EJToday: Top Headlines

"Poultry Plants Consistently Violate Salmonella Standards, Report Finds" [9]

"Several of the country’s largest chicken and turkey companies operate processing plants that routinely violate the federal government’s safety standards for salmonella contamination, according to a new analysis released by the animal welfare organization Farm Forward."

Agriculture [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Civil Eats [17], 11/04/2025
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"Emergency Language In Wildfire Bill Splits Environmentalists" [18]

"A fast-moving bill to reduce wildfire risks in national forests would give the Agriculture Department a work-around past even the bill’s modest environmental safeguards, making the measure tough to swallow for some environmentalists and Hill Democrats."

Disasters [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [22], 11/04/2025
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Citizen Pollution Monitoring Persists In Louisiana, Despite Law That Limits It [23]

"Communities around Louisiana, in a bid to get more information about the environmental and health impacts of industrial pollution, are taking data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their research findings can be used to enforce state regulations. "

Air [24]
Chemicals [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Louisiana Illuminator [31], 11/04/2025
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Exxon-Funded Thinktanks To Spread Climate Denial In Latin America: Documents [32]

"Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

Climate Change [33]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [34]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [29]
Public [15]
International [35]
South America [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 11/04/2025
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"Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?" [38]

"Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for forest conservation, but some ecologists and economists are raising concerns."

Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [33]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [29]
Public [15]
International [35]
South America [36]
Source: YaleE360 [40], 11/04/2025
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"Mussels Reveal Growing Microplastic Pollution In Greece's Prized Seas" [41]

"Overtourism and heavy maritime traffic across the Mediterranean are contributing to a rise in pollution in Greece's azure waters, say Greek scientists who have deployed thousands of mussels on the seafloor to help detect microplastics."

Chemicals [25]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [15]
Africa [44]
Europe [45]
Source: Reuters [46], 11/04/2025
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"Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants" [47]

"The U.S. Department of Energy has announced up to $100 million in federal funding for projects modernizing the nation’s remaining coal plants, nearly half of which were slated to close by 2030."

Climate Change [33]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [29]
Technology [50]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 11/04/2025
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How Powerful Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out [52]

"In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators."

Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [53], 11/04/2025
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"Video Shows Orcas Hunting Great White Sharks And Devouring Their Livers" [54]

"A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open." "Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks."

Biodiversity [39]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Water & Oceans [43]
Wildlife [55]
Public [15]
International [35]
Mexico [56]
Source: NBC News [57], 11/04/2025
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"Energy Bills Are Rising Nationwide. In Georgia, They’re On The Ballot." [58]

"The race for two seats on the obscure board that regulates Georgia’s utilities is drawing national attention — and could have major implications both for electricity affordability and one of the biggest planned fossil-fuel buildouts in the nation."

Climate Change [33]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [59], 11/03/2025
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"CBS News Just Gutted Its Climate Team" [60]

"Americans who rely on broadcast networks for honest journalism suffered a painful loss this week, as CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change."

Climate Change [33]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [34]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Climate Colored Goggles [61], 11/03/2025
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Wash. Court Restores $185 Million Verdict For Teachers Poisoned By PCBs [62]

"The Washington Supreme Court this week restored a $185 million verdict against the former Monsanto company, now owned by Bayer, over toxic chemicals in a state school building that allegedly poisoned three teachers."

Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [63]
Source: The New Lede [64], 11/03/2025
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"EPA: Superfund Cleanup ‘Likely’ Fouled Pennsylvania Town’s Water" [65]

"Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water."

Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [66]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [29]
Waste [67]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [68]
Source: E&E News [69], 11/03/2025
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Sludge Is Used As Fertilizer Across Wisconsin. How Much Is Tainted By PFAS? [70]

"Sludge and septage are spread across around half a million acres statewide, but most of it has never been tested for PFAS"

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [71]
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio [72], 11/03/2025
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"Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S." [73]

"Even though it delivers airtight data and analysis essential for understanding and managing the risks industrial societies pose to water, land, and health, the U.S. Geological Survey is a federal science agency that rarely attracts public notice."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Circle of Blue [74], 11/03/2025
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