EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"EPA Chief Praises Group For Opposing Government Action On Climate Change" [9]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin delivered the keynote speech at a Wednesday meeting of the Heartland Institute, a group that challenges the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change’s harmful impacts and the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions that cause it."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 04/09/2026
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Endangered Salmon Returned To Calif. Far North — Then The Money Dried Up [21]

"Newsom promised to help a Native tribe restore sacred salmon to their ancestral river. Now California is ending the funding. The fish made it back to their ancestral waters for the first time in 80 years — so why is California walking away now?"

Biodiversity [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
People & Population [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [18]
California [28]
Source: CalMatters [29], 04/09/2026
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"Renewable Developers Locked Out Of FWS Online Tool" [30]

"Since last summer, developers are no longer allowed to use a government website that helps with a basic preliminary task for projects: identifying what endangered species are found in a particular area."

Biodiversity [22]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Technology [32]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [34], 04/09/2026
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"Suspect in Hacking of Climate Activists Is Extradited to New York" [35]

"Prosecutors say Amit Forlit ran a global hacking operation on behalf of a Washington lobbying group that aimed to thwart environmental lawsuits against oil companies."

Activism [36]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [37], 04/08/2026
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"States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability" [38]

"Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change. Fifteen laws have either been passed or are currently being debated in 11 states. Together, they threaten to remove long-standing tools for the public to hold corporations accountable."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: ProPublica [39], 04/08/2026
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"Nuclear Energy Regulators Roll Back Security Drill Requirements" [40]

"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has voted to no longer lead security drills at power plants, instead allowing companies to lead their own drills in the coming years."

Disasters [41]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [42]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [43]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [44], 04/08/2026
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"Interior Department Offering Another Round Of Staff Buyouts" [45]

"The Interior Department is offering its staff another round of buyouts and early retirements in an effort to slim down the federal department that’s in charge of the nation’s natural resources."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [46]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [27]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [48], 04/08/2026
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Trump Re-Ups Push To Kill Low-Income Heating Assistance Program LIHEAP [49]

"President Trump is once again proposing to eliminate a program that helps low-income people heat and cool their homes."

Consumer [50]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [51], 04/08/2026
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Solar Was Poised To Help Puerto Ricans Survive Blackouts — But Trump Axed It [52]

"María Pérez lost power for about three months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017. Her home in Salinas, on the island’s southern coast, sits near a river. As the hurricane knocked out the island’s grid and sent rainwaters surging down from the mountains, Perez’s house flooded with a swirling mix of muddy water and animal feces, rising 3 feet high and warping the hallways. For the next three months, she went without power as she cleaned out the home and began the long process of rebuilding."

Consumer [50]
Disasters [41]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [46]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Grist [54], 04/08/2026
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"What Does $164M Buy Big Oil? Inupiat Land And A Broken Promise." [55]

"A federal auction undid a hard-won agreement to protect Alaska's North Slope. The Iñupiat community that fought for it is still waiting to be heard."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [16]
Transportation [56]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [57]
Source: Grist [58], 04/08/2026
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"Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk" [59]

"Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations."

Biodiversity [22]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [60]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Forests [61]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [16]
Science [62]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [63], 04/07/2026
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"Yes, You Can Make Friends With Trees. Here’s Why It’s A Good Idea." [64]

"RJ Laverne’s childhood home in Detroit had a big elm out front. In fact, the whole neighborhood was lined with them: great, graceful trees whose branches spread across the street to create a shady canopy. Elms were so widely planted in cities and suburbs in the 19th and 20th centuries that they became known as the “Main Street tree.” Then, in the 1930s, Dutch elm disease began to ravage them, and by 1989, most of America’s 77 million mature elms were dead."

Activism [36]
Biodiversity [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [60]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Forests [61]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [26]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [65]
Source: Washington Post [66], 04/07/2026
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"EPA Takes Early Step In Methane Rule Rollback" [67]

"The Trump administration undertook an early step Monday in what is expected to be a significant rollback of a Biden-era rule restricting methane emissions from oil and gas production."

Chemicals [68]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [32]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [69], 04/07/2026
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Trump Threatens To Destroy Iran’s Desalination Plants: Mideast Impacts [70]

"U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country’s desalination plants. Such a move — and Iran’s possible targeting of the plants of its Gulf Arab neighbors — could have devastating impacts across the water-starved Middle East."

Consumer [50]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [46]
Infrastructure [47]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [18]
Middle East [71]
Source: AP [72], 04/07/2026
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Probe Reveals Faults Of Certification For US Gas Sites' Methane Emissions [73]

"A rapidly expanding certification scheme run by a UK nonprofit and used by major gas companies may be understating the actual methane emissions it purports to certify, a Guardian investigation has found."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [60]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [32]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [65]
Source: Guardian [74], 04/07/2026
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