EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Trump Narrows Scope Of Safety Reviews For Some Chemicals" [9]

"The Trump administration is proposing to narrow the scope of safety reviews of chemicals that are already out on the market, it said Monday."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [18], 09/24/2025
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As UN Climate Talks Loom In Brazil, Many Fear They Can’t Afford To Attend [19]

"Pooja Tilvawala knows it’s a gamble to use more than $46,000 of her own savings to help young people get to the United Nations climate summit in Brazil. But she thinks it’s a necessary one."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: AP [24], 09/24/2025
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"UN Chief Warns 1.5C Warming Goal At Risk Of 'Collapsing'" [25]

"UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP Friday that efforts to cap climate warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial level are failing, as the UN prepared to host a climate week event alongside its annual diplomatic gathering."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [15]
Science [27]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: AFP [28], 09/23/2025
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"Judge Says Work on Wind Farm Off Rhode Island Can Proceed, for Now" [29]

"A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the Trump administration."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [32], 09/23/2025
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Trump Links Autism To Acetaminophen, Despite Decades Of Evidence It’s Safe [33]

"President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased risk of autism,” despite decades of evidence that it’s safe."

Consumer [34]
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Science [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: CNN [35], 09/23/2025
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Senate Dems Blame Trump Assault on Clean Energy for High Electricity Prices [36]

"With U.S. households paying 10 percent more per kilowatt hour for electricity than they did at the start of this year, Senate Democrats sought Monday to tie the increasing pain for consumers to the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of clean energy policy."

Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 09/23/2025
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"Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide" [39]

"The Department of Defense has quietly delayed its cleanup of harmful “forever chemicals” at nearly 140 military installations across the country, according to a list of sites analyzed by The New York Times." "The new timeline could slow cleanup in some communities by nearly a decade. The chemicals, widely used in the military, are linked to cancers and other health risks."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [40]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [41], 09/23/2025
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"Trump Ends Annual Report On U.S. Hunger Amid Rising Food Insecurity" [42]

"The Trump administration is ending a decades-long effort to track food security at a time when many Americans are struggling to get proper nutrition or enough to eat."

Agriculture [43]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [44]
Journalism & Media [45]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [46], 09/23/2025
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Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts [47]

"A Chinese mining company is denying that its toxic waste spill, one of this year’s worst environmental disasters, had a “significant impact” on the environment or local communities."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [48]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [49]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
Africa [50]
Asia [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 09/23/2025
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Pennsylvania’s Gov. Threatens to Pull State Out of the Region’s Power Grid [53]

"Ninety-eight years ago, the nation’s largest power grid operator was founded here by utilities serving Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro threatened to pull his state out of the coalition."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [34]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Technology [54]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [55]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 09/23/2025
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"EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say" [58]

"Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Science [27]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [59], 09/22/2025
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"National Parks Remove Signs About Climate, Slavery And Japanese Detention" [60]

"The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [61]
Government [62]
Journalism & Media [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [49]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [63], 09/22/2025
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Pentagon Requires Journos To Pledge Only To Report Released Information [64]

"The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including unclassified information. Journalists who don’t abide by the policy risk losing credentials that provide access to the Pentagon, under a 17-page memo distributed Friday that steps up media restrictions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump."

Environmental Politics [12]
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Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [65], 09/22/2025
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"Dems Float Dueling CR With Energy, Environment Language" [66]

"Republicans rejected Democrats’ counteroffer on government funding before even seeing it."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [62]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [67], 09/22/2025
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"UN Treaty To Protect Oceans To Take Effect After Clinching Ratification [68]

"A UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the high seas was struck Friday after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law."

Biodiversity [69]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [70]
Government [62]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [49]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: France 24 [71], 09/22/2025
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