EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Administration Cancels $3 Billion Climate-Friendly Farming Program" [9]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday said it had canceled a $3 billion program for climate-smart farming projects after a review found it did not align with the priorities of the Trump administration."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 04/15/2025
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"AP Journalists Held Out Of White House Events Despite Judge’s Ruling" [22]

"The Associated Press was not included in the in-town pool Monday, and its journalists were rebuffed when trying to cover an Oval Office meeting."

Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [24], 04/15/2025
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Big Oil Seeks to Shield Itself From Climate Liability While Trump Is in Power [25]

"As several climate liability lawsuits against large oil and gas companies inch closer to trial and states start to adopt climate “Superfund” legislation, the White House and Republican-controlled Congress are rolling out new measures to shield the industry from accountability."

Activism [26]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Sierra [28], 04/15/2025
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"U.S. Butterfly Population Declined 22 Percent In Two Decades" [29]

"Experts say the drop in abundance is largely due to chemical use, habitat loss, and a warming climate"

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Studies [31]
Natural Resources [16]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette [32], 04/15/2025
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"PR Campaign May Have Fuelled Food Study Backlash, Leaked Document Shows" [33]

"A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation."

Climate Change [12]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [31]
Food [36]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [37], 04/15/2025
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"Documents Reveal Trump’s Plan To Gut Funding For Nasa And Climate Science" [38]

"Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed"

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Science [39]
Technology [40]
Transportation [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [42], 04/15/2025
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Trump Axed Rule Designed To Spare Taxpayers The Burden Of Future Flooding [43]

"The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [46]
Planning & Growth [47]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Grist/BPR [48], 04/15/2025
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France’s New High-Speed Train Has Americans Asking: Why Can’t We Have That? [49]

"Here's why the U.S. is behind on building high-speed rail — and what could create momentum to catch up."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Infrastructure [45]
Technology [40]
Transportation [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Europe [50]
Source: Grist [51], 04/15/2025
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"Inside The Fight To Save California’s Dying Sea Lions From Toxic Algae" [52]

"An animal’s chance of survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year an outbreak has sickened hundreds"

Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [44]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
California [55]
Northwest (OR WA) [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 04/15/2025
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"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research" [58]

"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [59]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [31]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Government [60]
Natural Resources [16]
Science [39]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [61], 04/14/2025
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"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs" [62]

"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."

Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [34]
Disasters [44]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [59]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [31]
Government [60]
Health [63]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [54]
Waste [64]
Water & Oceans [17]
Wildlife [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [65], 04/14/2025
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Court Allows Suit Alleging Environmental Racism In La. Parish To Proceed [66]

"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."

Activism [26]
Chemicals [30]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [59]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [54]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [67]
Source: AP [68], 04/14/2025
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Nations Agree On First-Ever Global Fee On Greenhouse Gases From Shipping [69]

"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [54]
Transportation [41]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [19]
International [70]
Source: AP [71], 04/14/2025
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Oil Company Fined $18 Million For Defying State Orders To Stop Pipeline Work [72]

"The California Coastal Commission today fined an oil company a record $18 million for repeatedly defying orders to stop work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that caused a major oil spill nearly a decade ago."

Disasters [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [54]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [19]
California [55]
Source: CalMatters [73], 04/14/2025
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"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting" [74]

"The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors."

Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [54]
Science [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [75], 04/14/2025
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