EJToday: Top Headlines

"Island Nations Hope for Court’s Help on Climate’s Effects" [9]

"A tribunal is expected to issue an advisory opinion on behalf of Pacific and Caribbean countries on whether greenhouse gases are pollutants that violate international law."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 09/12/2023
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"How the Land Back Movement is Unraveling Manifest Destiny" [16]

"Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time".

Environmental Justice [17]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Sierra [20], 09/12/2023
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Laurel Peltier Took On Utilities Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households [21]

"Policymakers hoped deregulated energy markets would lower utility bills through open competition. Energy advocates found the opposite: retail energy companies are fleecing low-income communities of color in cities like Baltimore."

Activism [22]
Consumer [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [17]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 09/12/2023
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Red Fire Ant Colonies Found In Italy Could Spread Across Europe: Study [27]

"An invasive non-native ant species has become established in Italy and could rapidly spread through Europe to the UK with global heating, a study warns."

Biodiversity [28]
Public [13]
Europe [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 09/12/2023
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"Companies Are Claiming To Be ‘Plastic Neutral.’ Is It Greenwashing?" [31]

"Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic."

Chemicals [32]
Consumer [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [33]
Journalism & Media [34]
Pollution [35]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Grist [38], 09/12/2023
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"In Its Push To Build Houses, Ontario Says Energy Efficiency Has To Wait" [39]

"Rules to ensure new homes use less energy could reduce homeowners’ bills. But at a meeting between the province and federal government, Ontario said it’s focused on building fast and cheap".

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [33]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
Canada [42]
Source: The Narwhal [43], 09/12/2023
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"NASA Satellites Reveal Restoration Power Of Beavers" [44]

"A new partnership between NASA and researchers is measuring the impact of beavers reintroduced to landscapes in Idaho."

Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [18]
Science [46]
Technology [47]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Source: Mongabay [49], 09/12/2023
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"U.N. Says More Needed 'On All Fronts' To Meet Climate Goals" [50]

"The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international talks aimed at stemming the climate crisis."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [51], 09/11/2023
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G20 Agree To Increase Clean Energy But No Deal On Phasing Out Fossil Fuels [52]

"Group of 20 leaders agreed Saturday to triple renewable energy and try to increase the funds for climate change-related disasters but maintained the status quo with regards to phasing out carbon spewing coal."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [33]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [53], 09/11/2023
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Feds Delay Decision In Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Review [54]

"The Dakota Access oil pipeline’s future remains uncertain after the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a long-awaited draft environmental study that will help determine whether it receives an easement needed to keep operating."

Activism [22]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [33]
Environmental Studies [55]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [18]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [56]
Source: E&E News [57], 09/11/2023
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As Climate-Fed Weather Disasters Hit More Farms, Crop Insurance Costs Soar [58]

"Critics of the federal program say it encourages more carbon-intensive farming and are calling for Congress to lower subsidies for big, wealthy producers."

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 09/11/2023
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"Can Golf Cure Its Water Addiction?" [61]

"Drought is making it harder for golf lovers to justify the game’s copious use of water".

Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [62], 09/11/2023
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Experts Warn of ‘Denialism Comeback’ Ahead of November’s Climate Talks" [63]

"Even amid a disaster-filled summer marked by record heat, climate misinformation continues to spread online at alarming rates. Some experts fear it could slow progress at COP28."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [33]
Journalism & Media [34]
Science [46]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 09/11/2023
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Water Hookups Come To Alaska Yup’ik Village; Residents Ditch Honey Buckets [65]

"Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph Moses start every workday riding a four-wheeler along the muddy roads of this small Yup’ik village on southwestern Alaska’s vast Kuskokwim River, looking for human waste."

Environmental Health [66]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [35]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [67]
Source: AP [68], 09/11/2023
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Trump Border Wall Caused Major Cultural And Environmental Harm: Watchdog [69]

"The construction of former President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border desecrated Indigenous cultural sites, hurt wildlife, destroyed vegetation, dried up key water resources, exacerbated the risk of flooding and triggered erosion that has left mountain slopes “unstable and at risk of collapse,” according to a new report."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Studies [55]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [70]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: HuffPost [71], 09/11/2023
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