EJToday: Top Headlines

"New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights" [9]

"The New York Times accused the Pentagon in a lawsuit on Thursday of infringing on the constitutional rights of journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Military [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 12/05/2025
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"US Congress Repeals Biden-Era Limits On Oil And Gas In Alaska Refuge" [17]

"Congressional lawmakers on Thursday voted to repeal a Biden-era policy that limited the amount of land in an Alaska wildlife refuge that could be leased for oil and gas development. The U.S. Senate voted 49-45 to approve a resolution that revokes the Interior Department's 2024 rule governing energy development on the 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [24]
Source: Reuters [25], 12/05/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Leaders Agree on Longer Timeline and Tribal Role in Cleanup [26]

"The revised watershed agreement extends pollution-reduction targets and bets on voluntary measures to achieve cleanup goals that have remained elusive for decades."

Agriculture [27]
Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Food [31]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 12/05/2025
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"The Grid Storage Industry Set A Wild Goal For 2025 — And Then Crushed It" [38]

"In 2017, U.S. grid storage developers promised they could deliver 35 gigawatts by 2025. They beat their target and made batteries a key power-sector player."

Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [39]
Technology [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Canary Media [41], 12/05/2025
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"New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region" [42]

"As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine and the risk of mass displacement, the World Meteorological Organization warned Thursday."

Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [43]
Environmental Health [29]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
Africa [44]
Middle East [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 12/05/2025
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"Deadly Asian Floods Are No Fluke. They’re A Climate Warning, Scientists Say" [47]

"Southeast Asia is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [43]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
International [48]
Asia [49]
Australia & Oceania [50]
Source: AP [51], 12/05/2025
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Interior Dept Finally Releases High Official’s Financial Disclosure [52]

"After a long delay, the Interior Department’s Office of Government Ethics last week provided Public Domain the financial disclosure of Karen Budd-Falen, a high-ranking Trump appointee at DOI." "Karen Budd-Falen, a self-described “cowboy lawyer," owns ranch operations and real estate rentals. Her family has also had sizable investments in oil companies."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Public Domain [53], 12/05/2025
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Farmers Block Mexico’s Congress With Tractors To Protest Water Law Proposal [54]

"Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use."

Activism [55]
Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
Mexico [56]
Source: AP [57], 12/05/2025
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Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy in Nev. [58]

"A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada — metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden geothermal resources deep underground, says that it has identified a new commercially viable site for a potential power plant. The discovery, the company claims, is the first of its kind made by the industry in decades."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [39]
Natural Resources [22]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: WIRED [59], 12/05/2025
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‘Feeding Frenzy’ Is Encouraging Sign For Struggling Calif. Brown Pelicans [60]

"On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the big-billed birds plunge beneath the surface in search of northern anchovies, Pacific sardines and mackerel."

Biodiversity [18]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Water & Oceans [35]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [61]
Source: AP [62], 12/05/2025
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Trump Loosens Gas Mileage Rule for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy [63]

"President Trump on Wednesday threw the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline rather than electric cars, gutting one of the country’s most significant efforts to address climate change and thrusting the automobile industry into greater uncertainty."

Air [64]
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [65]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [34]
Transportation [66]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [67], 12/04/2025
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As Countries Set Trade Rules at CITES, Animal and Plant Trafficking Rages On [68]

"Whether people realize it or not, traces of the global wildlife trade are ubiquitous, from expensive reptile-skin boots in department stores to the colorful fish swimming around a tank in your dentist’s office."

Biodiversity [18]
Economy & Business [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [33]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [48]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 12/04/2025
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"Trump Logging Plan Threatens Centuries-Old Trees, Fuels Lawsuits" [70]

"Visiting a freshly logged forest in western Oregon earlier this fall, retired federal wildlife surveyor Erich Reeder stepped over mangled tree roots and dead limbs scattered across a denuded slope that was once an evergreen forest. He squatted over a foot-tall Douglas fir stump to count its rings: 120 years old."

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [71]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [72], 12/04/2025
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"Trump Dismantles Programs Designed To Cut Electricity Demand" [73]

"The Trump administration is scrambling to ensure there’s enough electricity to power new data centers and stem rising utility bills — even as it dismantles some critical programs designed to help solve the problem."

Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [74], 12/04/2025
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Whitmer 7th Governor Urging EPA To Monitor Microplastics In Drinking Water [75]

"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week joined governors from six other states signing onto a petition demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency add microplastics to its program collecting data on contaminants not currently covered by the Safe Drinking Water Act."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [65]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [76]
Source: Michigan Advance [77], 12/04/2025
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