EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Federal Agents Shove Journalists At NYC Immigration Court, Hospitalizing One [9]

"Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [18], 10/02/2025
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Despite Trump Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online [19]

"Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Infrastructure [22]
Journalism & Media [13]
Science [23]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/02/2025
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"Can A New Fund Give Tropical Forests A Future?" [27]

"Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a $1 billion investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) to support forest conservation this week at a United Nations event in New York."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [29]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Public [16]
International [25]
South America [32]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [33], 10/02/2025
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National Parks Open With Limited Staff. Oil/Gas Permitting Continues Apace [34]

"On Tuesday evening, with the federal government on the brink of a shutdown, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took to social media to tout the agency’s deployment of autonomous lawnmowers on the National Mall and at several other National Park sites."

Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [36], 10/02/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules on Climate Super Pollutants" [37]

"The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to relax a Biden-era rule that requires grocery stores, air-conditioning companies, semiconductor plants and others to sharply and rapidly reduce some powerful greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment."

Chemicals [38]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [40], 10/02/2025
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Appeal Could Ease Spreading of Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways [41]

"In recent years, Pennsylvania regulators have tried to clamp down on roadway spreading of tens of millions of gallons of oil and gas “brines,” high-salt liquids that can be laced with toxic metals and radioactive material. The industry is pushing back."

Chemicals [38]
Consumer [42]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [44]
Pollution [39]
Technology [24]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 10/02/2025
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"NJ Sues Pfizer Over Cancer-Linked Water Contamination" [49]

"New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has sued Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell and several real estate companies over a site in Morris Plains where toxic waste remained from a now-shuttered pharmaceutical plant."

Chemicals [38]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Waste [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 10/02/2025
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Pope Leo Decries Climate Skeptics As He Embraces Francis' Green Legacy [52]

"Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who “ridicule those who speak of global warming,” as he strongly embraced Pope Francis’ environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments to date."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [13]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [39]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [53]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [25]
Source: AP [54], 10/02/2025
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"Shutdown Threatens To Delay Zeldin’s Climate Rule Rollback" [55]

"EPA is trying to complete an agencywide restructuring effort while also weakening marquee regulations in October and November. Now it might have to do that in the midst of a government shutdown."

Chemicals [38]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [56], 10/01/2025
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Virginia Legislation to Manage Data Center Growth Is Stalling [57]

"The state with the most data centers is struggling to enact laws to protect electric customers and limit the energy and environmental impacts of their explosive growth."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [31]
Planning & Growth [58]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 10/01/2025
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"The Chesapeake Bay Program Reaches a Crossroads" [60]

"Facing weakened pollution targets and threats of federal inaction, Maryland and Virginia may have to become the agreement’s enforcers."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [61]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 10/01/2025
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Alaskan Graphite Mine Races Toward Approval Without Required Tribal Consent [63]

"A project in western Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities."

Chemicals [38]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [64]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [65]
Source: Grist [66], 10/01/2025
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"How Big Sugar Pushed Fluoride — New Study Alleges A Century Of Spin" [67]

"The sugar industry and companies that make sweet drinks and foods have spent nearly a century downplaying sugar’s role in health problems and distorting the science around fluoride — and the practice continues today, according to a new study."

Agriculture [68]
Chemicals [38]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [69]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [31]
Science [23]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [70], 10/01/2025
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As Trump Cuts NSF By 56 Percent, Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors [71]

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance — and its push away from science."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [64]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [23]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [25]
Antarctica & Arctic [72]
Source: Inside Climate News [73], 10/01/2025
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Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Admin Aims to Rekindle US Coal Industry [74]

"The administration is opening millions of additional acres of public land to mining while slashing royalty rates and environmental regulations for coal. Environmentalists warn of skyrocketing costs and threats to land, water and air."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [39]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [75], 09/30/2025
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