Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws: Report
"With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws."
Source: DeSmog, 11/04/2025
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).
"Poultry Plants Consistently Violate Salmonella Standards, Report Finds"
"Several of the country’s largest chicken and turkey companies operate processing plants that routinely violate the federal government’s safety standards for salmonella contamination, according to a new analysis released by the animal welfare organization Farm Forward."
Source: Civil Eats, 11/04/2025"Emergency Language In Wildfire Bill Splits Environmentalists"
"A fast-moving bill to reduce wildfire risks in national forests would give the Agriculture Department a work-around past even the bill’s modest environmental safeguards, making the measure tough to swallow for some environmentalists and Hill Democrats."
Source: E&E News, 11/04/2025Citizen Pollution Monitoring Persists In Louisiana, Despite Law That Limits It
"Communities around Louisiana, in a bid to get more information about the environmental and health impacts of industrial pollution, are taking data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their research findings can be used to enforce state regulations. "
Source: Louisiana Illuminator, 11/04/2025Exxon-Funded Thinktanks To Spread Climate Denial In Latin America: Documents
"Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
Source: Guardian, 11/04/2025"Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?"
"Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for forest conservation, but some ecologists and economists are raising concerns."
Source: YaleE360, 11/04/2025"Mussels Reveal Growing Microplastic Pollution In Greece's Prized Seas"
"Overtourism and heavy maritime traffic across the Mediterranean are contributing to a rise in pollution in Greece's azure waters, say Greek scientists who have deployed thousands of mussels on the seafloor to help detect microplastics."
Source: Reuters, 11/04/2025"Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants"
"The U.S. Department of Energy has announced up to $100 million in federal funding for projects modernizing the nation’s remaining coal plants, nearly half of which were slated to close by 2030."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/04/2025How Powerful Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out
"In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/04/2025"Video Shows Orcas Hunting Great White Sharks And Devouring Their Livers"
"A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open." "Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks."
Source: NBC News, 11/04/2025"Energy Bills Are Rising Nationwide. In Georgia, They’re On The Ballot."
"The race for two seats on the obscure board that regulates Georgia’s utilities is drawing national attention — and could have major implications both for electricity affordability and one of the biggest planned fossil-fuel buildouts in the nation."
Source: Canary Media, 11/03/2025"CBS News Just Gutted Its Climate Team"
"Americans who rely on broadcast networks for honest journalism suffered a painful loss this week, as CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change."
Source: Climate Colored Goggles, 11/03/2025Wash. Court Restores $185 Million Verdict For Teachers Poisoned By PCBs
"The Washington Supreme Court this week restored a $185 million verdict against the former Monsanto company, now owned by Bayer, over toxic chemicals in a state school building that allegedly poisoned three teachers."
Source: The New Lede, 11/03/2025"EPA: Superfund Cleanup ‘Likely’ Fouled Pennsylvania Town’s Water"
"Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water."
Source: E&E News, 11/03/2025Sludge Is Used As Fertilizer Across Wisconsin. How Much Is Tainted By PFAS?
"Sludge and septage are spread across around half a million acres statewide, but most of it has never been tested for PFAS"
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/03/2025
Advertisement 
