EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Butterfly Conservatory Is Shutting Down Due To Right-Wing Harassment" [9]

"The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced that it's closing its doors "for the immediate future" after ongoing harassment directed at employees and the center itself."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: NPR [17], 02/03/2022
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"Manchin, Key Dem, Says Build Back Better Bill Is ‘Dead’" [18]

"Sen. Joe Manchin declared Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s vast social and environment bill is “dead,” using his strongest language to date to underscore that any revival of Democrats’ top domestic priorities would have to arise from negotiations that are now moribund."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [23], 02/02/2022
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"Va. Senate Panel Snubs Trump EPA Chief for Youngkin’s Cabinet" [24]

"A state Senate committee on Tuesday rejected former Trump administration official Andrew Wheeler for Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet — a rare snub that is not likely to end the Republican governor’s efforts to install Wheeler as secretary of natural and historic resources."

Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Washington Post [26], 02/02/2022
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All Coral Will Suffer Severe Bleaching When Heating Hits 1.5C: Study [27]

"Almost no corals on the planet will escape severe bleaching once global heating reaches 1.5C, according to a new study of the world’s reefs."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [19]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [31], 02/02/2022
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Illegal Overfishing By Chinese Trawlers Leaves Sierra Leone ‘Starving’ [32]

"As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless".

Environmental Justice [33]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [34], 02/02/2022
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"NPS Employees Face A Worsening Housing Crunch As Prices Soar" [35]

"Park superintendents across the country these days find themselves keeping close tabs on the real estate market."

Government [36]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [37], 02/02/2022
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"Biden Officials Head To EPA Regional Offices" [38]

"EPA has sent a number of political officials to its regional offices, including a former top aide to Administrator Michael Regan."

Environmental Politics [11]
Government [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [39], 02/02/2022
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"Climate Change A Rising Fed Concern As Nominees Face Hearing" [40]

"How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to the Fed’s influential Board of Governors."

Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [42], 02/02/2022
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"Climate Change May Be Fueling Increase In Major Northeast Snowstorms" [43]

"Scientists say the recent surge of intense Northeast winter storms is probably tied to rising ocean temperatures and changes in the Arctic".

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [44]
Public [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Source: Washington Post [46], 02/02/2022
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O'Rourke Driving Pickup Across Texas To Highlight Issues With Grid [47]

"Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke (D) will be driving over 2,000 miles across the state over 12 days this month to bring attention to its infrastructure."

Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: The Hill [48], 02/02/2022
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Groundhog Day 2022: Punxsutawney Phil Furrsees Six More Weeks Of Winter [49]

"Here ye! Here ye! Punxsutawney Phil has chirped — another six weeks of winter will be!"

Journalism & Media [50]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [51], 02/02/2022
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"Biden Begins Crackdown On Power Plant Pollution" [52]

"Biden administration officials are kicking off a crackdown on power plant pollution, aiming to shift the nation’s electricity supply to cleaner energy in the face of congressional resistance and a Supreme Court that could limit the federal government’s ability to tighten public health standards."

Air [53]
Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [54]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [55], 02/01/2022
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"Georgia Power Plans To Double Renewables, Ditch All Coal" [56]

"Southern Co.’s Georgia Power utility announced a plan yesterday to double its renewable energy footprint by 2035 as it maps out a path to close the rest of its coal fleet in that time."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Source: E&E News [58], 02/01/2022
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"‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams" [59]

"A new generation of pesticides promoted as safe alternatives to compounds shown to endanger the environment and public health are turning up in California streams at toxic levels, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey report."

Agriculture [60]
Chemicals [61]
Environmental Health [54]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [14]
California [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 02/01/2022
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Count Estimates Earth Has 73,000 Tree Species – 14% More Than Reported [64]

"There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species."

Biodiversity [10]
Forests [65]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [66], 02/01/2022
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