EJToday: Top Headlines

"Minnesota Ojibwe Harvest Sacred, Climate-Imperiled Wild Rice" [9]

"Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Food [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: AP [20], 09/23/2022
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Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases [21]

"The Senate voted on Wednesday to approve an international climate treaty for the first time in 30 years, agreeing in a rare bipartisan deal to phase out of the use of planet-warming industrial chemicals commonly found in refrigerators and air-conditioners."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [25], 09/22/2022
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"Manchin Releases Permitting Reform Package" [26]

"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin released his long-promised permitting reform plan this evening."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [31], 09/22/2022
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"Biden Meets With U.K. Leader Under Cloud Of Climate Skepticism" [32]

"President Joe Biden celebrated his climate victories at the United Nations on Wednesday. Then he sat down with British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who is staffing the highest ranks of her new government with officials who reject climate science.

The meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York offered Biden an international stage to tell world leaders that he had delivered on his boldest climate pledges. He called them a “global game changer.”
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Science [33]
Public [18]
International [34]
Source: E&E News [35], 09/22/2022
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"Revealed: The ‘Shocking’ Levels Of Toxic Lead In Chicago Tap Water" [36]

"One in 20 tap water tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, at or above US government limits, according to a Guardian analysis of a City of Chicago data trove."

Chemicals [37]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [40]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: Guardian [41], 09/22/2022
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"Climate Reporting Gets EPA Help as Wall Street Rules Face Fight" [42]

"The EPA is poised to scrutinize companies’ pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while Wall Street’s regulator braces for a court battle over its sweeping plan to police corporate disclosures about climate change.

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [43]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [44], 09/22/2022
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"Atlantic Canada On Hurricane Fiona's Path, Broad Impact Expected" [45]

"Hurricane Fiona is headed toward eastern Canada and is expected to reach the Atlantic region by Friday in what could be a severe weather event as the storm continues to gain strength, Canadian meteorologists said on Wednesday."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [46]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Canada [47]
Source: Reuters [48], 09/22/2022
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"NIH Advisers Urge Tighter Oversight Of Experiments On Deadly Viruses" [49]

"Biosecurity advisers to the federal government are calling for tighter scrutiny of experiments with potentially dangerous viruses and other pathogens, reflecting an ongoing debate within the scientific community over the benefits and risks of such laboratory research."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Health [39]
Government [50]
Science [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [51], 09/22/2022
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"Exclusive: U.S. EPA To Consider Tougher Emissions Rules For Heavy Trucks" [52]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider adopting more stringent greenhouse gas emissions rules for heavy trucks after Congress passed new incentives to speed the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, the agency told Reuters."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Transportation [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Reuters [54], 09/22/2022
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How EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled [55]

"When Sally Rand, a former EPA official, used to meet with industry executives to discuss an obscure, but incredibly potent and long-lived group of greenhouse gases, she knew how to get their attention."

Chemicals [37]
Climate Change [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 09/22/2022
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"New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions" [57]

"Four whales have died near San Francisco this year after ships crashed into them, and scientists hope to drive that number to zero with new technology."

Biodiversity [11]
Technology [58]
Transportation [53]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [59]
Source: NYTimes [60], 09/22/2022
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"Kigali Climate Treaty Clears Senate Hurdle" [61]

"The Senate cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday afternoon before moving to ratify the international climate deal to phase down the use of potent greenhouse gases stemming from refrigerants and air conditioning units."

Air [62]
Chemicals [37]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [38]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [63], 09/21/2022
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"Biden to Skip UN Climate Meeting as Issue Moves to ‘Back Burner’" [64]

"President Joe Biden is set to miss a United Nations roundtable on climate action Wednesday afternoon in New York, stoking concern that other G-7 leaders will also forgo the session meant to help pave the way for international global warming negotiations later this year."

Climate Change [12]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [34]
Source: Bloomberg [65], 09/21/2022
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"Louisiana Takes Big Step Toward Unprecedented Land-Building Project" [66]

"Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion project to divert water and sediment from the Mississippi River into Barataria Basin as part of an unprecedented plan to fight coastal land loss moved a major step forward on Monday with the release by the Army Corps of Engineers of a final environmental impact statement."

Environmental Studies [28]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [67]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [68], 09/21/2022
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"Al Gore Calls the World Bank Chief a 'Climate Denier'" [69]

"President Biden should work for the removal of the head of the World Bank, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday, calling him a “climate denier” at an event coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [43]
Environmental Politics [22]
Science [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [34]
Source: NYTimes [70], 09/21/2022
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