EJToday: Top Headlines

"Lithium Companies Fight Over Water in the Arid Great Basin" [9]

"In the Nevada valley that is one of the most significant domestic sources of a key element for the energy transition, one company controls the groundwater needed to mine it, another is fighting for a share of it and others are lining up at the tap."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [18], 04/10/2024
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"EPA Mulls Tougher Limits On New Gas Plants As 2024 Election Nears" [19]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is considering significantly strengthening proposed limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants — a crucial part of President Biden’s climate agenda — according to three people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made."

Air [20]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [25], 04/10/2024
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US Wildfires Get Bigger And More Complex, Changing Firefighting Workforce [26]

"With fires growing in size and duration, federal officials in charge of juggling resources and dispatching crews are pivoting to a new business model they describe as the biggest shift in wildfire management in decades."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [27]
Forests [28]
Government [29]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [31], 04/10/2024
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‘Alarming’ Bacteria Levels Found In Seine River, Where Olympians Will Swim [32]

"A nonprofit focused on waterway conservation has voiced concern about contamination in Paris’s Seine River ahead of open-water swimming events to be held there at the Olympic and Paralympic Games starting in July."

Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Europe [33]
Source: Washington Post [34], 04/10/2024
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"Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River" [35]

"Albania’s Vjosë River is known as Europe’s last wild river, and its pristine delta is a haven for migratory birds. As plans for luxury developments there — spearheaded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm."

Biodiversity [36]
Economy & Business [37]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Natural Resources [13]
Planning & Growth [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
Europe [33]
Source: YaleE360 [41], 04/10/2024
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"The First All-Electric Tugboat In The US Is About To Launch" [42]

"With their roaring diesel engines, tugboats push, pull and guide much larger vessels into port and out to sea. They are small but mighty — and incredibly dirty, spewing huge amounts of toxic exhaust and planet-warming emissions every year. Now, however, the humble harbor craft is going electric."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Transportation [43]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [44]
Source: Canary Media [45], 04/10/2024
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Scientists Confirm Record Highs For 3 Most Important Heat-Trapping Gases [46]

"The levels of the three most important heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs again last year, US scientists have confirmed, underlining the escalating challenge posed by the climate crisis."

Air [20]
Climate Change [11]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
International [47]
Source: Guardian [48], 04/09/2024
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"Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands" [49]

"When it was time to outline their vision for managing America’s federal lands under a future Republican presidency, pro-Donald Trump conservatives turned to a man who has spent his career advocating for those very lands to be pawned off to states and private interests."

Activism [50]
Biodiversity [36]
Economy & Business [37]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Forests [28]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: HuffPost [51], 04/09/2024
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"Climate-Warming Gases Being Smuggled Into Europe, Investigation Says" [52]

"Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said on Monday."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
International [47]
Europe [33]
Source: Reuters [53], 04/09/2024
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Biden Agencies Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure [54]

"It was a key pledge in President Joe Biden’s effort to show renewed international leadership on climate change: The U.S. government, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world, would require its contractors and suppliers to disclose their carbon emissions and climate risks."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [37]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 04/09/2024
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"Researchers Say Pathways Alliance Misleading Public With Greenwashing" [56]

"Canada’s largest oilsands companies are “misleading” the public about their industry’s environmental impact, according to new peer-reviewed research."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [57]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [24]
Public [15]
Canada [58]
Source: The Narwhal [59], 04/09/2024
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"PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Pervasive in Water Worldwide, Study Finds" [60]

"A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31 percent of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [47]
Source: NYTimes [61], 04/09/2024
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"Groups Go To Court To Get Wolves Relisted In Montana, Idaho And Wyoming" [62]

"A prediction, several years in the making, came true on Monday when an alliance of nearly a dozen conservation groups filed suit against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, seeking to restore protections for gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming arguing that the states’ aggressive hunting policies imperils the populations."

Biodiversity [36]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [17]
Source: States Newsroom [63], 04/09/2024
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"Colombia Capital Bogota To Ration Water As Reservoirs Dry" [64]

"Colombia's capital Bogota will start rationing water this week to alleviate droughts wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country's dry season and caused reservoir levels to fall, Mayor Carlos Galan said on Monday."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [65]
Disasters [27]
Infrastructure [66]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
South America [67]
Source: Reuters [68], 04/09/2024
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US Braces For Cicadas By The Trillion As Two Periodic Broods Coincide [69]

"They look a little like cockroaches and have bulging orange eyes, and trillions of them are about to erupt from the earth in much of the midwestern and eastern United States. The emergence of two groups of cicadas will assemble a chorus of the insects not seen in several hundred years, experts say."

Biodiversity [36]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [70], 04/09/2024
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