"Nobody Is Happy With the Federal Grazing Program"
"Not the environmentalists. Not the ranchers. Not the public employees. In some cases, not even the cows."
Source: Earther, 01/30/2023
EJToday: Top Headlines
EJToday is a daily weekday digest of top environment/energy news and information of interest to environmental journalists, independently curated by Editor Joseph A. Davis. Sign up below to receive in your inbox. For queries, email EJToday@SEJ.org. For more info, read an EJToday FAQ. Plus, follow EJToday on social media at @EJTodayNews, and flag stories of note by including the @EJTodayNews handle on your posts. And tell us how to make EJToday even better by taking this brief survey.
Want to join the EJToday team? Volunteer time commitments can vary from just an hour a month up to a daily contribution, and would involve helping to curate content of interest. To learn more, reach out to the director of publications, Adam Glenn, at sejournaleditor@sej.org.
Note: Members have additional options to choose from (you'll need your log-in info).
"Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest"
"“The Territory,” a documentary about the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people’s fight to protect their land, spotlights the unique natural music of the rainforest."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/30/2023"Biden Administration Sets a Mining Ban in Boundary Waters Wilderness"
"The Biden administration on Thursday said it will establish a 20-year moratorium on mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a vast preserve of lakes and woods that has been at the center of a fierce dispute over a proposed copper and nickel mine."
Source: NYTimes, 01/27/2023"Town Where Child Cancer Rose Blasts Deal Over Polluted Site"
"In hindsight, it’s clear that something was very wrong in this suburban town at the Jersey Shore, where many people worked at or lived near a chemical company that was flushing toxic waste into waterways and burying it in the ground."
Source: AP, 01/27/2023"Lax Oversight Allows U.S. Refineries To Pollute Waterways - Report"
"Weak U.S. water protection rules and federal oversight has allowed dozens of U.S. oil refineries to dump toxic chemicals and metals into the nation’s waterways, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) said in a report released on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 01/27/2023"Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company"
"Puerto Rican authorities have hired a natural gas company to operate the island’s publicly-owned fleet of fossil fuel power plants, despite the commonwealth facing increasing pressure to rapidly transition its aging energy system to renewable sources."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/27/2023"U.S. Native Seed Shortage Hinders Land Restoration - Report"
"The United States is facing a shortage of the native seeds it uses to restore natural habitats damaged by wildfire and other weather events made worse by climate change, according to a report released on Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)."
Source: Reuters, 01/27/2023Colorado River Is Overused And Shrinking. Crisis Transforms The Southwest
"The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Like arteries, its major tributaries take shape across Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, coming together in a great river like no other — a river that travels more than 1,400 miles and has defined the rise of the American Southwest over the last century."
Source: LA Times, 01/27/2023"Meet The Top House Recipients Of Oil And Gas Money"
"The oil and gas industry donated millions of dollars to members of the House in the last election cycle. Now, many of the top recipients are well-positioned to advance its interests."
Source: E&E News, 01/27/2023In Atlanta, a Deadly Forest Protest Sparks Debate Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’
"Manuel Esteban Paez Teran seemed to be everyone’s favorite social justice activist. ... Now the 26-year-old activist is dead."
Source: Washington Post, 01/27/2023"Climate Groups Decry Selection Of Oil Chief To Oversee COP28"
"Hundreds of climate and environmental groups from around the world released a letter Thursday that decried the nomination of an oil executive to oversee the United Nations climate negotiations at COP28 this year.
Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates, host of the U.N. climate talks this year, named Sultan al-Jaber to the presidency of the conference Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. The company he runs as chief executive, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., produces 4 million barrels of crude oil per day and hopes to expand to 5 million daily by the end of the decade.
Source: AP, 01/27/2023"New Museum In Mexico Spotlights Endangered Axolotl Salamander"
"A new museum and conservation center dedicated to Mexico's critically endangered axolotl salamander is highlighting the amphibian's remarkable story that has captured the attention of scientists and the public alike."
Source: Reuters, 01/27/2023"Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest"
"The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has banned logging and road-building on about nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, aiming to settle a two-decade battle over the fate of North America’s largest temperate rainforest."
Source: NYTimes, 01/26/2023Enviros Seek Tougher Oil And Gas Rules To Protect Rare Whale In Gulf
"Environmental scientists say Rice’s whale, discovered in 2021, faces extinction unless the federal government sets tougher restrictions on oil and gas activities in the gulf."
Source: Texas Tribune, 01/26/2023Bill To Withdraw Va. From Carbon-Trading Program Dies In State Committee
"A committee of the Virginia Senate on Tuesday defeated a bill backed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that would withdraw the state from a regional carbon-trading initiative."
Source: The Hill, 01/26/2023
Advertisement 
