EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won [9]

"A decades-long battle to transform a Southeast Chicago lakefront property into a public park is starting to bear fruit. But where the new toxic sludge will go has yet to be determined."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Public [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 08/21/2025
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Businesses Face 'Chaos' As EPA Aims To Repeal Its Climate Authority [23]

"The Trump administration's plan to undo a landmark finding that climate pollution threatens public health and welfare poses lots of risks for corporate America."

Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Planning & Growth [17]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: NPR [28], 08/21/2025
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"USDA Limits Funding For Solar, Wind On Farmland" [29]

"The Agriculture Department is curtailing its support for solar and wind energy on farmlands."

Agriculture [30]
Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Technology [33]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The Hill [34], 08/21/2025
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"Interior Deputizes Border Agents To National Park Sites Amid DC Takeover" [35]

"The Interior Department is deputizing federal border agents and sending them to National Park Service sites amid the federal law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Wednesday."

Consumer [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Military [36]
Natural Resources [16]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: The Hill [38], 08/21/2025
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"FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address" [39]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will now require disaster survivors to register for federal aid using an email address—a departure from previous policy where email addresses were optional. The move, FEMA employees tell WIRED, puts people across the US with little to no access to internet services at risk of losing out on crucial federal financial assistance after disasters."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [42]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: WIRED [43], 08/21/2025
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As Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Clouds Of Dangerous Dust Blow Into Boomtowns [44]

"Dozens of dust events probably happen each year across the 120-square-mile playa once covered by the Great Salt Lake. But there are no comprehensive state or federal records of them."

Agriculture [30]
Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [15]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [45]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [46]
Source: Washington Post [47], 08/20/2025
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"Trump Team Readies More Attacks On Mainstream Climate Science" [48]

"The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [49]
Science [50]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [51], 08/20/2025
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"Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn’t Want to Hear It." [52]

"It is lashing out at the world’s leading energy organization for saying oil and gas use could start declining as the world pivots to cleaner alternatives."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [50]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [53]
Source: NYTimes [54], 08/20/2025
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Trump’s Move To Sanitize US History Gets Little Support With Park Visitors [55]

"Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popular"

Environmental Politics [15]
Natural Resources [16]
People & Population [42]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Guardian [56], 08/20/2025
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"Trump Admin Tightens Rules For Renewable Energy Tax Credits" [57]

"Renewable projects have historically been able to qualify for federal tax credits once a developer spent 5 percent of a project’s cost. But that threshold would be scrapped under the new Treasury Department guidance."

Climate Change [24]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Transportation [58]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [59], 08/19/2025
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"Trump Admin Redacts Entire Empire Wind Study" [60]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he halted construction of a wind project off the coast of New York earlier this year because scientists revealed that the Biden administration “rushed approval” of the development based on “flawed science. But Burgum himself won’t reveal what those scientists said — or present the flaws."

Climate Change [24]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Journalism & Media [49]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Water & Oceans [45]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [61]
Source: E&E News [62], 08/19/2025
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"Trump’s Mineral Megadeal Is Bypassing US Laws" [63]

"The Trump administration is quietly taking steps to circumvent federal laws in its quest to bolster U.S. mineral production." "The Pentagon used a little-known legal provision to shield a multibillion-dollar rare earths deal from procurement and contracting laws."

Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [16]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [64], 08/19/2025
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White House Draft Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations [65]

"A highly anticipated White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a draft of the document that was reviewed by The New York Times."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [66]
Health [67]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Science [50]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: NYTimes [68], 08/19/2025
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"The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door" [69]

"L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help from state officials remain unanswered."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
California [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 08/19/2025
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DOE Announces 11 Projects for New Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program [72]

"The agency plans to fast-track these projects through the development process. Nuclear energy experts worry about the feasibility and safety of the plan."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [73]
Technology [33]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [74], 08/18/2025
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