EJToday: Top Headlines

"Interior Secretary Puts DOGE Representative In Charge Of Department Cuts" [9]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given a former oil executive and aide to Elon Musk broad latitude to cut costs and consolidate work within his vast department, which oversees more than 500 million acres of land across the United States."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [21], 04/22/2025
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Climate Change and More [22]

"By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [24]
Science [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: ProPublica [26], 04/22/2025
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"The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas" [27]

"An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that a single year of greenhouse gas emissions from tankers carrying LNG from the United States more than cancels out the annual reductions achieved through driving all the electric vehicles currently on U.S. roads."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Studies [24]
Pollution [28]
Transportation [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 04/22/2025
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"Sludge Contaminated 10,000 Acres of Farmland. What Should Be Done?" [33]

"For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”"

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [35]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [37]
Food [38]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [28]
Waste [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 04/22/2025
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New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Importance [42]

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

Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [24]
Journalism & Media [43]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Revelator [44], 04/22/2025
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"Trump Admin Reveals Timeline For Approving Resolution Copper Mine" [45]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [28]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [47]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [48]
Source: E&E News [49], 04/21/2025
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Trump Admin Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills [50]

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

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [36]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [51]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 04/21/2025
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"Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders" [53]

"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 [54]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [43]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [28]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 04/21/2025
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"DOJ Questions Science Journal About Bias, Triggering Free-Speech Concerns" [56]

"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 [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [24]
Journalism & Media [43]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [57], 04/21/2025
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"EPA Withholds Layoff, Restructuring Plan" [58]

"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 [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Journalism & Media [43]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [28]
Science [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [59], 04/21/2025
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"Trump’s Tariffs Push ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Into Limbo" [60]

"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 [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [61], 04/21/2025
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Energy Efficiency Program Killed; Advocates Say Louisianans Will Pay Price [62]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [46]
Public [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Floodlight [63], 04/21/2025
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"About A Sixth Of Global Cropland Likely Polluted With Toxic Metals: Study" [64]

"Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many as 1.4 billion people reside in areas with soil dangerously polluted with compounds like arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel and lead, according to the study, published in Science."

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [35]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [23]
Food [38]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [28]
Public [19]
International [31]
Source: The Hill [65], 04/21/2025
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Everglades Restoration Would Protect Florida Keys Amid Drought [66]

"The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts. Florida Bay, a body of water located between the southern end of mainland Florida and the Florida Keys, makes up about a third of Everglades National Park."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Studies [24]
Fish & Fisheries [67]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: AP [68], 04/21/2025
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"Listening for Whale Sounds 1,000 Feet Deep in the Antarctic Ocean" [69]

"Heidi Ahonen is a bioacoustician recording whale calls, whistles and songs to understand if the marine mammals are crossing paths with krill fishing vessels in one of the most extreme environments on Earth."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Studies [24]
Fish & Fisheries [67]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
International [31]
Antarctica & Arctic [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 04/21/2025
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