EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Importance [9]

"These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs."

Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Revelator [16], 04/22/2025
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"Trump Admin Reveals Timeline For Approving Resolution Copper Mine" [17]

"The Trump administration gave notice Thursday that it’s advancing Arizona’s Resolution Copper mine, a divisive project that’s opposed by members of Native American tribes who are asking the Supreme Court to intervene." "The Forest Service on Thursday said it intends to advance the contentious Arizona project that some tribal members are asking the Supreme Court to halt."

Biodiversity [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: E&E News [26], 04/21/2025
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Trump Admin Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills [27]

"A federal program that helps low-income households pay for heating and cooling costs is in limbo."

Climate Change [28]
Consumer [29]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 04/21/2025
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"Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders" [34]

"Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing executive orders on environmental issues. One order, they say, would target the tax exempt status of environmental nonprofits, particularly those that do legal work."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 04/21/2025
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"DOJ Questions Science Journal About Bias, Triggering Free-Speech Concerns" [37]

"Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week to a scientific journal focused on diseases and medicine related to the chest, asking about its editorial policies."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [39], 04/21/2025
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"EPA Withholds Layoff, Restructuring Plan" [40]

"EPA rebuffed attempts to make public its initial downsizing and reorganization plan submitted for White House review." "The Phase 1 “Agency RIF and Reorganization Plan,” which was due at the White House on March 13, remains shrouded in secrecy."

Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [41]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [23]
Science [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [42], 04/21/2025
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"Trump’s Tariffs Push ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Into Limbo" [43]

"U.S. oil producers are stuck between President Donald Trump’s policies, benefiting from relaxed environmental regulations but facing weakening oil prices as tariffs weigh on the global economy."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [44], 04/21/2025
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Energy Efficiency Program Killed; Advocates Say Louisianans Will Pay Price [45]

"In a move energy advocates say will increase electric bills for Louisiana residents and allow the state’s utilities to keep earning money for electricity they don’t provide, Louisiana’s energy regulators voted 3-2 Wednesday to scrap plans for an independently operated energy efficiency program more than 14 years in the making."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: Floodlight [47], 04/21/2025
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"Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing" [48]

"President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales."

Biodiversity [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [50]
Wildlife [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [52]
Source: NYTimes [53], 04/18/2025
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Top NIH Researcher On Ultraprocessed Foods Departs, Citing RFK Jr. Censorship [54]

"When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, one group of health researchers was cautiously optimistic that their cause would finally have a champion at the highest levels of government: those focused on food and nutrition."

Agriculture [55]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Food [56]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [38]
Technology [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: CNN [58], 04/18/2025
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"Burgum Halts Work On NY Offshore Wind Project" [59]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum halted construction of a major offshore wind farm off New York on Wednesday, in a marked escalation of President Donald Trump’s fight against offshore wind."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Technology [57]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [60]
Source: E&E News [61], 04/18/2025
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"Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Disbursement Of Contested Climate Funds" [62]

"An appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order that enabled the release of contested climate funds."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [63], 04/18/2025
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"CDC Scientist: Texas Measles Outbreak Response Hurt By Funding Cuts" [64]

"A senior scientist overseeing the measles response by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a recent pullback of pandemic funding from states has hurt Texas’s response to its growing outbreak, now linked to 90 percent of cases in the United States."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [65], 04/18/2025
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"US Proposes Looser Interpretation Of Law That Protects Threatened Species" [66]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed a major change to how threatened species are considered in agency actions by removing regulatory language that seeks to prevent their habitats from being degraded."

Agriculture [55]
Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [67]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [13]
Science [38]
Wildlife [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [68], 04/17/2025
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"Weather Service Prepares for ‘Degraded Operations’ Amid Trump Cuts" [69]

"The National Weather Service is preparing for the probability that fewer forecast updates will be fine-tuned by specialists, among other cutbacks, because of “severe shortages” of meteorologists and other employees, according to an internal agency document."

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [70]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [41]
People & Population [22]
Science [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [71], 04/17/2025
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