EJToday: Top Headlines

"Is That an Outlaw Lawn? Las Vegas Has a New Approach to Saving Water" [9]

"With drought and growth taking a toll on the Colorado River, the source of 90 percent of the region’s water, a new law mandates the removal of turf, patch by patch."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 05/03/2022
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"Firefighters Battling New Mexico Blaze Brace For Wind" [15]

"More than 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the US on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a town in northern New Mexico."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [16]
Forests [17]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: AP [19], 05/02/2022
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"EPA Staff Backs Status Quo On Ozone Limits In Blow To Enviros" [20]

"EPA staffers have tentatively concluded that the agency’s ground-level ozone standards do not need to be strengthened, reaffirming a Trump administration decision on one of the agency’s most closely watched pollutant limits."

Air [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Science [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [26], 05/02/2022
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"Why Americans Became More Vulnerable to Oil Price Spikes" [27]

"When prices soared years ago, Americans launched broad efforts to wean the nation off oil and gas to protect households from price swings. But then supply rose and plans fizzled."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [31], 05/02/2022
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"Buffeted by Weather, a Historic Black Town Strives To Endure" [32]

"As she exits her hometown’s only restaurant clutching an order of cabbage and hush puppies, Carolyn Suggs Bandy pauses to boast about a place that stakes its claim as the oldest town chartered by Black Americans nearly 140 years ago."

Agriculture [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [34]
Pollution [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: AP [36], 05/02/2022
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"Rescuing The Massive Swamp Our Country Depends On But Has Mostly Forgotten" [37]

"Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, the nation’s largest cypress swamp, nurtures an abundant ecosystem and protects a critical coast. But years of exploitation and neglect have made it a “ticking time bomb.”"

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: HuffPost [40], 05/02/2022
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New Iron Curtain Eroding Norway's Hard-Won Ties With Russia On Arctic [41]

"Capt. Pal Bratbak has patrolled the Barents Sea for decades. His Norwegian coast guard search and rescue cutter mostly chases after distress calls from fishermen. The fishermen are chasing the cod — and the cod sometimes lead them astray."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [30]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Military [43]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
Antarctica & Arctic [44]
Europe [45]
Source: NPR [46], 05/02/2022
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"Rob Bilott On His 20-Year Fight Against Forever Chemicals" [47]

"Last month, an Ohio court certified a class action lawsuit brought by lawyer Rob Bilott that would cover 7 million people – and at some point possibly everyone living in the United States – who have been exposed to certain hazardous “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS."

Chemicals [48]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Military [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [49], 05/02/2022
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"EPA Proposes Scaling Back Weedkiller Tied To Cancer" [50]

"EPA has proposed to end the use of the weedkiller diuron on most food crops, citing cancer risks to people who are exposed as well as danger to bees and other wildlife."

Agriculture [33]
Chemicals [48]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [51], 05/02/2022
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Calif. Accuses Exxon Deceiving Public, Push ‘Myth’ Of Plastics Recycling [52]

"California’s attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in plastic waste pollution."

Energy & Fuel [29]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [54]
Source: LA Times [55], 05/02/2022
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"The Tick That Makes People Allergic To Red Meat Is in D.C." [56]

"One bite from a lone star tick could cause an allergy to red meat for life"

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [57]
Environmental Health [22]
Food [58]
Wildlife [59]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [60], 05/02/2022
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"16 States, D.C., Climate Activists Sue USPS To Block Truck Purchase" [61]

""Sixteen states, the District of Columbia and environmental activist groups are suing the U.S. Postal Service to block its purchase of 148,000 gas-guzzling delivery trucks over the next decade, alleging the agency has vastly underestimated the vehicles’ costs and adverse ecological impact."

Activism [62]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [63]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [64], 04/29/2022
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Warming Risks Most Cataclysmic Extinction Of Marine Life In 250M Years [65]

"Global heating is causing such a drastic change to the world’s oceans that it risks a mass extinction event of marine species that rivals anything that’s happened in the Earth’s history over tens of millions of years, new research has warned."

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
International [66]
Source: Guardian [67], 04/29/2022
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"Solar Industry ‘Frozen’ as Biden Administration Investigates China" [68]

"More than 300 solar projects in the United States have been canceled or delayed in recent weeks because of an investigation by the Commerce Department."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [69], 04/29/2022
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California AG Subpoenas Exxon For Details On Role In Plastic Pollution [70]

"California's attorney general announced on Thursday he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for information on its role in causing the global plastic waste crisis."

Chemicals [48]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Waste [71]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [72], 04/29/2022
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