EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs" [9]

"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta” of environmental laws."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 02/20/2025
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Trump Clamps Down On Independent Agencies’ Power [21]

"President Donald Trump is expanding White House control over independent agencies in a move his critics view as an alarming power grab."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [23], 02/20/2025
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"Climate Advocacy Groups File Two Lawsuits Against Trump Administration" [24]

"Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration. Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal."

Activism [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [27], 02/20/2025
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"Washington Post Backs Out Of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ Ad Order" [28]

"The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause."

Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [30], 02/20/2025
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"WWF Helping Facilitate Trade In Polar Bear Fur, Investigation Reveals" [31]

"The wildlife charity WWF has been maintaining policies that work to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed."

Activism [25]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [34]
Canada [35]
Antarctica & Arctic [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 02/20/2025
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"Rural Ohioans Oppose Solar Farms, Right? Not So, Developer Finds" [38]

"A large majority of public commenters support Open Road Renewables’ plan to build a big agrivoltaics project in central Ohio." "A new analysis shows that a clear majority of people submitting comments on a planned central Ohio solar farm support the project — a stark contrast with how opponents have portrayed public sentiment."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [42]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Source: Canary Media [44], 02/20/2025
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"Louisiana Gas Export Terminal Gets Key Approval to Move Ahead" [45]

"The U.S. Department of Energy has granted conditional authorization for a contested project to export liquified natural gas in southwest Louisiana, potentially the first in a string of such moves in the second Trump administration."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 02/20/2025
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"Feds Approve Another Deepwater Oil Export Terminal Off Texas" [47]

"The Trump administration on Friday approved plans for a second deepwater oil loading terminal off the Texas coast, opening another door for continued long-term growth in American crude production and exports." "An export infrastructure buildout will enable further growth in American oil production as momentum fades on a phase-out of fossil fuels, even as global temperatures continue to break records."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [42]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 02/20/2025
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"How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick" [49]

"Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations."

Chemicals [50]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [41]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 02/20/2025
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"High-Ranking D.C. Federal Prosecutor Resigns Over Order To Freeze EPA Funds" [53]

"The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with an urgent Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to the official’s resignation letter and two people familiar with the matter."

Activism [25]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [54], 02/19/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to Fast-Track Hundreds of Fossil Fuel Projects" [55]

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has created a new class of “emergency” permits for fossil fuel projects, raising the possibility that pipelines, mines, power plants and other facilities could be fast-tracked for approval as part of President Trump’s demand to increase oil, gas and coal production."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [42]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [56]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [57], 02/19/2025
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USDA Accidentally Fired Officials Working On Bird Flu, Now Trying To Rehire [58]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings."

Agriculture [39]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [59]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Wildlife [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NBC News [60], 02/19/2025
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"FEMA Restricts Media Communications" [61]

"The agency’s acting administrator directed employees to not engage with the media without “prior authorization.”"

Disasters [62]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [22]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [63], 02/19/2025
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"Trump’s Oil Ambitions Face Harsh Economic And Geologic Realities" [64]

"The president is calling for energy dominance, but aging shale plays aren’t positioned to deliver a surge of new oil production."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [65], 02/19/2025
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"Climate Aid Projects Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down" [66]

"Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [62]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Military [67]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [68]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [34]
Source: NYTimes [69], 02/19/2025
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