EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Judge Cuts Greenpeace Pipeline Protest Penalty In Half to $345 Million [9]

"A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [24]
Source: AP [25], 10/31/2025
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Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Falls 11% Even As Fires Surge To Record [26]

"Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged to record levels amid a severe drought."

Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [28]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
International [29]
South America [30]
Source: AP [31], 10/31/2025
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Lobster Population Falls Off New England. Regulators Declare Overfishing. [32]

"A new report says America’s lobsters, which have been in decline since 2018, are now being overfished off New England."

Biodiversity [33]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Natural Resources [18]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: AP [37], 10/31/2025
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Corps Approves Enbridge Pipeline Reroute Around Wisconsin Reservation [38]

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to reroute an aging oil pipeline around a northern Wisconsin tribal reservation."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [19]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: AP [41], 10/31/2025
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"Trump Fossil Fuel Approvals Keep Coming Despite Government Shutdown" [42]

"The government shutdown isn’t stopping the Trump administration from advancing its policy priorities, especially when it comes to fossil fuels." "Between Oct. 1 and Wednesday, the bureau approved 474 permits to drill on public lands."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [43]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Source: The Hill [44], 10/31/2025
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"Energy Prices Seize Spotlight In Virginia, New Jersey Races" [45]

"Closely watched gubernatorial campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey are serving as testing grounds for how candidates will use surging electricity prices to their advantage in next year’s midterm elections."

Consumer [46]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
People & Population [19]
Technology [47]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Source: E&E News [48], 10/30/2025
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"EPA Accused Of Misleading Public About Ongoing Production Of Harmful PFAS" [49]

"Federal regulators are falsely claiming that production of a dangerous PFAS chemical has been phased out in the US, according to a complaint filed this week by an environmental watchdog group alleging the statement is untrue since the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consistently finds the chemical and other PFAS in fluorinated plastic containers."

Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [51]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Source: The New Lede [52], 10/30/2025
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"Judge Orders New York To Follow Through On Its Climate Law" [53]

"The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: New York Focus [54], 10/30/2025
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Why Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Keep Ending up in Philadelphia Waters [55]

"Some 280 years after a river-swimming Benjamin Franklin petitioned to curb water pollution here, the city is still struggling to meet the challenge, according to water advocates who assembled along the banks of one of its two main rivers on Monday."

Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 10/30/2025
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"100 Countries Stall On Climate Targets Ahead Of COP30" [58]

"Dozens of nations have failed to strengthen their climate targets — a requirement of the Paris Agreement — as they race toward global negotiations next month with planet-warming pollution on the rise."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
International [29]
Source: E&E News [59], 10/29/2025
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Trump Fires Arts Commission Expected To Review His Construction Projects [60]

"The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Donald Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington."

Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [61]
Government [43]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: Washington Post [62], 10/29/2025
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"Park Air Monitoring Networks Suffer Under Shutdown, Trump Cuts" [63]

"The complex web of air monitoring networks in the nation’s national parks is bogged down under the government shutdown, widening weak spots in an already underfunded and overstretched network."

Air [64]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [65], 10/29/2025
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"The Amazon Rainforest's Fossil Fuel Rush" [66]

"South America's vulnerable Amazon rainforest region is a rising frontier for oil and gas drilling."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [28]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
South America [30]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [67], 10/29/2025
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"Critics Decry Company Created To Rush Power To Indiana Data Centers" [68]

"Northern Indiana Public Service Co. says the spinoff is needed to meet surging power demand. Others say it’s an excuse to bypass regulations that protect consumers."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Technology [47]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [35]
Source: Canary Media [69], 10/29/2025
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EPA Pushes Asheboro, N.C., To Control Toxic Discharges Into Drinking Supply [70]

"The EPA wants the city of 28,000 to rein in an industrial solvent, 1,4-Dioxane, from its wastewater discharges. So far, Asheboro has refused."

Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [71]
Source: Inside Climate News [72], 10/29/2025
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