EJToday: Top Headlines

"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay" [9]

"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: AP [17], 01/06/2023
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"EU Ban On Deforestation-Linked Goods Sets Benchmark, Say US Lawmakers" [18]

"A groundbreaking EU deal to ban the import of goods linked to deforestation has set a global benchmark and will hasten the passage of a similar law in the US, American lawmakers have said."

Agriculture [19]
Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [21]
Consumer [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Europe [25]
Source: Guardian [26], 01/06/2023
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"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe" [27]

"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [28], 01/06/2023
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"Report: US’s Largest Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Earns D-Plus" [29]

"An environmental group gave the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in an evaluation released on Thursday — the same grade earned in its last report two years ago."

Agriculture [19]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Source: AP [31], 01/06/2023
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"How Climate Change Is Shaping California’s Winter Storms" [32]

"So far, the downpours are largely in line with past storms, an official said. But their quick pace is testing the limits of the state’s infrastructure."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [33]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
California [34]
Source: NYTimes [35], 01/06/2023
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"Nine Right Whale Calves Spotted In Atlantic Ocean: Researchers" [36]

"Researchers along the Atlantic Ocean say there have been nine North Atlantic right whale calves spotted this season, a positive sign for the aquatic giant described as one of the “most endangered whales.”"

Biodiversity [20]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Canada [37]
Source: Global News [38], 01/06/2023
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"Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect Nature" [39]

"From Ethiopia’s highlands to Siberia to the Australian rainforest, there are thousands of sacred forests that have survived thanks to traditional religious and spiritual beliefs. Experts say these places, many now under threat, have ecological importance and must be saved."

Forests [40]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [41]
Public [15]
International [42]
Source: YaleE360 [43], 01/06/2023
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"Wild Weather Driven By Roiling Pacific, Nature And Warming" [44]

"In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it’s natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change."

Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [33]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
California [34]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
Source: AP [46], 01/05/2023
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"Are Home Insurers Abandoning Communities Vulnerable to Climate Change?" [47]

"Dozens of environmental and consumer groups are rallying behind the Biden administration’s plan to collect information from property insurance companies to determine if they are abandoning communities that are vulnerable to climate change."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [22]
Disasters [33]
Economy & Business [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [49], 01/05/2023
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"Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange" [50]

"Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming more acidic. This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been in operation for decades, and scientists want to know why."

Climate Change [21]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [51]
Source: High Country News [52], 01/05/2023
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"NPS Cut Its Special Agents By Nearly Half, Memo Shows" [53]

"The National Park Service has reduced the number of criminal investigators who handle difficult cases by 45 percent over the last 20 years, and they will spend less time on property crimes and drug cases as a result, according to an internal memo."

Government [54]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [55]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [56], 01/05/2023
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Lula’s First Pro-Environment Acts Protect Indigenous People And The Amazon [57]

"In the first day of his third mandate as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued measures to protect the Amazon and Indigenous people, acts highly celebrated by environmentalists and activists as a reversal of an anti-environment-and-Indigenous era from predecessor Jair Bolsonaro."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [58]
Forests [40]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
South America [59]
Source: Mongabay [60], 01/05/2023
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"Biden Taps Democrat On Interstate Energy Commission As Its Interim Chair" [61]

"President Biden will name Willie Phillips as interim head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the White House confirmed Tuesday."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [62]
Environmental Politics [58]
Infrastructure [63]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The Hill [64], 01/05/2023
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"Antiquities Act Litigation Threatens Nevada Monument Proposal" [65]

"Tribes and environmentalists are hailing President Joe Biden’s commitment to use the Antiquities Act to create a national monument in Nevada to protect tribal sacred sites, preserve wildlife and Joshua tree habitat, and block the approval of a wind farm."

Energy & Fuel [62]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [55]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [66], 01/05/2023
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"Emperor Penguins, Reindeer Among Threatened Species: WWF" [67]

"Emperor penguins and reindeer were among the species highlighted in a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report as severely threatened by the cascading impacts of climate change."

Biodiversity [20]
Wildlife [68]
Public [15]
International [42]
Antarctica & Arctic [69]
Source: DW [70], 01/05/2023
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