EJToday: Top Headlines

"Senate Rejects Manchin’s Energy Permitting Amendment To Defense Bill" [9]

"The Senate has bucked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest effort to get his energy deal with Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) attached to must-pass legislation."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [18], 12/16/2022
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"$698M Deal To End Monsanto PCB Pollution Lawsuit In Oregon" [19]

"Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will pay Oregon $698 million to end a lawsuit over PCB pollution associated with products made by Monsanto, the agriculture giant it now owns, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday."

Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [22]
Source: AP [23], 12/16/2022
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"FERC Climate Reviews In Limbo As Glick Departs" [24]

"The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had big plans at the start of the Biden administration for assessing planet-warming emissions from new gas pipelines. But with FERC Chair Richard Glick’s time at the agency likely coming to an end, the commission’s path forward on climate assessments is as murky as ever."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [28], 12/16/2022
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"How to Hand Out Billions in Climate Subsidies? Very Carefully." [29]

"John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said the administration was working to ensure that a record $370 billion in new federal subsidies for electric vehicles, wind farms, batteries and other clean energy technologies is spent properly and avoids waste and abuse."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [32], 12/16/2022
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"California Just Slashed Rooftop Solar Incentives. What Happens Next?" [33]

"California sharply reduced incentive payments for rooftop solar power Thursday, taking a sledgehammer to a program that helped 1.5 million homes and businesses put solar panels on their roofs and made the state a leader in fighting the climate crisis."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
California [34]
Source: LA Times [35], 12/16/2022
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China’s Return To Wildlife Farming Risks Global Health And Biodiversity [36]

"China appears to be weakening its post-Covid restrictions on the farming of wildlife such as porcupines, civets and bamboo rats, which raises a new risk to public health and biodiversity, warn NGOs and experts."

Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [38]
Food [39]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [41]
Wildlife [42]
Public [16]
Asia [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 12/16/2022
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"‘Space Hurricanes’ Swirling Over The Earth Surprise Scientists" [45]

"Cyclone-like auroras near the North Pole, dubbed space hurricanes, can transfer large amounts of energy from the sun to Earth’s upper atmosphere".

Air [46]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [38]
Natural Resources [40]
Science [47]
Public [16]
International [48]
Antarctica & Arctic [49]
Source: Washington Post [50], 12/16/2022
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"Developing Nations Halt COP15 Talks After Biodiversity Fund Demand" [51]

"Delegates from dozens of developing nations walked out of crunch financing talks overnight at the U.N. COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal, citing a lack of compromise from wealthy countries as negotiations intensify to agree a new global nature pact."

Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [16]
International [48]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [52], 12/15/2022
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"Drought Emergency Declared for All Southern California" [53]

"As California faces the prospect of a fourth consecutive dry year, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a regional drought emergency and called on water agencies to immediately reduce their use of all imported supplies."

Agriculture [54]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Disasters [55]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
California [34]
Source: LA Times [56], 12/15/2022
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"Fla. Lawmakers Force Homeowners To Buy Flood Insurance" [57]

"Hundreds of thousands of Florida property owners face requirements to buy flood insurance under a precedent-setting bill approved Wednesday by the state Legislature. It’s the first mandate of its kind in the country."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Disasters [55]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [58]
Source: E&E News [59], 12/15/2022
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"FTC Reviews ‘Green Guides’ to Root Out False Environment Claims" [60]

"The Federal Trade Commission kicked off a review of its “Green Guides” aimed at helping companies avoid misleading and deceptive environmental claims about their products and services.

The FTC’ voted 4-0 on Wednesday to start a regulatory review of its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims. The public will be able to comment on the 2012 version of the guides and recommend potential updates.
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [55]
Economy & Business [30]
Journalism & Media [61]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [62], 12/15/2022
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"Nevada Flower Listed As Endangered At Lithium Mine Site" [63]

"A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it’s known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet growing demand for electric car batteries, U.S. wildlife officials announced Wednesday."

Biodiversity [37]
Chemicals [20]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [64], 12/15/2022
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"G7 Agrees $15.5B Energy Deal With Vietnam To Cut Emissions" [65]

"A group of nine rich industrialized nations approved a deal to provide Vietnam with $15.5 billion to help the Southeast Asian nation move faster from coal power to renewable energy, cutting its climate-damaging pollution."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [16]
International [48]
Source: AP [66], 12/15/2022
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"Whitebark Pine That Feeds Grizzlies Is Threatened, US Says" [67]

"Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source for some grizzly bears have been killed by disease, climate change, wildfires and voracious beetles, government officials said as they announced federal protections Wednesday."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [68]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [40]
Wildlife [42]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [69], 12/15/2022
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"In Bolivia, Mercury Pollution Spreads Amid a Surge in Gold Mining" [70]

"A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to stem the widespread use of the highly toxic chemical."

Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: YaleE360 [71], 12/15/2022
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