EJToday: Top Headlines

Homes Evacuated After Train Carrying Ethanol Derails, Burns In Minnesota [9]

"A train hauling ethanol derailed Thursday morning in Raymond, Minnesota, igniting several rail cars and forcing nearby residents to evacuate, officials said."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [17]
Source: CNN [18], 03/30/2023
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"Cockroach Sex Took a Strange Turn. Now More Mutations Have Emerged." [19]

"Cockroaches are changing up their sex lives, and it’s all our fault. Faced with sweet poisoned bait, roaches first ended up with a mutation that made them hate sweets, hindering their mating strategies. Now, more roach mutations are emerging, showing you can’t keep a good pest down."

Biodiversity [20]
Chemicals [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 03/30/2023
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New Flu Spilling Over From Cows To People In U.S. Should We Worry? [23]

"In 2011, a farmer in Oklahoma had a bunch of sick pigs. The animals had what looked like the flu."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Health [14]
People & Population [24]
Science [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NPR [26], 03/29/2023
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"He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’" [27]

"Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats."

Environmental Politics [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Planning & Growth [30]
Science [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 03/29/2023
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"Congressional Democrats Call on EPA To Tighten Proposed Soot Standards" [33]

"More than 80 congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), urged the Biden administration to strengthen proposed rules on soot pollution in a letter Tuesday."

Air [34]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [37], 03/29/2023
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Judge Rules BNSF Intentionally Violated Agreement With Swinomish Tribe [38]

"BNSF intentionally violated the terms of an easement agreement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community when the railway company ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil over the reservation, a federal judge ruled Monday."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [39]
Laws & Regulations [35]
People & Population [24]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
Source: Seattle Times [41], 03/29/2023
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Plastics Cause Health Issues From Cancer To Birth Defects: Study [42]

"Plastics are responsible for wide-ranging health impacts including cancers, lung disease and birth defects, according to the first analysis of the health hazards of plastics across their entire life cycle – from extraction for manufacturing, through to dumping into landfill and oceans."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [43]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [31]
Source: Guardian [44], 03/29/2023
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Baltimore Blocks Treatment Of Contaminated Water From Ohio Train Derailment [45]

"An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer system, the latest challenge to cleaning the train derailment site amid opposition from communities unwilling to accept waste."

Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [47], 03/29/2023
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"Texas Officials Target Climate Science In Textbooks" [48]

"The Texas State Board of Education altered its internal guidance to schools last month to emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels in science textbooks."

Climate Change [49]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Science [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: E&E News [51], 03/29/2023
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"8th Circuit Delivers Climate Blow To Big Oil" [52]

"Oil and gas companies on Thursday lost what may have been their best shot at creating disagreement between federal appeals courts — a key consideration for Supreme Court review — on a jurisdictional issue that has the potential to quash a broad set of climate challenges launched by local governments that want industry to pay up for the impacts of a warming planet."

Climate Change [49]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [53], 03/29/2023
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"EPA Cites 2 Oil And Gas Firms Over Permian Basin Pollution" [54]

"Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."

Air [34]
Climate Change [49]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: AP [55], 03/29/2023
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When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide [56]

"In the fast-changing Bering Sea, a small tribe makes a big push to save their island".

Biodiversity [20]
Natural Resources [57]
People & Population [24]
Waste [58]
Water & Oceans [46]
Wildlife [59]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [60]
Source: Sierra [61], 03/29/2023
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"Electricity Generated by Renewables Surpasses Coal for First Time in US" [62]

"Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday."

Climate Change [49]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [63], 03/28/2023
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Lethal Supercell Storms To Hit South More Often As World Warms: New Study [64]

"America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee."

Climate Change [49]
Disasters [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [65], 03/28/2023
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"EU Countries Approve 2035 Phaseout of CO2-Emitting Cars" [66]

"European Union countries gave final approval on Tuesday to a landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany won an exemption for cars running on e-fuels."

Climate Change [49]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
Europe [67]
Source: Reuters [68], 03/28/2023
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