EJToday: Top Headlines

"The Razor's Edge of A Warming World" [9]

"As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
People & Population [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: GQ [15], 04/07/2022
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"EPA Rule Would Finally Ban Asbestos, Carcinogen Still In Use" [16]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [22], 04/06/2022
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"House Dems Tell USPS To Pump The Brakes On Gas-Guzzling Truck Contract" [23]

"A top House Democrat told senior U.S. Postal Service officials Tuesday that the agency “needs to go back to the drawing board” on an $11.3 billion plan to replace its aging delivery vehicles with up to 148,000 gas-guzzling trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to make the federal fleet more “green” and opposition from environmental regulators."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Transportation [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [27], 04/06/2022
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Food, Farming, Forestry Must Change To Curb Global Warming, U.N. Says [28]

"Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [10]
Food [30]
Forests [31]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [32], 04/06/2022
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"Native American Tribe Reacquires Hundreds Of Acres in Virginia" [33]

"The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday the return of more than 400 acres of land to an indigenous tribe in Virginia."

Environmental Justice [34]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: The Hill [36], 04/06/2022
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"Gallup Finds Worries About Environment Have Grown Since Trump" [37]

"A new poll from Gallup finds that nearly half of all Americans worry “a great deal” about the environment, and that concerns have risen since before former President Trump took office."

Environmental Politics [25]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [38], 04/06/2022
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Climate Change Risks Trillions To Federal Budget, White House Says [39]

"Floods, drought, wildfires and hurricanes made worse by climate change could cost the U.S. federal budget about $2 trillion each year — a 7.1% loss in annual revenue — by the end of the century, the White House said in an assessment on Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: CNBC [41], 04/06/2022
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"Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire" [42]

"The Indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego were once relegated to historical oblivion. Now, archaeologists are helping them pursue deeper stories about their ancestors."

People & Population [12]
Public [13]
South America [43]
Source: Hakai [44], 04/06/2022
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"UN: 18 Nations Have Gone Green On Climate, Raked In Green" [45]

"Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it’s possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world’s top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions “for at least a decade” as their economies continued to grow."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [40]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [46], 04/06/2022
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"With Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Arctic Science Crumbles" [47]

"Russian scientists are being barred from international collaborations, including at-sea surveys and scientific conferences."

Environmental Politics [25]
Environmental Studies [48]
Military [49]
Science [50]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Hakai [51], 04/06/2022
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"‘Superblooms of Fungus’: Climate Change Is Making Valley Fever Worse" [52]

"It was June 2020, and Shirley, a winemaker in Paso Robles, Calif., knew something was terribly wrong. He was going about his daily business when he doubled over with severe abdominal pain and a 103-degree fever. A doctor in the emergency room told him his left lung had collapsed. But what ailed Shirley, now 50, wasn’t COVID-19: It was valley fever."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [13]
California [53]
Source: LA Times [54], 04/06/2022
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"Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns" [55]

"Nations need to move away much faster from fossil fuels to retain any hope of preventing a perilous future on an overheated planet, according to a major new report on climate change released on Monday, although they have made some progress because of the falling costs of clean energy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [25]
Environmental Studies [48]
Forests [31]
Government [56]
Infrastructure [57]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: NYTimes [58], 04/05/2022
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Sold As A Dream For Black Home Buyers, Development Was A Toxic Nightmare [59]

"Viola Allen’s dream home sits atop a nightmare. The city of New Orleans built 67 ranch-style houses on a sprawling former garbage dump in the late 1970s without saying a word to the Black, mostly first-time home buyers who were encouraged to move there by city officials."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [34]
Infrastructure [57]
Pollution [60]
Waste [61]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [62]
Source: Washington Post [63], 04/05/2022
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Opinion: "It’s Time for Journalists to Talk Climate Change Solutions" [64]

"News organizations have gotten better at saying “it’s real” but seem less ready to tell people “there’s hope”"

Climate Change [10]
Journalism & Media [65]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Nieman Reports [66], 04/05/2022
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"WHO Says 99% Of World’s Population Breathes Poor-Quality Air" [67]

"The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year."

Air [68]
Environmental Health [18]
Pollution [60]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [69], 04/05/2022
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