EJToday: Top Headlines

"Ice Skating at a Rink Is Fun. Gliding Through a Forest? Glorious." [9]

"Ottawa’s winter-lovers can now pick among a half-dozen skating trails that wind for miles through the wilderness in and around the city. But climate change threatens the good times."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
Canada [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 03/22/2022
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"Biden Supreme Court Nominee Faces Big Climate Questions" [16]

"The Senate will begin confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday, just weeks after the Supreme Court took up the biggest climate change case in a decade."

Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 03/21/2022
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70 Degrees Warmer Than Normal In Antarctica: Scientists Are Flabbergasted [20]

"The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists."

Climate Change [10]
Science [21]
Public [13]
Antarctica & Arctic [22]
Source: Washington Post [23], 03/21/2022
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"Rain Finally In Forecast For Texas Areas Scorched By Fires" [24]

"Wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas on Monday, and a storm system moving through could bring much-needed rain but also strong winds, forecasters said."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Forests [26]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [27]
Source: AP [28], 03/21/2022
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"EPA Union Urges Agency To Scrap Trump-Era Plan To Relocate Houston Lab" [29]

"Federal workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are fighting to keep a key laboratory in Houston, warning that following through on a Trump-era plan to relocate the facility to rural Oklahoma would force out dedicated staff and harm heavily polluted industrial communities along the Gulf Coast."

Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Government [32]
Science [21]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [27]
Source: HuffPost [33], 03/21/2022
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"UN Chief: Don’t Let Russia Crisis Fuel Climate Destruction" [34]

"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy now being pursued by major economies to end fossil fuel imports from Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine could kill hopes of keeping global warming below dangerous levels."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Military [36]
Public [13]
International [37]
Source: AP [38], 03/21/2022
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"Germany Opens Door to Qatar Natural Gas in Pivot From Russia" [39]

"Qatar said it agreed to work on supplying Germany with liquefied natural gas as Europe’s biggest economy seeks to reduce its dependence on Russian energy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Public [13]
International [37]
Source: Bloomberg [40], 03/21/2022
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"There’s a Messaging Battle Right Now Over America’s Energy Future" [41]

"Climate scientists and fossil fuel executives use the same terms when they talk about an energy transition. But they mean starkly different things."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [42]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [44], 03/21/2022
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"EPA Helms White House Indoor Air Plan To Help Fight Covid-19" [45]

"EPA is leading the Biden administration’s latest initiative to stop the spread of Covid-19. The agency wrote new ventilation and air quality guidelines for schools, colleges and other building owners and operators released by the White House yesterday."

Air [46]
Environmental Health [30]
Pollution [47]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [48], 03/21/2022
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Report Looks At Water Quality 50 Years After The Clean Water Act Passed [49]

"Half a century after the Clean Water Act became law, the United States is still far from the goal of having all of its waters clean enough that people can fish and swim in them."

Agriculture [50]
Environmental Health [30]
Fish & Fisheries [51]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [47]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NM Political Report [53], 03/21/2022
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"Don Young Leaves Outsize Natural Resources Legacy" [54]

"Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young played an outsize role in shaping many natural resources policies during his nearly half a century as Alaska’s lone House representative, leaving a mark on issues like oil and natural gas, fisheries and endangered species."

Energy & Fuel [35]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [55], 03/21/2022
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"Largest Federal Utility Chooses Gas, Undermining Biden’s Climate Goals" [56]

"The nation’s largest federally owned utility plans to invest more than $3.5 billion in new gas-burning electric plants, despite President Biden’s commitment to swiftly move away from fossil fuels and eliminate greenhouse gases from the power sector in a little more than a decade."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Source: NYTimes [58], 03/18/2022
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"Drought in US Is Expected to Persist, and Spread, Through the Spring" [59]

"Drought conditions are likely to continue across more than half of the continental United States through at least June, straining water supplies and increasing the risk of wildfires, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday."

Agriculture [50]
Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [60], 03/18/2022
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"How the Largest Global Meat and Dairy Companies Evade Climate Scrutiny" [61]

"Professor Jennifer Jacquet examined the top 35 meat and dairy companies—which together, account for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions—and found that half aren’t even measuring their impact."

Agriculture [50]
Climate Change [10]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [62], 03/18/2022
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"EU Countries Back Plan For World-First Carbon Border Tariff" [63]

"European Union countries on Tuesday backed the bloc's plan to impose a world-first carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods, although the finer details will need to be worked out in upcoming negotiations."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [64]
Public [13]
Europe [65]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [66], 03/18/2022
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