EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Can Bipartisan Support in Congress Save NOAA From White House Cuts?" [9]

"Both House and Senate lawmakers have advanced bills rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate climate research at the weather agency."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 09/15/2025
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Dwindling Colorado River Can’t Wait For States To Cut Water Use, Experts Say [24]

"A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado River. The river’s major reservoirs are less than one-third full, and another dry winter would push reservoirs toward critically low levels."

Agriculture [25]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [26]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [28]
Planning & Growth [29]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: LA Times [30], 09/15/2025
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As Extreme Weather Increases Flooding on Farms, Federal Support Evaporates [31]

"USDA’s staffing cuts, scuttled conservation programs, and misdirected crop insurance are hitting farmers hard."

Agriculture [25]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [33]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [28]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Civil Eats [34], 09/15/2025
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How Tribal Radio Stations Are Preparing For A Future Without The CPB [35]

"In the most remote parts of Alaska, staying in touch can involve a bit more effort than sending a text. Cell service is spotty, highways are nonexistent, and the postal service remains a vital lifeline, delivering supplies and mail by plane. But for anyone who wants to broadcast a different kind of message — a reminder to pick up milk, for example, or birthday wishes — there’s always the Muktuk Telegram."

Consumer [26]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [27]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [28]
Technology [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [38]
Source: Nieman Lab [39], 09/15/2025
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"Riding the High From Data Centers, the Grid Cannot Kick Its Gas Habit" [40]

"Big Tech’s AI frenzy is pressing up electricity demand around the country. The power grid is stuck in natural gas-fuelled inertia, slow to bring new clean energy projects online and leaving consumers on the hook."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Technology [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 09/15/2025
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"RFK Jr. Wants More Air Pollution Research, But EPA Shut Down Its Lab" [43]

"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 [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [44]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [45], 09/12/2025
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"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less." [46]

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

Agriculture [25]
Consumer [26]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [33]
Government [47]
People & Population [28]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Capital & Main [48], 09/12/2025
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"Johnson Backs Virginia Wind Project In Break With Trump" [49]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [50]
Source: E&E News [51], 09/12/2025
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"House Republicans Add To Support For Maintaining NIH Budget In 2026" [52]

"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 [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [53]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Science [54], 09/12/2025
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"Building Toward Disaster: Growth Collides With Rising Seas In Charleston" [55]

"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 [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [27]
People & Population [28]
Planning & Growth [29]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: Floodlight [57], 09/12/2025
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"Public Lands Were Made Free to All" [58]

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

Biodiversity [32]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [59]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Sierra [60], 09/12/2025
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Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil [61]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [44]
Public [21]
California [62]
Source: CalMatters [63], 09/12/2025
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"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says" [64]

"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 [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [65]
Pollution [44]
Waste [66]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Northwest (OR WA) [67]
Source: E&E News [68], 09/12/2025
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Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land [69]

"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 [32]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [70]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [59]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: AP [71], 09/11/2025
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Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill [72]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [44]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: WIRED [73], 09/11/2025
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