EJToday: Top Headlines

Colleges With Fossil Fuel Funding Can Become 'Vehicle Of Climate Obstruction' [9]

"For decades, oil and gas companies have donated tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, sat on governing boards, sponsored scholarships and built pro-fossil fuel programming and curriculum — resulting in real or apparent conflicts of interest for universities and their researchers."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Policy [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Technology [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [21]
Source: Floodlight [22], 09/06/2024
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"Can The US Census Keep Up With Climate-Driven Displacement?" [23]

"Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Infrastructure [25]
People & Population [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: Grist [29], 09/06/2024
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"Coral Restoration's Wake Up Call" [30]

"Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality."

Biodiversity [31]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [21]
Source: HuffPost [34], 09/06/2024
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"With Hotter, Drier Weather, California’s Joshua Trees Are in Trouble" [35]

"In the Mojave Desert, rising temperatures, less rainfall, and more intense wildfires are killing off Joshua trees. California officials are working on a plan to protect the distinctive yucca tree and its desert ecosystem by establishing refuges and controlling development."

Biodiversity [31]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Forests [36]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [37]
Source: YaleE360 [38], 09/06/2024
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"Opinion: How The Quiet War Against Press Freedom Could Come To America" [39]

"Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook."

Environmental Politics [12]
Government [40]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [21]
Source: Washington Post [42], 09/06/2024
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"EPA Restores Industrial Air Pollution Rule Axed By Trump" [43]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday strengthened a rule limiting toxic air pollution from factories, refineries and other industrial facilities, reversing one of former president Donald Trump’s major environmental rollbacks."

Air [44]
Chemicals [45]
Environmental Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [47], 09/05/2024
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"The World Is Pumping Out 57 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution A Year" [48]

"The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South."

Chemicals [45]
Consumer [49]
Environmental Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Pollution [16]
Waste [50]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
International [21]
Source: AP [51], 09/05/2024
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"Biden Administration Approves Natural Gas Exports After Pause Is Halted" [52]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday granted a gas export terminal the authority to ship fuel abroad after a court blocked its efforts to delay such permissions."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [21]
Mexico [53]
Source: The Hill [54], 09/05/2024
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"As Tornado Alley Shifts East, Bracing for Impact in Unexpected Places" [55]

"As the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled north in September 2021, Chris Erdner heard a startling warning on TV: Residents in her area needed to seek shelter immediately. Erdner’s quiet suburban neighborhood in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was directly in the path of a tornado."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
People & Population [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 09/05/2024
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S. Carolina Models ‘Managed Retreat’ From Coasts Threatened by Climate Change [57]

"The state has identified hundreds of thousands of homes that will need to be abandoned. But at one flagship buyout, only one in 10 eligible homeowners signed up."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Infrastructure [25]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [58]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 09/05/2024
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West Braces For Extreme Heat; Phoenix Passes 100 Days Over 100 Degrees [60]

"The West Coast of the United States is bracing for extreme heat with temperatures in desert towns expected to soar as high as 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and Phoenix likely to extend its streak of 100 days over 100 degrees, forecasters said on Tuesday.

The southwestern U.S. can expect multiple days of supercharged heat beginning on Tuesday, with the homeless, elderly, children, and people with health issues at the highest risk for heat illness, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [46]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [61], 09/05/2024
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Photographer Captures Life In America’s Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests [62]

"“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and relationships occur in places and at scales rarely observed, our connection with forest biodiversity and the role it plays in nurturing our well-being often goes completely unnoticed.”

Forests [36]
Journalism & Media [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northwest (OR WA) [63]
Source: NPR [64], 09/05/2024
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"Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August" [65]

"No other region in the state had a comparable level of outbreaks. The Hochul administration is spending millions to help farmers limit nutrient runoff."

Agriculture [66]
Biodiversity [31]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [67]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 09/05/2024
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"More EPA Buildings Face Bacteria Outbreak" [69]

"Bacteria linked to severe lung infections recently found in EPA’s Chicago office has also cropped up in three more EPA buildings, internal emails show."

Environmental Health [46]
Government [40]
Infrastructure [25]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [70], 09/05/2024
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Haaland Announces Restoration Of Once-Endangered Apache Trout In Arizona [71]

"U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the Apache trout — Arizona’s state fish — has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife following more than five decades of recovery efforts."

Biodiversity [31]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [72]
Source: AP [73], 09/05/2024
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