EJToday: Top Headlines

Deadly Threat To General Sherman And California's Beloved Giant Sequoias [9]

"Last week, General Sherman, California's most famous giant sequoia, got a checkup."

Environmental Health [10]
Forests [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [13]
California [14]
Source: LAist [15], 06/03/2024
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"The Climate Refugee Crisis Is Here" [16]

"Catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Many say they won’t go back."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
International [21]
Source: Washington Post [22], 05/31/2024
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Dems Urge Justice Department To Prosecute Alleged Oil Industry Price-Fixing [23]

"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are calling on the Department of Justice to “use every tool” at its disposal to prevent and prosecute alleged collusion and price-fixing in the oil industry."

Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: AP [29], 05/31/2024
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Calif. Backs Big Utilities, Trims Incentives For Community Solar Projects [30]

"California’s utilities regulator today adopted new rules for community solar projects, despite warnings from clean energy advocates that the move will actually undercut efforts to expand solar power options for low-income customers."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [13]
California [14]
Source: CalMatters [32], 05/31/2024
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"The Next Pandemic May Come From Bats. Reuters Investigates Where." [33]

"Humanity is ramping up the risk of global health disasters by intruding deep into the world’s bat habitats, breeding grounds for deadly viruses. In this five-part series, Reuters pinpoints the places where the next outbreaks are likeliest."

Biodiversity [34]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [10]
Wildlife [35]
Public [13]
International [21]
Source: Reuters [36], 05/31/2024
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Groups Urge Johnson To Bring Broader Radiation Exposure Bill Next Week [37]

"A coalition of community activists called on House leadership to take up a broader reauthorization of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) scheduled a vote on a more limited extension next week."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [31]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: The Hill [39], 05/31/2024
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BLM Buys 3,700 Acres Next To Río Grande Del Norte National Monument In NM [40]

"The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced the acquisition Thursday of about 3,700 acres (1,497 hectares) of land adjacent to the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico near the Colorado border."

Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: AP [42], 05/31/2024
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"Bird Flu Detected In Michigan Dairy Worker" [43]

"Another Michigan dairy worker has been infected with a highly virulent bird flu, marking the third human case since the disease was detected in dairy cattle this spring but the first to report symptoms of respiratory illness."

Agriculture [44]
Biodiversity [34]
Environmental Health [10]
Wildlife [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [45], 05/31/2024
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Extreme Weather. Few Vaccines. Africa’s Cholera Crisis Is Worse Than Ever [46]

"Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [10]
Public [13]
Africa [47]
Source: AP [48], 05/31/2024
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Texas’ First Flood Plan Estimates 5 Million Live In Flood-Prone Areas [49]

"More than 5 million Texans, or one in six people in the state, live or work in an area susceptible to flooding, according to a draft of the state’s first-ever flood plan."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: Texas Tribune [50], 05/31/2024
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"The Enduring Influence Of “The Day After Tomorrow,” 20 Years Later" [51]

"It has been 20 years since we first saw the paleo-climatologist Jack Hall, played by Dennis Quaid, standing at a railing overlooking a command center at NOAA and asking his colleagues the question that baffled them: “What about the North Atlantic Current?”"

Climate Change [17]
Journalism & Media [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [53], 05/31/2024
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"EPA Union Deal to Shield Science From Politics as Election Looms" [54]

"The EPA’s biggest union said on Wednesday it had ratified a new contract with the agency, winning scientific integrity protections for the first time."

Environmental Politics [26]
Environmental Studies [55]
Journalism & Media [52]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [56]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [57], 05/30/2024
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"The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty" [58]

"With another hot summer looming, Mexico is behind on its water deliveries to the United States, leading to water cutbacks in South Texas. A little-known federal agency has hit a roadblock in its efforts to get Mexico to comply."

Agriculture [44]
Climate Change [17]
Consumer [59]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [60]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Mexico [61]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 05/30/2024
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"Indian Capital Swelters As Temperature Hits All-Time High Of 52.9 Celsius" [63]

"Delhi recorded an all-time high temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius (127.22 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday as extreme heat conditions gripped the north and western parts of India, causing students to faint in schools and drinking water taps to dry up."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [10]
People & Population [19]
Public [13]
Asia [64]
Source: Reuters [65], 05/30/2024
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"How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists" [66]

"Subpoenaed emails reveal the ways fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they often succeed."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Journalism & Media [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Drilled [67], 05/30/2024
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