EJToday: Top Headlines

‘Control The Narrative’: Alabama Utility Wields Influence By Financing News [9]

"A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution".

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
Source: Guardian [22], 01/18/2024
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"EU Bans ‘Misleading’ Environmental Claims That Rely On Offsetting" [23]

"Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [19]
Europe [25]
Source: Guardian [26], 01/18/2024
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Analysis: "Bird Populations Are Declining. Some Are In Your Neighborhood." [27]

"I’m on a Zoom call with a team of researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, their gridded video feeds a sort of Hollywood Squares of bird nerds, and we’re discussing the decline and fall of North America’s bird population — a staggering loss of 3 billion breeding adults, or nearly 30 percent of the population, in just a half century — when all of a sudden Gus Axelson picks up his binoculars and peers out the window."

Biodiversity [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Wildlife [30]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [31], 01/18/2024
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Scientist Mann’s Defamation Case Over Online Attacks Finally Comes To Trial [32]

"A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week." "The case comes amid concerns that online abuse of climate scientists has increased in recent years while misinformation about the climate crisis is also on the rise."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Science [33]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [34], 01/18/2024
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"These Startups Are Teaming Up To Decarbonize Cement And Concrete" [35]

"Cement and concrete are essential building blocks of modern society — and they’re both extremely carbon-intensive to produce. In recent years, startups across the country have begun devising novel ways of making low-carbon construction materials, including by using methods that mimic coral reefs, recycle industrial waste or replace fossil-fueled kilns with electricity."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Technology [37]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Canary Media [38], 01/18/2024
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"Markets And Forests: 7 Takeaways From Our Series On The Forest Carbon Trade" [39]

"Mongabay recently published a five-part series on the carbon trade and its use as a tool to address climate change. The exchange of carbon credits, typically used to offset emissions, bore unprecedented criticism in 2023."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [40]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [29]
Public [19]
International [41]
Source: Mongabay [42], 01/18/2024
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Pentagon Will Install Rooftop Solar Panels As Biden Pushes Clean Energy [43]

"The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Government [44]
Infrastructure [16]
Military [45]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [46], 01/18/2024
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"A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer" [47]

"The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen who oppose a government fee that they consider unreasonable. But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [49], 01/17/2024
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API Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure [50]

"The American Petroleum Institute, at its annual “State of American Energy” event, launched a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz to make the case for expanded U.S. fossil fuel exploration, production and exports."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [51]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 01/17/2024
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Record-Shattering 2023 Heat Has Scientists On Edge: Warming May Be Worsening [53]

"The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that what’s behind those numbers could be even worse."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [54]
Science [33]
Public [19]
International [41]
Source: AP [55], 01/17/2024
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New Flu Strain Is Attacking Hundreds Of Animal Species. Humans Could Be Next [56]

"An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including elephant seals."

Biodiversity [28]
Disasters [54]
Environmental Health [13]
Wildlife [30]
Public [19]
International [41]
Source: Washington Post [57], 01/17/2024
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"Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting Lives Globally" [58]

"The United Nations estimates that 1.84 billion people worldwide, or nearly a quarter of humanity, were living under drought in 2022 and 2023, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries." "The crisis, worsened partly by climate change, has been accompanied by soaring food prices and could have consequences for hunger, elections and migration worldwide."

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [24]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [54]
Environmental Health [13]
Food [60]
Natural Resources [29]
Planning & Growth [61]
Public [19]
International [41]
Source: NYTimes [62], 01/17/2024
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Crop-Killing Weeds Advance Across US Farms As Chemicals Lose Effectiveness [63]

"Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer and Corteva can develop new ones to fight them."

Agriculture [59]
Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [51]
Technology [37]
Water & Oceans [64]
Wildlife [30]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [65], 01/17/2024
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First US Uranium Mines in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon [66]

"The push for more nuclear energy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spiked uranium prices, leading mines for the element to begin operating again in the U.S. despite long-term environmental and health impacts."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Natural Resources [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [67]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 01/17/2024
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Shell To Sell Nigeria Oil Business; Greens Want Pollution Cleaned Up First [70]

"Shell said Tuesday it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its exposure in the West African nation amid long-running complaints of environmental pollution caused by the oil industry."

Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Justice [14]
Pollution [51]
Public [19]
Africa [71]
Source: AP [72], 01/17/2024
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