EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card Amid Persistent Challenges [9]

"The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution limit restoration efforts."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 06/16/2025
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Trump Cuts EPA Grants to Address Health Risks on Hopi and Navajo Reservations [21]

"Red Feather, which works to improve housing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, is just one of hundreds of groups that have had grants meant to help disadvantaged communities terminated by the Trump administration."

Consumer [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 06/16/2025
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UN Ocean Summit Ends With Boost For Marine Conservation, Not Climate [31]

"The UN Ocean Conference in the southern French city of Nice concludes this Friday with countries taking steps towards marine protection and declaring a battle over deep sea-mining, but slammed for leaving fossil fuels off the agenda – the key driver of ocean warming. Nations hoping for new financial pledges to help with battling rising sea levels and overfishing were also left disappointed."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [14]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
International [32]
Source: AFP [33], 06/16/2025
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Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff [34]

"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Science [38]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NPR [39], 06/16/2025
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"Hundreds Of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated" [40]

"More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency received notices Wednesday that they are being reinstated, according to a union representing the workers."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [41]
Journalism & Media [37]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: AP [42], 06/16/2025
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Researcher Resigns Citing Tulane Censorship On Pollution Racial Disparity [43]

"A Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."

Chemicals [44]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [16]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: AP [46], 06/16/2025
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"On Ireland’s Peat Bogs: Climate Action Clashes With Tradition – In Pictures" [47]

"Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations."

Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne for Reuters June 15, 2025. [48]

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [15]
Planning & Growth [49]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Europe [50]
Source: Reuters [48], 06/16/2025
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"California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air" [51]

"The state’s latest lawsuit charges the administration with illegally targeting its authority to set tougher vehicle-emission standards. Ten attorneys general from states that follow those rules joined the suit."

Air [52]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 06/13/2025
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"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035" [56]

"In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 06/13/2025
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EPA Just Delayed Reporting Safety Data On 16 Toxic Chemicals. What To Know. [58]

"The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride."

Chemicals [44]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [59]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [60], 06/13/2025
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"High Seas Treaty Gains Momentum As 18 New Countries Pledge Support" [61]

"Eighteen countries ratified the High Seas Treaty on Monday, bringing the total to 49 — just 11 short of the 60 needed for the ocean agreement to enter into force. The surge in support, occurring during the U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice, France, adds momentum to what could become a historic shift in how the world governs the open ocean."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [14]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [15]
Transportation [53]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
International [32]
Source: AP [62], 06/13/2025
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"Ahead of UN Climate Talks, Brazil Fast-Tracks Oil And Highway Projects" [63]

"Months before hosting the U.N.'s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s lofty environmental rhetoric and show widening divisions within his cabinet."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [64]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [15]
Transportation [53]
Public [18]
International [32]
South America [65]
Source: AP [66], 06/13/2025
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Analysis: 10 Ways That Trump’s Tax Bill Would Undermine His Energy Promises [67]

"President Donald Trump has promised to reduce gas prices, improve energy security, create domestic manufacturing jobs, boost the economy, and ensure that Americans breathe the cleanest air. But by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, Congress’ big new budget bill would undermine all of these objectives – and more."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [22]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [59]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 06/13/2025
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"RFK Jr. Picks New Members Of Influential Vaccine Committee After Purge" [69]

"Kennedy said the picks will demand “definitive safety and efficacy data” for vaccine recommendations. His choices include at least three critics of mRNA coronavirus vaccines."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [70]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [71], 06/13/2025
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"Hundreds Of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated" [72]

"More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency received notices Wednesday that they are being reinstated, according to a union representing the workers."

Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [41]
Health [70]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: AP [42], 06/13/2025
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