EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Trump Admin Approves $1.6B In Financing For AEP Transmission Project" [9]

"In a rare example of continuity on energy policy, Trump’s DOE finalized the Biden-era loan to upgrade 5,000 miles of power lines across the Midwest."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Canary Media [15], 10/17/2025
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"Ohio To Fast-Track Energy At Former Coal Mines And Brownfields" [16]

"A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Waste [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Source: Canary Media [24], 10/17/2025
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"A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone" [25]

"Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [26]
Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: WIRED [29], 10/16/2025
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"Court Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Layoff Plans" [30]

"A federal judge in California has temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the government shutdown as the basis for layoffs at EPA, the Energy Department and other agencies."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [31]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [32], 10/16/2025
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"Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant" [33]

"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
People & Population [28]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [37]
Source: NYTimes [38], 10/16/2025
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"Texas County Sues Trump Admin Over Canceled Solar Grants" [39]

"A Texas county is suing EPA over the agency’s cancellation of nearly $250 million in solar energy grants." "The lawsuit says the Trump administration unlawfully revoked funding for low-income communities to access clean, affordable energy."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Technology [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: E&E News [42], 10/16/2025
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"Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Forever Chemicals In Cookware" [43]

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of “forever chemicals” in cookware and other products in California."

Chemicals [44]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [45]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [21]
Technology [40]
Public [13]
California [46]
Source: The Hill [47], 10/16/2025
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Shutdown Will Deepen Hunger In America As Trump Ag Dept. Stops Tracking It [48]

"Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout."

Agriculture [49]
Consumer [50]
Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [45]
Government [31]
People & Population [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist [51], 10/15/2025
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"Nations Meet To Consider Regulations To Drive A Green Transition In Shipping" [52]

"The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Transportation [53]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [54]
Source: AP [55], 10/15/2025
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"Saudi-Owned Corporate Farms Are Draining Arizona’s Desert Dry" [56]

"Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells."

Agriculture [49]
Climate Change [17]
Consumer [50]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [28]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Middle East [57]
Source: Sentient [58], 10/15/2025
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AZ Hopi Planned To Connect 600 Homes To Electricity, But Funding Was Cut [59]

"For as long as 55-year-old Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma has been alive, high-voltage power lines have cut across Hopi lands in northeast Arizona, carrying vast amounts of power long distances throughout the Southwest. But residents of the Hopi Reservation have never been connected to that grid."

Consumer [50]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
People & Population [28]
Technology [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: NPR [60], 10/15/2025
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"‘Dismal’ Health Of World’s Forests Is Threat To Humanity, Report Warns" [61]

"Global forest health has plunged to “dismal” levels and threatens the wellbeing of humanity, warns a damning report that highlights how financial systems are pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to reduce destruction."

Agriculture [49]
Biodiversity [62]
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [63]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [64]
Wildlife [65]
Public [13]
International [54]
Source: Guardian [66], 10/15/2025
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Booming Data Centers Pose Big Energy And Environmental Risks [67]

"Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and residents weren't having it."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Pollution [21]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NPR [68], 10/15/2025
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"Judge Orders Halt To DHS Agents’ Targeting Of Journalists In Chicago" [69]

"A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security from using riot control weapons against journalists covering protests and immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area."

Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [31]
Journalism & Media [70]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Military [71]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [54]
Source: Washington Post [72], 10/14/2025
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US Threatens Visa Curbs, Sanctions For Nations That Back IMO Emissions Plan [73]

"The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Transportation [53]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [54]
Source: Reuters [74], 10/14/2025
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