EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

EPA Just Delayed Reporting Safety Data On 16 Toxic Chemicals. What To Know. [9]

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

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 06/13/2025
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"High Seas Treaty Gains Momentum As 18 New Countries Pledge Support" [21]

"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 [22]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [26]
Transportation [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
International [29]
Source: AP [30], 06/13/2025
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"Ahead of UN Climate Talks, Brazil Fast-Tracks Oil And Highway Projects" [31]

"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 [23]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [33]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [26]
Transportation [27]
Public [18]
International [29]
South America [35]
Source: AP [36], 06/13/2025
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Analysis: 10 Ways That Trump’s Tax Bill Would Undermine His Energy Promises [37]

"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 [23]
Consumer [38]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 06/13/2025
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"RFK Jr. Picks New Members Of Influential Vaccine Committee After Purge" [40]

"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 [41]
Science [42]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [43], 06/13/2025
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"Hundreds Of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated" [44]

"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 [45]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [25]
Health [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [47], 06/13/2025
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"In Majority-Black Camp Hill, a Young Mayor Fights for Water" [48]

"An Alabama town is at risk of losing water access after it disputed rate rises and recent charges by a neighboring water board. The mayor says customers are being “bamboozled.”"

Activism [49]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [25]
Infrastructure [34]
People & Population [46]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 06/13/2025
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"EPA Moves To Repeal Limits On Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Power Plants" [53]

"The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide."

Air [54]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [55], 06/12/2025
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EPA Says Power Plant Carbon Emissions Aren’t Dangerous. Scientists Disagree. [56]

The Trump EPA on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution. The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation.

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [42]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [57], 06/12/2025
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"Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the G.O.P. Tax Bill" [58]

"Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Technology [59]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [60], 06/12/2025
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"Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas" [61]

"Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants in Texas in the next few years amid a race to meet enormous electrical demand from energy-hungry industries, according to a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [34]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 06/12/2025
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Phase-Out of FEMA On Course, Trump Says, Raising Worries About Disaster Aid [64]

"The Trump administration will begin dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency later this year, the president announced on Tuesday, setting a tight timeframe for a breakup that many experts warned would likely harm the nation’s ability to respond to disasters."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 06/12/2025
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Whistleblower Who Leaked Plans To Build Golf Courses In Florida Parks Sues [66]

"A former worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in Florida state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit."

Biodiversity [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [26]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: AP [67], 06/12/2025
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"Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales" [68]

"At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference."

Biodiversity [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
International [29]
Australia & Oceania [69]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 06/12/2025
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EPA Drops Complaint vs. Major Trump Donor Over Disinfectant in ICE Facility [71]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities."

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: ProPublica [72], 06/11/2025
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