EJToday: Top Headlines

"Could 2024 Be A Breakout Year For The Transmission Grid?" [9]

"Study after study has found the country can’t build renewable energy at the pace needed to rapidly decarbonize the power grid without also building a massive amount of new power lines, fast. But over the past half-decade, grid growth has slowed, not accelerated, bogged down by conflicts over siting, permitting and paying for new transmission capacity."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Canary Media [16], 01/04/2024
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"Great Lakes Ice Cover Reaches Record Low For New Year's Day" [17]

"Ice cover on the Great Lakes reached a record low on New Year's Day, and open water made smooth sailing for the latest departure of an oceangoing vessel ever recorded in the Port of Duluth-Superior."

Climate Change [10]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio [21], 01/04/2024
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"Sierra Nevada Snowpack At Lowest Level In 10 Years" [22]

"California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source of nearly one-third of the state’s water supply — is at its lowest level in a decade, a major turnaround from last year when huge storms ended a three-year drought and buried ski resorts in massive amounts of snow."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [23]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
California [24]
Source: San Jose Mercury News [25], 01/04/2024
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The Golden Age Of Public Transit Was Electric — And Its Future Will Be Too [26]

"Ask nearly any Winnipegger and they’ll tell you: the worst time to wait for public transit is a dark and frigid January night."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Transportation [18]
Public [14]
Canada [27]
Source: The Narwhal [28], 01/04/2024
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Saving Panama Canal Will Take Years and Cost Billions, If Even Possible [29]

"The vestiges of an ancient forest tell the story of just how bad things are at the drought-stricken Panama Canal."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Infrastructure [12]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Central America & the Caribbean [31]
Source: Bloomberg [32], 01/04/2024
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"‘Green Roads’ Are Plowing Ahead, Buffering Drought and Floods" [33]

"As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash maintenance costs."

Agriculture [34]
Infrastructure [12]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
Africa [35]
Source: YaleE360 [36], 01/04/2024
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"Siberia’s Ice Is Melting, Revealing Its Past And Endangering Its Future" [37]

"Nikita Zimov walked through the sticky brown muck of Siberia, just above the Arctic Circle. The sun radiated over the Russian republic of Sakha, also known as Yakutia, on a nearly 70 degree day. It was August of 2022, but in many ways the young scientist had traveled back in time thousands of years."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [14]
Asia [39]
Source: Washington Post [40], 01/04/2024
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"Brace Yourself For A Blockbuster Year On Energy And Climate" [41]

"It’s officially an election year, which means politics — and the prospect of another White House showdown pitting President Joe Biden against former President Donald Trump — will influence just about everything in the energy and environmental arena between now and Election Day on Nov. 5."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [42]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [44], 01/03/2024
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"Biden Air Rules Face Tough 2024 in Courts After Ambitious Year" [45]

"The Biden administration pushed through a packed clean air to-do list in 2023, shoring up against a tougher legal landscape and multiple courtroom battles that threaten to delay cornerstone air and climate plans."

Air [46]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [48], 01/03/2024
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"Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water?" [49]

"With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working."

Agriculture [34]
Economy & Business [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [38]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [24]
Source: NYTimes [50], 01/03/2024
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"Polar Bear Dies From Bird Flu As H5N1 Spreads Across Globe" [51]

"A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [52]
Environmental Health [42]
Natural Resources [38]
Wildlife [53]
Public [14]
International [54]
Source: Guardian [55], 01/03/2024
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"Floatovoltaics Could Help The Southwest Generate Power And Conserve Water" [56]

"Just southeast of Phoenix, over 150 miles of canals sit uncovered in one of the hottest and driest regions of the country. The Gila River Indian community’s solar panel project, which would cover some of those canals with solar panels, could be the start of a new wave of such solar projects, known as floatovoltaics."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Technology [57]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [58]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [59], 01/03/2024
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Water Increasingly At The Center Of Conflicts From Ukraine To Middle East [60]

"In countries including India, Kenya and Yemen, disputes over water have triggered bloodshed."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [42]
Environmental Politics [43]
Infrastructure [12]
Military [61]
Natural Resources [38]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
International [54]
Source: LA Times [62], 01/03/2024
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‘Major’ Problem in Texas: Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It [63]

"Industrial developers describe facilities as “minor” polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen."

Air [46]
Chemicals [64]
Environmental Health [42]
Environmental Justice [65]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 01/03/2024
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US Buildings Kill A Billion Birds A Year. These Architects Want To Save Them [67]

"Highly transparent glass can lead to devastating collisions. But innovations in design are creating safer skylines – without sacrificing beauty".

Biodiversity [52]
Infrastructure [12]
Natural Resources [38]
Wildlife [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [68], 01/03/2024
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