EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling" [9]

"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.

The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.
Air [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 11/24/2025
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"Trump’s Energy Department Revamp Nixes Clean-Energy Offices" [22]

"The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [25]
Pollution [17]
Technology [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg [27], 11/24/2025
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"Arid States Prepare for EPA to Walk Away From Their Wetlands" [28]

"Southwestern states are bracing for many of their streams to lose federal safeguards under the EPA’s proposal to lift Clean Water Act protections for many wetlands and waterways across the US. New Mexico, Arizona, California, and other arid states face the brunt of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal because it explicitly excludes streams that only run when it rains—one of the most common kinds of waterways in the desert Southwest."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [32], 11/24/2025
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Global Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Pollutant Falls Short, UN Says [33]

"Despite the efforts of more than half of all countries worldwide to curb a key climate super-pollutant, a report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme at the U.N. climate summit shows that global methane emissions continue to climb at a troubling pace."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 11/24/2025
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Tribal Radio Funding, Future Remain Uncertain After Clawback Of CPB Money [36]

'For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station Zephier manages, has gone digital and no longer needs the records. The station is selling the records, because what it needs is cash."

Disasters [37]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [40]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [41]
Source: South Dakota Searchlight [42], 11/24/2025
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Calif. Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields [43]

"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [44]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [40]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [30]
Source: Capital & Main [45], 11/21/2025
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CDC Site Now Denies Scientific Conclusion That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism [46]

"A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts."

Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [48]
Journalism & Media [39]
People & Population [40]
Science [49]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [50], 11/21/2025
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"More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30" [51]

"More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [52]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [53]
Journalism & Media [39]
People & Population [40]
Public [19]
International [34]
South America [54]
Source: DeSmog [55], 11/21/2025
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Trump DHS Makes Major Changes To Report It Ordered On FEMA Reforms: Sources [56]

"A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [37]
Economy & Business [52]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [24]
People & Population [40]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [57], 11/21/2025
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"With US Absent, China Asserts Itself at World’s Biggest Climate Summit" [58]

"On the opening day at COP30, the United Nations’ annual climate summit, the scene was emblematic of a shifting order. With the United States absent, all eyes were on China."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [34]
Asia [59]
Source: Sierra [60], 11/21/2025
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"Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination" [61]

"The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists"

Agriculture [29]
Biodiversity [11]
Economy & Business [52]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [62]
Wildlife [63]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Sierra [64], 11/21/2025
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An Alabama City Council OKs Rezoning for Big Data Center, Dividing Community [65]

"After the Bessemer City Council voted 5-2 to rezone nearly 700 acres of agricultural land for the “hyperscale” server farm, a dissenting council member said city officials who signed non-disclosure agreements weren’t being transparent with citizens."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [40]
Technology [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [66]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 11/21/2025
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Makah Tribe’s Treaty-Protected Whaling Rights Remain Blocked 2+ Decades Later [68]

"Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed another year and a half – because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling."

Biodiversity [11]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [69]
Food [70]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [63]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northwest (OR WA) [71]
Source: ICT [72], 11/21/2025
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India Delays Climate Pledge, Pressures Rich Nations On Funding At COP30 [73]

"India is unlikely to submit its climate pledge before the end of the annual United Nations climate summit, raising questions about how the world’s most populous nation can influence others on confronting climate change. Experts say the delay may be a sign of India’s displeasure with a lack of progress toward funding global climate priorities. However, this can also hurt its ability to lead at the climate talks in Brazil."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [53]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
International [34]
Source: AP [74], 11/20/2025
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"Trump Refused To Send Disaster Aid To Chicago After 2 Devastating Storms" [75]

"President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer, records obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News show."

Climate Change [12]
Consumer [47]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
People & Population [40]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [76]
Source: E&E News [77], 11/20/2025
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