EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"RFK Jr. Wants More Air Pollution Research, But EPA Shut Down Its Lab" [9]

"Researching air quality is key to improving kids’ health, according to a new strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission unveiled Tuesday by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. There’s just one problem: EPA, under Zeldin’s leadership, has shuttered the preeminent laboratory in the country studying air pollution’s impact on people."

Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Technology [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 09/12/2025
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"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less." [21]

"Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn."

Agriculture [22]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [24]
Government [25]
People & Population [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Capital & Main [26], 09/12/2025
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"Johnson Backs Virginia Wind Project In Break With Trump" [27]

"House Speaker Mike Johnson is going to bat for an offshore wind project located off Virginia Beach at a time when the Trump administration has halted the construction of similar projects and the president himself has warned that support for the industry could cost politicians their careers."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: E&E News [35], 09/12/2025
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"House Republicans Add To Support For Maintaining NIH Budget In 2026" [36]

"Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A bill released today would give the agency a base budget of about $47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, essentially the same level as this year."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [37]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Science [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Science [38], 09/12/2025
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"Building Toward Disaster: Growth Collides With Rising Seas In Charleston" [39]

"A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be forced to move?"

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
People & Population [14]
Planning & Growth [40]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: Floodlight [42], 09/12/2025
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"Public Lands Were Made Free to All" [43]

"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."

Biodiversity [44]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Sierra [46], 09/12/2025
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Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil [47]

"California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
California [48]
Source: CalMatters [49], 09/12/2025
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"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says" [50]

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [51]
Pollution [15]
Waste [52]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [53]
Source: E&E News [54], 09/12/2025
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Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land [55]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."

Biodiversity [44]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [56]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [57], 09/11/2025
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Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill [58]

"A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [59]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: WIRED [60], 09/11/2025
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Defense Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On Pentagon’s Use Of Toxic PFAS [61]

"Provisions in the House and Senate annual Defense authorization bills reduce restrictions on the Pentagon’s use of “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [62]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Military [63]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [64], 09/11/2025
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US Bans on some Fish Imports Could Help Save Marine Mammals Worldwide: Experts [65]

"The Trump administration set strict import bans on fisheries in more than 40 nations that do not meet standards for conserving marine mammals like whales and dolphins."

Biodiversity [44]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [66]
Natural Resources [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Wildlife [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [67]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 09/11/2025
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MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health [69]

"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [62]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [59]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [24]
Health [37]
People & Population [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [70], 09/11/2025
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"AP Finds Major Disaster Declarations Are Taking Longer Under Trump" [71]

"Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found."

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [31]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [72], 09/10/2025
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"Budget Shortfalls Put Mass Transit At Risk Across US" [73]

"Transit agencies have been warning for years that the twin problems of diminished ridership and rising costs could send entire public transportation systems into a tailspin. Now, some worry that day has come."

Climate Change [28]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [59]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [74]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [75], 09/10/2025
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