EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Anxiety Grips Feds As Supreme Court Clears Path For Layoffs" [9]

"Employees at energy and environmental agencies are bracing for deep cuts to their workforces and sweeping restructuring after the Supreme Court toppled a lower court’s injunction that had paused the Trump administration’s plans."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [18], 07/10/2025
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Reined In By Cost And Hostile President, Calif. Ponders Next Clean Air Move [19]

"With 7 of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about affordability and costs."

Air [20]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [22]
Source: CalMatters [23], 07/10/2025
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"Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding. Hunters Are Not Happy." [24]

"The Bird Banding Laboratory has turned duck hunters into citizen scientists. What happens if it is defunded?"

Biodiversity [25]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [29]
Source: NYTimes [30], 07/10/2025
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"Texas Floods Shine Spotlight On Trump’s Weather And Disaster Cuts" [31]

"The deadly Texas floods are drawing renewed scrutiny to Trump administration cuts at the nation’s weather and climate research agencies."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: The Hill [36], 07/09/2025
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"Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change" [37]

"The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [38]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [39], 07/09/2025
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"Trump Wants to Kill a Chemical Safety Board. Chemical Makers Object." [40]

"The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what went wrong."

Chemicals [41]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [44], 07/09/2025
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"Texas Flood Forecasts Were Accurate. It Wasn’t Enough To Save Lives." [45]

"The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early morning flash floods." "The catastrophic floods that struck central Texas on Friday show that accurate weather forecasts alone aren’t enough to save lives."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [46]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: E&E News [47], 07/09/2025
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"In Reversal, Trump Administration Will Defend Biden’s Asbestos Ban" [48]

"The Trump administration says it will uphold a Biden-era ban on the ongoing use of asbestos after previously saying it would reconsider the rule."

Chemicals [41]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [26]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [21]
Technology [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [50], 07/09/2025
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"Tax Credit Cuts In Trump’s Megabill Imperil Two Fully Approved Wind Farms" [51]

"The “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes rollbacks of clean energy incentives that at least two offshore wind projects rely on to pencil out financially, analysts say."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [52]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [43]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Canary Media [53], 07/09/2025
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"First Amendment Advocates Decry Settlement In ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit" [54]

"Press freedom groups and First Amendment advocates slammed Paramount’s $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump, saying the decision emboldened Trump’s attacks against an already-battered news industry."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Politico [55], 07/09/2025
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"Death Toll From Catastrophic Flooding In Texas Surpasses 100 [56]

"The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 on Monday as search-and-rescue teams continued to wade into swollen rivers and use heavy equipment to untangle trees as part of the massive search for missing people."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: AP [57], 07/08/2025
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Trump’s EPA Pulling Back on Promise to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals [58]

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research."

Chemicals [41]
Consumer [59]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [21]
Science [38]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: ProPublica [60], 07/08/2025
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"Trump DOI Weighs New Coal Sales From Public Lands In Montana And Wyoming [61]

"Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S. fossil fuel production."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [52]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [27]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [62]
Source: AP [63], 07/08/2025
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‘Systematically Failed’: Groups' Latest Attempt to Reform UN Climate Talks [64]

"A new statement signed by more than 200 groups focuses on five major changes the coalition believes would mean faster, fairer climate action."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 07/08/2025
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"E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump" [66]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday placed 144 employees on administrative leave and opened an investigation into their decision to sign a letter accusing the Trump administration of politicizing the agency."

Activism [67]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Journalism & Media [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [68], 07/07/2025
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