EJToday: Top Headlines

"Turf Fields May Have ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Should Kids Be Playing On Them?" [9]

"The three 6-year-old girls stood on the sidelines as their coach swabbed their hands. Then they ran onto a lush green turf field and played soccer for 90 minutes straight — no stepping off the pitch. This wasn’t just a practice. It was part of a small experiment conducted in the suburban foothills of San Diego last summer."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 03/15/2024
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"Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible." [21]

"High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: New Republic [24], 03/15/2024
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"Americans Move To Climate-Risky Areas As Real Estate Booms" [25]

"How growing battles over real estate development and flood risk are playing out in one community on the U.S. East Coast".

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [27]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Planning & Growth [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [32], 03/15/2024
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Chemicals In Plastics Far More Numerous Than Previous Estimates: Report [33]

"At least 3,000 more chemicals are in plastics — from food packaging to toys to medical devices — than previously estimated by environmental agencies, a report published on Thursday found, raising questions over pollution and consumer safety."

Chemicals [10]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [34]
Source: Reuters [35], 03/15/2024
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"Failed Oil Well Plugs Are Silent Polluters That No One Watches" [36]

"Sarah Stogner plucked a piece of cement off a rusted steel pipe jutting from the ground on a West Texas ranch. The chunk, part of the plug for a long-dormant oil well, crumbled in her hand."

Air [37]
Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [40], 03/15/2024
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"The Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative Hopes to Give Wildlife Room to Roam" [41]

"It's a big, inspiring vision of wildlife connectivity. But could it work?"

Biodiversity [42]
Forests [43]
Infrastructure [13]
Natural Resources [44]
Transportation [45]
Wildlife [46]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [47]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Canada [49]
Source: Sierra [50], 03/15/2024
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"Nine More States Sue SEC Over Climate Disclosure Rule" [51]

"Nine states this week sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a rule that requires publicly traded companies to disclose some climate-related information to potential investors."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [27]
Economy & Business [52]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [53], 03/14/2024
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US Energy Industry Methane Emissions Are Triple What Government Thought [54]

"American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates."

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [34]
Source: AP [55], 03/14/2024
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"Miss. Senate Votes To Change Control Of Jackson’s Troubled Water System" [56]

"For the second year in a row, the Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would transfer control of the state capital city’s troubled water system to a regional board."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [57]
Environmental Politics [23]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: AP [58], 03/14/2024
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Judge Finds Flint In Civil Contempt For Failures In Lead Pipe Replacement [59]

"The city of Flint has been found in civil contempt by a federal judge for its handling of its lead pipe replacement program."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [57]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [60]
Source: Michigan Public [61], 03/14/2024
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County Confirms 645 Heat-Associated Deaths In Metro Phoenix Last Year [62]

"Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county on Wednesday reported they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year — more than 50% higher than 2022 and another consecutive annual record in arid metro Phoenix."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
Source: AP [63], 03/14/2024
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Mass. Town Spent $600K On Sand. A Winter Storm Washed It Away Days Later. [64]

"A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure."

Natural Resources [44]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [65]
Source: AP [66], 03/14/2024
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Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed [67]

"The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows."

Climate Change [26]
Forests [43]
Pollution [16]
Science [68]
Public [18]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 03/14/2024
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"Spring Is Getting Earlier. Find Out How It’s Changed In Your Town." [70]

"As global warming nudges temperatures higher, memories of the past offer an informal account of how the seasons have changed. A formal account comes from the USA National Phenology Network — phenology is the study of seasonal change — which reports the annual appearance of spring’s first leaves in the contiguous United States since 1981."

Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [42]
Climate Change [26]
Forests [43]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [71], 03/14/2024
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South American Lithium Mines Threaten Native Water, Culture And Wealth [72]

"In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Justice [57]
Natural Resources [44]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
International [34]
South America [73]
Source: AP [74], 03/14/2024
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