EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Interior Increases Targets For Layoffs" [9]

"The Interior Department is expanding its targets for layoffs to include more than 1,400 “competitive areas” — an increase of hundreds of categories since its first notice this spring — including new units within the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and Office of the Secretary, according to an internal document."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 07/28/2025
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Committee Moves Bayer And Pesticide Makers Closer To Protections From Suits [21]

"A group of US lawmakers failed on Tuesday to beat back a provision in a congressional appropriations bill that would help protect pesticide makers from being sued and could hinder state efforts to warn about risks of pesticide products."

Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [23]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [28], 07/28/2025
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Climate Advocates Outraged At Trump Admin Plans To Fast-Track AI Sector [29]

"The Trump administration has unveiled plans to speed the development of the highly polluting artificial intelligence sector, sparking outrage from climate advocates. Rolled out on Wednesday, the 28-page scheme pledges to remove so-called “bureaucratic red tape” and streamline permitting for datacenters, semiconductor manufacturing facilities and fossil fuel infrastructure."

Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Technology [34]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [35], 07/28/2025
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"Controversial Interior Department Aide From DOGE to Leave Agency" [36]

"Tyler Hassen, a former Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team who was given sweeping powers to overhaul the Department of the Interior, is leaving the agency, he confirmed on Friday."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [37], 07/28/2025
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"Denied Federal Flood Relief, A Maryland Town Is Left On Its Own" [38]

"The residents of Westernport, Maryland, overwhelmingly voted for Trump. But after FEMA denied its aid request, the town feels like the president has turned his back on them."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [39]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [40], 07/28/2025
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Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for COP30 [41]

"The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution."

Climate Change [30]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
People & Population [15]
Public [18]
International [42]
South America [43]
Source: NYTimes [44], 07/28/2025
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US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border [45]

"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [46]
Mexico [47]
Source: AP [48], 07/25/2025
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Senate Committee Advances Bipartisan Interior-Environment Spending Bill [49]

"Senate appropriators on Thursday advanced legislation funding environment and natural resource agencies targeted for deep budget cuts by the Trump administration." "The bill’s spending would be higher than a House Republican proposal and the Trump administration’s budget request."

Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [50], 07/25/2025
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‘Total Infiltration’: How Plastics Industry Swamped Global Treaty Talks [51]

"Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet"

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [24]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Food [53]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [18]
International [42]
Source: Guardian [54], 07/25/2025
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Trump Team Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing [55]

"Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?"

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [56]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Public Domain [57], 07/25/2025
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"E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change" [58]

"The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan."

Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [59]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [27]
Science [60]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [61], 07/24/2025
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"Courts Banned This Herbicide Twice. The EPA Wants To Bring It Back." [62]

"The EPA announced Wednesday its plan to re-register dicamba, a herbicide widely used on soybean and cotton farms that has been banned twice by federal courts."

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [63], 07/24/2025
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"White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan To Remake Grid" [64]

"The White House released a sweeping action plan Wednesday to boost development of artificial intelligence, a move that could influence the build-out of the grid and the electricity mix for decades."

Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [65], 07/24/2025
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"Gutting Chemical Safety Board Endangers Millions Of Americans, Groups Warn" [66]

"A coalition of environmental, labor and public safety groups are calling on US lawmakers to reject the Trump administration’s move to eliminate a federal unit that investigates chemical accidents, citing risks to more than 170 million people who lives in zones at risk for such events."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [27]
Technology [34]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [67], 07/24/2025
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Activists Opposing Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show [68]

"Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have for years worked alongside private mine security to surveil the largely peaceful protesters who oppose the mine, called Thacker Pass, according to more than 2,000 pages of internal law enforcement communications reviewed by ProPublica."

Activism [69]
Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: ProPublica [70], 07/24/2025
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