EJToday: Top Headlines

"China Sows Disinformation About Hawaii Fires Using New Techniques" [9]

"Beijing’s influence campaign using artificial intelligence is a rapid change in tactics, researchers from Microsoft and other organizations say."

"When wildfires swept across Maui last month with destructive fury, China’s increasingly resourceful information warriors pounced.
Journalism & Media [10]
Military [11]
Science [12]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 09/13/2023
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UK Govt. May Have Broken Environmental Law On Sewage Overflows: Watchdog [17]

"Britain's government and water regulator may have failed to comply with environmental law over the regulation of untreated sewage releases, the country's environmental protection watchdog said on Tuesday."

Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
Europe [22]
Source: Reuters [23], 09/13/2023
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Hurricane Lee Swirls Through Open Waters On A Path Toward Atlantic Canada [24]

"Hurricane Lee whirled north of Puerto Rico on Tuesday as a very large Category 3 storm, with forecasters noting it would remain in open waters through this week while on a path toward Atlantic Canada."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [26]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Canada [28]
Source: AP [29], 09/13/2023
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"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy" [30]

"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."

Air [31]
Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [33], 09/13/2023
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"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms" [34]

"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [14]
International [15]
Asia [35]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [36], 09/13/2023
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"‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca" [37]

"Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder-studded freestone trout stream."

Climate Change [25]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [39]
Source: NYTimes [40], 09/13/2023
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"Trying To Kill Mosquitoes? Don’t Buy A Bug Zapper." [41]

"Every night, a mass murderer stalks the darkness of America’s suburbs. An eerie blue glow lures hapless victims from their homes. The doomed souls, mesmerized by the light, throng to their deaths in sizzling blasts of electricity."

Biodiversity [42]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [18]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Washington Post [44], 09/13/2023
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"Congress Enters Pivotal Week On Spending" [45]

"How to prevent a looming potential government shutdown will dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, with the House and Senate considering divergent strategies for keeping agencies running."

Environmental Politics [46]
Government [47]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [48], 09/12/2023
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2023 Had More Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Than Any Year On Record [49]

"New government data released Monday revealed that the U.S. has already experienced more billion-dollar weather disasters in 2023 than in any other year since authorities started tracking such data 40-plus years ago." "The staggering tally comes with four months of the year still remaining."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [50]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: HuffPost [51], 09/12/2023
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"Climate Change Is Causing an Insurance Crisis in Louisiana" [52]

"A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town."

Climate Change [25]
Consumer [43]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Bloomberg Green [53], 09/12/2023
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"Island Nations Hope for Court’s Help on Climate’s Effects" [54]

"A tribunal is expected to issue an advisory opinion on behalf of Pacific and Caribbean countries on whether greenhouse gases are pollutants that violate international law."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [26]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [55], 09/12/2023
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"How the Land Back Movement is Unraveling Manifest Destiny" [56]

"Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time".

Environmental Justice [57]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [58]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Sierra [59], 09/12/2023
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Laurel Peltier Took On Utilities Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households [60]

"Policymakers hoped deregulated energy markets would lower utility bills through open competition. Energy advocates found the opposite: retail energy companies are fleecing low-income communities of color in cities like Baltimore."

Activism [61]
Consumer [43]
Energy & Fuel [62]
Environmental Justice [57]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 09/12/2023
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Red Fire Ant Colonies Found In Italy Could Spread Across Europe: Study [65]

"An invasive non-native ant species has become established in Italy and could rapidly spread through Europe to the UK with global heating, a study warns."

Biodiversity [42]
Public [14]
Europe [22]
Source: Guardian [66], 09/12/2023
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"Companies Are Claiming To Be ‘Plastic Neutral.’ Is It Greenwashing?" [67]

"Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic."

Chemicals [32]
Consumer [43]
Energy & Fuel [62]
Environmental Politics [46]
Journalism & Media [10]
Pollution [20]
Waste [68]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Grist [69], 09/12/2023
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