EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Major Livestock and Dairy Firms Make Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping [9]

"A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 04/24/2026
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Gas-Fired Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations [21]

"A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [27], 04/24/2026
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Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Dept. Budget Irk Senate Dems [28]

"Although the department’s overall budget will increase in 2027, the amounts dedicated to environmental management, research and renewable energy infrastructure face significant hits."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 04/24/2026
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Waste-To-Energy Plant Proposed For Vuda Point In Fiji Sparks Fierce Backlash [30]

"A proposed waste-to-energy facility in Fiji has been labelled as "waste colonialism" by opponents of the plant. The $900 million venture, backed by Australian billionaire Ian Malouf, would burn hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year at a site built near a popular tourist destination."

Air [31]
Chemicals [32]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Waste [35]
Public [17]
Australia & Oceania [36]
Source: Australian ABC [37], 04/24/2026
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"Republicans Had an Earth Day Plan to Limit Species Protections. It Flopped." [38]

"House Republicans had big plans for Earth Day this year: They would pass a bill to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. It didn’t work out that way."

Biodiversity [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [42], 04/24/2026
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"Alarm As Acting CDC Director Delays Report Showing Covid Vaccine Benefits" [43]

"A Trump administration appointee has delayed publication of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that shows benefits related to the Covid vaccine, leading to concerns that the administration is engaging in behind-the-scenes tactics to undermine vaccines."

Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [46]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Science [48]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [49], 04/23/2026
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Nearly Half Of US Kids Breathe Unhealthy Air: Report. Here's Best, Worst [50]

"For 152 million Americans, including nearly half of the nation's children and teens, just breathing air in the places they live can be harmful. According to the American Lung Association's latest State of the Air report, 44% of the U.S. population reside in areas with unhealthy levels of pollution, including 33 million who are younger than 18."

Air [31]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: CBS News [51], 04/23/2026
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"Trump Vets Exit EPA’s Press Office" [52]

"Two veteran officials from the first Trump administration — Michael Abboud and Molly Vaseliou — have left EPA’s Office of External Affairs."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [53]
Journalism & Media [47]
People & Population [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [54], 04/23/2026
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"Trump Invokes War Powers To Juice Fossil Energy, Grid" [55]

"President Donald Trump invoked the Cold War-era Defense Production Act on Monday to shore up federal funding for a host of energy projects — involving oil, gas, coal and the grid — as the White House moved to buffer climbing electricity and fuel costs."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [53]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [56]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [57], 04/23/2026
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"EPA Adds More Pesticide Industry Reps to Science Board" [58]

"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin appointed four chemical industry representatives to the agency’s Science Advisory Board last week, including employees of pesticide companies and of a leading manufacturer of the forever chemicals that now contaminate U.S. farm soils, waterways, and food."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [32]
Consumer [44]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [16]
Science [48]
Technology [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [59], 04/23/2026
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"Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Actions Targeting Wind And Solar" [60]

"A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday sided with renewable energy developers in their challenge to the Trump administration’s actions targeting wind and solar projects, blocking the administration from enforcing decisions that advocates say have slowed the development of projects across the country."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [61], 04/22/2026
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"Leaked Memos Show Supreme Court Ignored Climate Dangers In Obama Regs Fight" [62]

"When the Supreme Court blocked President Barack Obama’s signature climate regulation a decade ago, conservative justices were worried about the cost to industry, according to private memos reported by The New York Times."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [63]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [64], 04/22/2026
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"Interview: Christopher Borgert on an Infamous Glyphosate Paper" [65]

"The pharmacologist gathered more than 60 researchers to push back on the retraction of a Monsanto-linked research paper."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [16]
Science [48]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Undark [66], 04/22/2026
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Tests of Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Wastewater Discharges Find Toxic Metals [67]

"After Texas regulators said Tesla’s lithium refinery near Corpus Christi wasn’t violating its permits by discharging what local officials reported as black wastewater into a drainage ditch, independent water testing there this month found two toxic metals and other contaminants."

Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [16]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 04/22/2026
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"Moderna Launches mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine Trial After HHS Cancels Funding" [70]

"The Department of Health and Human Services had canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding previously committed to help develop mRNA vaccines."

"Moderna is launching a large-scale clinical trial of a shot to combat bird flu in humans after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department had canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding previously committed to aid in vaccine development.
Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [39]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [53]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [34]
Science [48]
Technology [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [71], 04/22/2026
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