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At Mid-Year, SEJ Celebrates New Records, New Faces and Important Legacies [1]

SEJ board president Luke Runyon (pictured, left) shares news about the April 2024 annual conference in Philadelphia, conference director Jay Letto’s retirement, organizational updates, changes on the board of directors and upcoming elections, the new SEJ Future Council and the call for nominations for the annual Stolberg Meritorious Service Award.

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"Not a B Movie: Sharks Are Ingesting Cocaine In The Ocean, Scientists Find" [7]

"Scientists in Brazil have come up with the first evidence that sharks are being exposed to cocaine."

Biodiversity [8]
Chemicals [9]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [6]
South America [14]
Source: NPR [15], 07/26/2024
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"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants" [16]

"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."

Air [17]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: The Hill [21], 07/26/2024
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Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?" [22]

"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."

Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [3]
Public [6]
International [5]
Source: BBC Sport [23], 07/26/2024
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"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [24]

"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [11]
Transportation [27]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Source: Grist [29], 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA" [30]

"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."

Air [17]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Pollution [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
International [5]
Source: E&E News [31], 07/26/2024
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"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [32]

"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: E&E News [34], 07/26/2024
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US Targets Emissions of N2O With Eye Toward US-China Climate Agreement [35]

"Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from U.S. chemical plants could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at little cost. Similar plants in China offer a “far bigger prize.”"

Air [17]
Climate Change [18]
Pollution [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Asia [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 07/26/2024
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"How ‘Carbon Cowboys’ Are Cashing In On Protected Amazon Forest" [38]

"A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest."

Climate Change [18]
Forests [39]
Public [6]
South America [14]
Source: Washington Post [40], 07/26/2024
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"Pesticide Exposure As Risky As Smoking, Study Finds" [41]

"People who don’t farm, but live in US agricultural communities where pesticides are used on farms, face an increased cancer risk as significant as if they were smokers, according to a new study."

Agriculture [42]
Chemicals [9]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: The New Lede [43], 07/26/2024
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