EJToday: Top Headlines

"14 New Environmental Books to Kickstart Your Summer Reading List" [9]

"Writers like Kim Stanley Robinson, Barry Lopez, Sy Montgomery and others celebrate the fragile beauty of this modern world — and address how to help save it."

"Summer is normally beach-read season, the time of year when publishers pump out potboilers and steamy romances to fill the sun-drenched days.

But what if your local beach is polluted, flooded, plagued with invasive species or just too darn hot?
Journalism & Media [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: The Revelator [13], 07/06/2022
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Biden Administration Offers an Offshore Drilling Plan. Few Backers [14]

"The five-year plan for America’s coastal waters, required by law, risks angering both the fossil fuel industry and environmentalists."

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [19], 07/05/2022
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Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins And Wildfires — How War Hurts Nature [20]

"When the fighter jet crashed into these northwestern Ukrainian woods, killing its 27-year-old pilot, splintering trees and spewing fuel, it tore a gash in the forest canopy. Then it exploded. The wildfire that followed charred trees and earth, threatening two nearby villages."

Disasters [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Forests [23]
Military [24]
Public [11]
International [25]
Source: NPR [26], 07/05/2022
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"Youngkin Appoints Former Trump EPA Head To New Deregulation Office" [27]

"Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Friday appointed former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler to a newly created Office of Regulatory Management, months after state lawmakers voted Wheeler down for another position."

Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: The Hill [30], 07/05/2022
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"Environmental Justice Advocates Slam Supreme Court Ruling" [31]

"The Supreme Court decision to limit how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could make an already grave situation worse for those affected most by climate change and air pollution, advocates say."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [34]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [35], 07/05/2022
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Newsom Signs Nation’s Most Sweeping Law To Phase Out Single-Use Plastics [36]

"Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging."

Chemicals [37]
Consumer [38]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Waste [39]
Public [11]
California [40]
Source: LA Times [41], 07/05/2022
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"Climate Change: 'Sand Battery' Could Solve Green Energy's Big Problem" [42]

"Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time."

Energy & Fuel [15]
Technology [43]
Public [11]
International [25]
Source: BBC News [44], 07/05/2022
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"Kerry: Despite Setbacks At Home, US To Make Climate Goals" [45]

"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Friday that setbacks for President Joe Biden’s climate efforts at home have “slowed the pace” of some of the commitments from other countries to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuels, but he insisted the U.S. would still achieve its own ambitious climate goals in time."

Climate Change [32]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [46], 07/05/2022
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"The EPA Prepares For Its 'Counterpunch' After The Supreme Court Ruling" [47]

"The Supreme Court's ruling that curbs the power of the Environment Protection Agency will slow its ability to respond to the climate crisis, but "does not take the EPA out of the game," according to the agency's administrator Michael Regan."

Climate Change [32]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NPR [48], 07/05/2022
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"EPA Sets Wildlife Protections On 3 Pesticides" [49]

"EPA has set new restrictions on the use of three commonly used pesticides, including the highly controversial chemical chlorpyrifos."

Agriculture [50]
Biodiversity [51]
Chemicals [37]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [52]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [53], 07/05/2022
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UK: "Environment Agency Chief Hits Out At Greenwashing By Businesses" [54]

"Widespread greenwashing by businesses is compromising efforts to prepare for climate impacts such as floods and heatwaves, the chair of the Environment Agency will say in a speech on Monday."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [10]
Public [11]
Europe [55]
Source: Guardian [56], 07/05/2022
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"Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Power To Combat Climate Change" [57]

"The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to the Biden administration’s plans for combating climate change."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Washington Post [58], 07/01/2022
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"The U.S. Is Ditching Coal. The Supreme Court Ruling Won’t Change That." [59]

"When conservative environmental lawyer Jeffrey Holmstead joined the Bracewell firm in late 2006, it represented the whole range of electric power companies, including coal-fired utilities and coal mining firms. Not anymore. The chief executives of electric utilities, wary of the perils of climate change, are marching away from coal, as well as other fossil fuels."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Washington Post [60], 07/01/2022
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"How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision" [61]

"Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought the fossil fuel billionaire the ruling he’s always wanted."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: The Hill [62], 07/01/2022
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Biden Admin Oil, Gas Auctions Kick Off With Thin Industry Response [63]

"The Biden administration's first sale of oil and gas drilling rights on federal land garnered thin industry interest on Wednesday while environmental groups filed two separate lawsuits seeking to invalidate the results."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Reuters [64], 07/01/2022
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