EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Pesticide Use And Cancer Risk Rise Together Across America’s Heartland" [9]

"America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Investgate Midwest [19], 02/20/2026
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"Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits" [20]

"President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Technology [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [23], 02/20/2026
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‘Safe’ BPA Substitutes Tied To Infertility, Fetal Harm, Review Finds [24]

"Chemicals increasingly used to replace the toxic plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health through many of the same biological mechanisms, according to a narrative review of human, animal and laboratory studies."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: U.S. Right to Know [27], 02/20/2026
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"U.S. Tells International Energy Agency to Drop Its Focus on Climate Change" [28]

"The Trump administration this week threatened to pull the United States out of the world’s leading energy agency unless it abandoned its focus on tackling climate change."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [31], 02/20/2026
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"Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend" [32]

"Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [34]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mexico [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 02/20/2026
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Trump Climate Rollback Likely To Hit Poor, Minority Areas Hardest: Experts [39]

"In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted and the cancer rates so high it is known as Cancer Alley."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [40], 02/20/2026
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NIH’s Bhattacharya Will Also Run CDC While Trump Seeks Permanent Director [41]

"National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also temporarily become acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration official said Wednesday."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [21]
Health [42]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [43], 02/19/2026
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"Trump Taps Ex-RFK Jr. Aide To Lead National Science Foundation" [44]

"President Donald Trump plans to nominate a former senior aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as director of the National Science Foundation."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [21]
Science [26]
Technology [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [45], 02/19/2026
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"Environmental Protest Group Says FBI Is Investigating It For Terrorism" [46]

"Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said on Wednesday it was under federal US investigation and that some of its members had been visited by FBI agents, including from the agency’s taskforce on extremism, in the last year."

Activism [47]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [49], 02/19/2026
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"How The NRC Lost Its Independence" [50]

"One year ago, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was an independent agency, setting safety standards without White House interference. Those days are over."

Energy & Fuel [51]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [52]
Technology [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [53], 02/19/2026
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"FDA Reverses Course And Will Review Moderna’s mRNA-Based Flu Shot" [54]

"The Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and agreed to review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine under a revised approach, company and federal officials said Wednesday."

Consumer [25]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [42]
People & Population [15]
Science [26]
Technology [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [56], 02/19/2026
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"Groups Sue Over Trump Effort To ‘Erase’ History, Science In National Parks" [57]

"A coalition of scientific, preservation and historical groups on Tuesday sued the Trump administration, arguing that the removal of information about civil rights, climate change and other topics at multiple national parks amounts to illegal censorship."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [58]
Government [21]
Journalism & Media [59]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [34]
People & Population [15]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [60]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [61], 02/18/2026
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"Bayer Proposes $7.25 Billion Class Action Settlement In Roundup Litigation" [62]

"In a bold bid to put costly US Roundup litigation behind it, Bayer on Tuesday announced a $7.25 billion proposed class action settlement for users of its glyphosate-based weed killing products who have cancer now or develop cancer in the next several years, with average awards ranging from $10,000 to $165,000."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [63], 02/18/2026
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Overshadowed by PFAS, PCBs Remain A Toxic Threat To Chesapeake Waters [64]

"Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, haven’t been produced since 1979, after studies found that exposure to them could cause a variety of harmful health effects, including cancer. But they were so widely used before then and so long-lasting that they still impair water quality in much of the tidal Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [65]
Source: Bay Journal [66], 02/18/2026
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"States Push Climate Superfund Bills Despite Trump’s Opposition" [67]

"The legislation would make oil and gas firms pay for climate damages from burning their products. Trump has referred to such laws as 'extortion.'"

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [68]
Energy & Fuel [51]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Canary Media [69], 02/18/2026
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