Eos [69], 05/27/2022
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