EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem" [9]

"When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 09/22/2025
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Enviros Worry Trump Re-Do Will Imperil Wyoming’s Climate-Stressed Red Desert [18]

"A pending ‘amendment’ to the BLM’s Rock Springs management plan is likely to open previously undeveloped areas to oil and gas drilling, observers say."

Biodiversity [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: WyoFile [24], 09/22/2025
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"Trump Nears Deal for Road Through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge" [25]

"The Trump administration is poised to approve a deal that would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska, according to internal Interior Department documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Biodiversity [19]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [27]
Health [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [30]
Transportation [31]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [32]
Source: NYTimes [33], 09/22/2025
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Colorado To Join Suit Alleging Oil Trains' Endangered Species Violations [34]

"Colorado, along with 15 other states, is poised to sue the federal government for ignoring endangered species regulations in a wide range of infrastructure projects on public lands. One of those projects, a controversial proposal to expand an oil shipping facility in Utah, would significantly increase hazardous rail shipments through Colorado."

Biodiversity [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: States Newsroom [36], 09/22/2025
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‘Female Fairywrens Sing To Their Eggs’ And Eight More Facts About Birdsong [37]

"From carolling magpies to the lullaby of fairywrens, the nature and purpose of birdsong is more varied than you might think"

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Studies [35]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [38]
Source: Guardian [39], 09/22/2025
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Wildfire Smoke Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in US, New Study Warns [40]

"Smoke from wildfires exacerbated by climate change may cause as many as 71,000 additional deaths per year in the United States by 2050, a study published Thursday in the journal Nature found."

Air [41]
Climate Change [42]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Studies [35]
Forests [27]
Pollution [44]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [38]
Canada [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 09/19/2025
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"Major Burgum Donor Lands Plum Job at Interior Department" [47]

"William Hague is a former telecom executive, and a campaign contributor to Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary."

Environmental Politics [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Public Domain [48], 09/19/2025
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"FOIA Records Reveal EPA Leaders Frequent Meetings With Industry Lobbyists" [49]

"Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission."

Agriculture [50]
Chemicals [51]
Climate Change [42]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [44]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [52], 09/19/2025
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"A Coal-Burning Steel Plant May Thwart Cleveland’s Climate Goals" [53]

"The facility is the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology."

Air [41]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [44]
Technology [54]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [55]
Source: Canary Media [56], 09/19/2025
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"Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways" [57]

"This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways."

Activism [58]
Chemicals [51]
Consumer [43]
Pollution [44]
Water & Oceans [59]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 09/19/2025
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Enviros and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Justice Grants [61]

"Environmental justice nonprofits, local governments and Indigenous groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center filed notice on Tuesday that they will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s dismissal of their case seeking to reverse the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program in February."

Activism [58]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [62]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [44]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 09/19/2025
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Proposed Dominion Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says [64]

"The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents."

Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [62]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [44]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [65]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 09/19/2025
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Hurricane Helene Hit NC A Year Ago. Some Students Never Returned To School [67]

"When 12-year-old Natalie Briggs visited the ruins of her home after Hurricane Helene, she had to tightrope across a wooden beam to reach what was once her bedroom."

Climate Change [42]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Justice [62]
Government [68]
Infrastructure [29]
People & Population [30]
Water & Oceans [59]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [69]
Source: AP/BRPR [70], 09/19/2025
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Maryland Joins Multistate Coalition To Buck Trump Vaccine Policies [71]

"Maryland has joined a growing coalition of states that are setting their own public health guidelines to counter the Trump administration’s more restrictive vaccine policies, a health department spokesperson said Thursday."

Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [30]
Technology [54]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [65]
Source: States Newsroom [72], 09/19/2025
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‘Sun Day’: Climate Activists To Rally For Clean Energy Amid Trump Attacks [73]

"Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency"

Activism [58]
Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [44]
Technology [54]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [74], 09/19/2025
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