EJToday: Top Headlines

Burning Tires: PA Residents ‘Shocked’ By Firm’s Bitcoin-Mining Plan [9]

"A crypto-mining company in Pennsylvania is seeking to burn tires to produce bitcoin, prompting an outcry from residents and environmental groups."

Air [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: Guardian [18], 09/01/2023
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"In Florida, Python Hunters Stalk Their Targets In The Dark Of Night" [19]

"Donna Kalil was creeping toward the end of the levee, heading out of the swampy wilderness and back to civilization, when she spotted it. There along the canal, nearly invisible amid the brush, was the elusive tan and brown pattern she’d been after all night. “Right there is one — python!” cried Kalil, 61, her voice rising above the honking frogs and chirping crickets of the Glades."

Biodiversity [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Washington Post [23], 09/01/2023
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"Hurricane Idalia: How Climate Change Is Fueling Hurricanes" [24]

"Hurricane Idalia's arrival on Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday signaled activity in the Atlantic's hurricane alley might not be as quiet this year as meteorologists had once predicted."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Science [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Reuters [29], 08/31/2023
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"Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters" [30]

"Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Science [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NYTimes [33], 08/31/2023
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Reporter Sues Marion Police Chief, Alleging Retaliation In Newsroom Raid [34]

''Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job."

Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [37]
Source: States Newsroom [38], 08/31/2023
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"Invasive Species Have Created A Cycle Of Wildfire In Hawaiʻi" [39]

"Planting native flora could help prevent the island's next wildfire."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Natural Resources [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Alaska and Hawaii [42]
Source: Grist [43], 08/31/2023
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"Exxon Says Global Climate Goals Are Destined To Fail" [44]

"The company’s researchers predict that an expanding population and worldwide economy will drive up energy demand for fossil fuels."

"Exxon Mobil projected that greenhouse-gas emissions and the efforts to keep the planet’s temperature from rising beyond an increase of 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 is destined to fail in a report released by the oil giant on Monday.
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
International [45]
Source: Grist [46], 08/31/2023
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Scrapping Housebuilder Pollution Rules Is A Regression: UK Watchdog [47]

"Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs".

Environmental Politics [31]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [41]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
Europe [49]
Source: Guardian [50], 08/31/2023
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"In New Scramble for Africa, an Arab Sheikh Is Taking the Lead" [51]

"A company established by a Dubai sheikh is finalizing agreements with African nations to manage vast tracts of their forests and sell the carbon credits. Critics are concerned the deals will not benefit Africans and will just help foreign governments perpetuate high emissions."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [31]
Forests [52]
Natural Resources [41]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
International [45]
Africa [53]
Middle East [54]
Source: YaleE360 [55], 08/31/2023
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"Photo Essay: What It’s Like To Flee A Wildfire In B.C." [56]

"As someone who has long frequented burning landscapes to put out fires, I hadn’t ever feared for my safety before. That changed the day two explosive blazes converged in the province’s Shuswap region".

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Forests [52]
Public [16]
Canada [57]
Source: The Narwhal [58], 08/31/2023
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After 100+ Years, Gray Wolves Reappear In Giant Sequoia National Monument [59]

"GIANT SEQUOIA NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — On the morning of July 6, Michelle Harris saw a huge canid with yellow eyes dash across a fire road lined with charred snags and giant sequoias blackened by recent wildfires."

Biodiversity [20]
Forests [52]
Natural Resources [41]
Wildlife [60]
Public [16]
California [61]
Source: LA Times [62], 08/31/2023
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"Protesters Block Road Into Burning Man Festival; Rangers Ram Blockade" [63]

"Climate activists caused a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Videos posted online show activists using a trailer to block the road that leads into Black Rock City. One video posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, shows a white pickup truck appearing to be from the Pyramid Lake Ranger Station crashing through the barricade set up by protesters.
Activism [64]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Natural Resources [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [65]
Source: The Hill [66], 08/31/2023
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Cat 4 Idalia Projected To Hit Florida With ‘Catastrophic’ Storm Surge [67]

"Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [14]
Transportation [68]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: AP [69], 08/30/2023
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"EPA Revises Waters Rule to Align With High Court Wetlands Ruling" [70]

"A new rule governing federally protected waters and wetlands was issued Tuesday by the EPA to align agency regulations with a US Supreme Court ruling that will allow unpermitted development in wetlands across the country."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [31]
Fish & Fisheries [71]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [41]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [27]
Wildlife [60]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [72], 08/30/2023
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"America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow" [73]

"Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed."

Agriculture [40]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [12]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [41]
Planning & Growth [74]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NYTimes [75], 08/30/2023
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