EJToday: Top Headlines

"How Biden Can Meet His 100% Clean Electricity Goal" [9]

"It’s one of President Biden’s most important and ambitious climate goals: eliminating carbon pollution from America’s power sector by 2035.... However, a detailed new analysis finds that the Biden administration can still keep this central climate goal within reach if the Environmental Protection Agency enacts strong carbon pollution standards for new and existing power plants."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [14], 01/24/2023
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"Here’s What We Know About Kerry’s Offset Gambit" [15]

"New outlines of a hotly debated carbon credit initiative involving the U.S. government and two major philanthropies are raising questions about its ability to generate money while lowering emissions. Those come as the program’s organizers seem to disagree about whether it is, in fact, a carbon offsets program."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [16]
Public [12]
International [17]
Source: E&E News [18], 01/24/2023
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What If The Largest Owner Of Oil And Gas Wells In The US Goes Bankrupt? [19]

"Diversified Energy’s liabilities exceed its assets, according to a new report, sparking concerns about whether taxpayers will wind up paying to plug its 70,000 wells."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Daily Climate [22], 01/24/2023
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Some Landfills Will Begin Treating PFAS On-Site As Regulations Tighten [23]

"After years of sending leachate from the Coventry landfill downstream to a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Vermont, Casella Waste Systems is building an on-site facility to treat its runoff. Amid rising public concern over PFAS and new or forthcoming regulations, an increasing number of landfill operators across the country are considering similar moves."

Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Waste [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Waste Dive [28], 01/24/2023
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"How The White House Found EJ Areas Without Using Race" [29]

"The White House was widely criticized a year ago for not using racial demographics to identify disadvantaged communities that would be targeted for extra climate aid. ... But the colorblind approach has succeeded at prioritizing minority neighborhoods, an E&E News analysis shows."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [30]
Infrastructure [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [32], 01/24/2023
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"Growing Dust from Desert Wind Storms Has Curbed Warming, Study Finds" [33]

"The amount of dust generated by desert windstorms has grown markedly since the mid-19th century, helping to offset the global rise in temperature, new research shows."

Air [34]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [21]
Public [12]
International [17]
Source: YaleE360 [35], 01/24/2023
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"Fear The Deer: Crash Data Illuminates America’s Deadliest Animal" [36]

"Behold the deer, the deadliest beast in North America. Deer are responsible for the deaths of about 440 of the estimated 458 Americans killed in physical confrontations with wildlife in an average year, according to Utah State University biologist Mike Conover, employing some educated guesswork in the latest edition of “Human-Wildlife Interactions.”"

Biodiversity [37]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [25]
Transportation [39]
Wildlife [40]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [41], 01/24/2023
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"In Soaked California, Few Homeowners Have Flood Insurance" [42]

"On Sunday morning, Kyle Starks woke up to floodwaters that reached the door of his Jeep after yet another heavy rain storm drenched California. Emergency crews showed up with boats to float Starks and other residents of his rural mobile home park in Acampo to safety."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [43]
Source: AP [44], 01/23/2023
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"Georgia Regulators Release Plans For Mine Near Okefenokee" [45]

"Georgia regulators released detailed plans Thursday for a titanium mine near the fabled Okefenokee swamp, a project that’s drawn the ire of environmental groups and the head of the Interior Department."

Environmental Politics [46]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [47]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: E&E News [49], 01/23/2023
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"1st Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Certified For Use In US" [50]

"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear reactor."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [51]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [52], 01/23/2023
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"EPA Strategy For Alabama Landfill Fire: Smother It In Dirt" [53]

"There’s now more than just smoke hanging around the site of an underground landfill fire near Birmingham. In the two days since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed up to take control of the scene, the area has been abuzz with EPA trucks, bulldozers and excavators moving in to begin putting out the fire."

Air [34]
Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [30]
Pollution [21]
Waste [26]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: Birmingham News [54], 01/23/2023
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"EPA to Regulate PFAS Effluent From Landfills, Launch Studies" [55]

"The EPA will begin a rulemaking aiming to reduce PFAS in landfill leachate discharges and will expand or begin studies on PFAS pollution from textile manufacturers and sewage treatment plants, the agency said."

Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [56], 01/23/2023
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"Salt Marsh Microbes Threaten to Reshape the Atmosphere" [57]

"Turf wars between microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air."

Air [34]
Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [47]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Hakai [58], 01/23/2023
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"Native American Tribe In Va. Reclaims Big Parcel Of Its Homeland" [59]

"For centuries, a Native American tribe considered a large swath of land with cliffs jutting out along the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck as their ancestral heart and homelands."

Environmental Justice [30]
Natural Resources [47]
Pollution [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [60]
Source: Washington Post [61], 01/23/2023
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"Rough Road For Farm Bill As Divided Congress Takes Hold" [62]

"A chaotic start to the new Republican-led House may spell trouble for the 2023 farm bill."

Agriculture [63]
Biodiversity [37]
Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [64]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [46]
Food [65]
Government [66]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [47]
Pollution [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [67], 01/23/2023
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