EJToday: Top Headlines

"The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Island" [9]

"From a distance, the canids of Galveston Island, Texas, look almost like coyotes, prowling around the beach at night, eyes gleaming in the dark. But look closer and oddities appear."

Biodiversity [10]
Science [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 01/05/2022
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"Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan" [16]

"The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc’s plans for a climate-friendly future."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [20]
Public [13]
Europe [21]
Source: AP [22], 01/04/2022
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"Ormat Nevada Geothermal Project Approval Before a Federal Judge" [23]

"The Bureau of Land Management will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to allow Ormat Nevada’s geothermal project to proceed over objections from an American Indian tribe and an environmental group."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [26], 01/04/2022
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"Hawaii Upholds Order Requiring Navy To Drain Fuel Tanks" [27]

"Hawaii’s Department of Health on Monday upheld the governor’s order requiring the Navy to drain massive World War II-era fuel tanks after oil leaking from the aging facility contaminated Pearl Harbor’s tap water."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Military [29]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [32]
Source: AP [33], 01/04/2022
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"Famed Fossil Hunter And Conservationist Richard Leakey Dies At 77" [34]

"Richard Leakey, the world-renowned paleoanthropologist-turned-conservationist, has died at 77."

People & Population [35]
Science [11]
Public [13]
Africa [36]
Source: NPR [37], 01/04/2022
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"Jackpile Mine Toxic Legacy Continues At Laguna Pueblo" [38]

"In the village of Paguate as June Lorenzo’s grandmother knew it growing up, orchards and fields of wheat and corn carpeted nearby hillsides. Streams traversed a verdant valley where people hunted and grazed sheep near the small farming community in Laguna Pueblo. This was before a massive mine cratered the nearby land and altered the skyline. Lorenzo has looked for old photos of that landscape, but they’re hard to find. That place exists now only in stories from elders."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [39]
Natural Resources [40]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [20]
Pollution [30]
Waste [41]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: Indian Country Today [42], 01/04/2022
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"Changing Climate Parches Afghanistan, Exacerbating Poverty" [43]

"Fed by rain and snowmelt from mountains, this valley nestled among northwestern Afghanistan’s jagged peaks was once fertile. But the climate has changed in the last few decades, locals say, leaving the earth barren and its people struggling to survive."

Agriculture [44]
Climate Change [17]
Public [13]
Asia [45]
Source: AP [46], 01/04/2022
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"EPA To Require More Facilities To Report Releases Of Carcinogenic Gas" [47]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday [Dec. 27] that it will require more facilities to report the release of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide (EtO), after previously not requiring them to do so."

Air [48]
Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: The Hill [50], 01/04/2022
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Jump in Deforestation Of World's Most Biodiverse Savanna Alarms Scientists [51]

"Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil's Cerrado, prompting scientists on Monday to raise alarm over the state of the world's most species-rich savanna, a major carbon sink that helps to stave off climate change."

Agriculture [44]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [17]
Forests [52]
Public [13]
South America [53]
Source: Reuters [54], 01/04/2022
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"Advocates Call EPA 'Forever Chemical' Testing Announcement Insufficient" [55]

"The Biden administration will require new testing on some “forever chemicals,” but advocates are disappointed in what they characterized as insufficient requirements."

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: The Hill [56], 01/04/2022
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"Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On" [57]

"Rarely does a country get a chance to lay out its ideals as a nation and write a new constitution for itself. Almost never does the climate and ecological crisis play a central role. That is, until now, in Chile, where a national reinvention is underway. After months of protests over social and environmental grievances, 155 Chileans have been elected to write a new constitution amid what they have declared a “climate and ecological emergency.”"

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Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [58]
South America [53]
Source: NYTimes [59], 01/04/2022
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"Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires" [60]

"Days after what might be the most damaging wildfire in state history, residents are just beginning to make sense of the long road back and the extent of the damage."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [61]
Public [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [62]
Source: NYTimes [63], 01/03/2022
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Ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, Who Urged Preserving Amazon Rainforest, Dies [64]

"Thomas E. Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest and educating Washington policymakers and the public about the dangers of climate change, died Dec. 25 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 80."

Biodiversity [10]
People & Population [35]
Science [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [65], 01/03/2022
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"E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92" [66]

"Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and author who conducted pioneering work on biodiversity, insects and human nature — and won two Pulitzer Prizes along the way — died on Sunday in Burlington, Mass. He was 92."

Biodiversity [10]
People & Population [35]
Science [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: NYTimes [67], 01/03/2022
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"Solar Power Projects See The Light on Former Appalachian Coal Land" [68]

"Six new solar plants on former Virginia coal mines are among the first such projects in the United States - and could help fossil-fuel communities shift to a greener economy".

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [69], 01/03/2022
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