EJToday: Top Headlines

"Australia Makes Biggest Carbon Polluters Curb Emissions" [9]

"The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
Australia & Oceania [14]
Source: AP [15], 03/31/2023
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"Horses Came To American West By Early 1600s, Study Finds" [16]

"A new analysis of horse bones gathered from museums across the Great Plains and northern Rockies has revealed that horses were present in the grasslands by the early 1600s, earlier than many written histories suggest."

Biodiversity [17]
People & Population [18]
Wildlife [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [21], 03/31/2023
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"Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Water Rule" [22]

"The Senate on Wednesday afternoon approved a resolution against the Biden administration’s signature water policy, in a move all but guaranteed to spark the president’s second veto ever."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [28], 03/30/2023
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"House GOP To Pass Energy Package With Eye On Gas Prices, 2024" [29]

"Democrats argue the legislation, which is “dead on arrival” in the Senate, doesn’t address critical climate issues".

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [30], 03/30/2023
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"Biden Administration Sells Oil And Gas Leases In The Gulf Of Mexico" [31]

"Fossil fuel energy companies looking to extract oil and natural gas from U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico got a boost on Wednesday, as they secured access to 1.6 million acres of waters offered at auction."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [32], 03/30/2023
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"EPA Oversight Hampered by Funding Gap, Watchdog Tells Lawmakers" [33]

"The EPA’s inspector general raised concerns to House lawmakers Wednesday that his office can’t adequately track the tens of billions of dollars flowing into the agency from the infrastructure and climate laws under its current funding."

Economy & Business [34]
Environmental Health [23]
Government [35]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [37], 03/30/2023
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UN Wants the World Court to Address Nations’ Climate Obligations [38]

"The rulings, while legally non-binding, could still carry significant moral and legal weight. A group of 18 climate-vulnerable nations are seeking an opinion from the “World Court,” with support from 117 other countries."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
International [39]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 03/30/2023
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"EPA Leaves Americans In The Dark On Toxic Air Pollution" [41]

"Across the United States, residents of neighborhoods abutting refineries, chemical plants and other major industrial sources can generally be sure of two facts: Those facilities emits tons of dangerous pollutants and EPA rarely requires monitoring for their presence in local air."

Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [43]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [44], 03/30/2023
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Rising Antarctic Ice Melt Will Badly Slow Global Ocean Flows: Study [45]

"Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is dramatically slowing down the flow of water through the world's oceans, and could have a disastrous impact on global climate, the marine food chain and even the stability of ice shelves, new research has found."

Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Science [47]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
International [39]
Antarctica & Arctic [48]
Source: Reuters [49], 03/30/2023
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"Elderly Swiss Women Bring European Court's First Climate Case" [50]

"Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard on Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government's "woefully inadequate" efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [51]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [18]
Public [13]
International [39]
Europe [52]
Source: Reuters [53], 03/30/2023
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Homes Evacuated After Train Carrying Ethanol Derails, Burns In Minnesota [54]

"A train hauling ethanol derailed Thursday morning in Raymond, Minnesota, igniting several rail cars and forcing nearby residents to evacuate, officials said."

Agriculture [55]
Chemicals [42]
Disasters [56]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Transportation [57]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Source: CNN [59], 03/30/2023
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"Cockroach Sex Took a Strange Turn. Now More Mutations Have Emerged." [60]

"Cockroaches are changing up their sex lives, and it’s all our fault. Faced with sweet poisoned bait, roaches first ended up with a mutation that made them hate sweets, hindering their mating strategies. Now, more roach mutations are emerging, showing you can’t keep a good pest down."

Biodiversity [17]
Chemicals [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [61], 03/30/2023
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New Flu Spilling Over From Cows To People In U.S. Should We Worry? [62]

"In 2011, a farmer in Oklahoma had a bunch of sick pigs. The animals had what looked like the flu."

Agriculture [55]
Biodiversity [17]
Environmental Health [23]
People & Population [18]
Science [47]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [63], 03/29/2023
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"He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’" [64]

"Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats."

Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [36]
Planning & Growth [65]
Science [47]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [39]
Source: NYTimes [66], 03/29/2023
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"Congressional Democrats Call on EPA To Tighten Proposed Soot Standards" [67]

"More than 80 congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), urged the Biden administration to strengthen proposed rules on soot pollution in a letter Tuesday."

Air [68]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [69], 03/29/2023
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