"Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm octopuses to harvest them for seafood, the plan sparked an uproar."
"EPA is pushing to hire for hundreds of job openings this year as the agency strives to fulfill its expanded mandate under President Joe Biden’s trademark climate and infrastructure laws."
"The introduction of a new forecast track graphic in mid-August will do more than show the expected area where hurricanes and tropical storms may travel. It will also depict where wind watches and warnings are posted to better warn of dangers residents outside the cone are facing."
"A coalition of environmental and animal protection groups said Wednesday that it will sue to overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to remove Northern Rocky gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act."
"The EU aims to slash its net greenhouse gas pollution by 90% by 2040 as part of its push to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent, the European Commission has announced before elections in June."
"Attorneys general from 13 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen a proposal that seeks to limit Americans’ exposure to lead service lines."
"Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy."
Dengue fever has surged in Brazil's hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness."
"Dealing a blow to three of the world’s biggest agrochemical companies, a US court this week banned three weedkillers widely used in American agriculture, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke the law in allowing them to be on the market."
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday tightened limits on fine industrial particles, one of the most common and deadliest forms of air pollution, for the first time in a decade." "The E.P.A. says the new rule will prevent 4,500 premature deaths annually. Industry leaders are expected to challenge the regulation, saying it will harm the economy."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seafood-firm-wants-farm-octopus-activists-say-theyre-too-smart
[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1229233837/octopus-farm-spain-controversy
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-targets-400-hires-climate-infrastructure-laws-2024
[4] https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-targets-400-hires-for-climate-infrastructure-laws-in-2024/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cone-uncertainty-changing-2024-hurricane-season-heres-why
[6] https://www.nola.com/news/environment/hurricane-forecast-cone-recast-to-better-show-inland-threats/article_16be53c0-c53e-11ee-be9a-378347ebbc34.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/another-major-legal-battle-brewing-over-killing-gray-wolves
[8] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gray-wolves-legal-battle_n_65c3f04ae4b0fb721d5f80df
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/eu-lays-out-plan-cut-greenhouse-emissions-90-2040
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/06/eu-lays-out-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-emissions-by-90-by-2040
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/13-blue-states-say-epa-should-strengthen-proposal-remove-lead-pipes
[12] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4452036-13-blue-states-say-epa-should-strengthen-proposal-to-remove-lead-water-pipes/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/misplaced-trust
[14] https://grist.org/project/equity/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dengue-spreads-fast-brazil-prompting-emergency-health-measures
[16] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dengue-spreads-fast-brazil-prompting-emergency-health-measures-2024-02-07/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-bans-three-weedkillers-and-finds-epa-broke-law-approval-process
[18] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/07/us-weedkiller-ban-dicamba-epa
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-administration-toughens-limits-deadly-air-pollution
[20] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/climate/epa-air-pollution-soot.html
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=584
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=581
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=582
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=583
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=586
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=587
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=588
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=589
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4944