EJToday: Top Headlines

Energy Costs Dominate Midterms; Climate Battles Play Out Down Ballot [9]

"Heating oil, gas and electricity are driving campaigns across the U.S., but the elections will also determine the future of clean energy."

"In the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaigns, the most potent climate issue in American politics arrived by delivery truck across the country.
Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Capital & Main [19], 11/02/2026
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Flash Flooding Triggers Evacuations In Southwest, Warning For Colo. Spa Town [20]

"More heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a wide swath of the Southwest on Sunday, including in a Colorado tourist town bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels, as weary residents in the normally arid region deal with another massive drenching."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: AP [25], 11/02/2026
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CDC Scientists Sought Urgent Alert On Measles In Pregnancy. It Wasn’t Approved. [26]

"Federal health scientists are trying to alert doctors to the risks of measles during pregnancy as U.S. cases surge, but how quickly that information will reach clinicians — and where it will be published — remains uncertain amid internal conflict, according to five people familiar with the discussions."

Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [29], 11/02/2026
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Big Oil Scores $56B Windfall on Spiking Fuel Prices [30]

"Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [33]
Source: Bloomberg [34], 11/02/2026
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As Toxic Fire Burns, LA Officials Ghost Chiquita Canyon Landfill Hearing [35]

"A group of California lawmakers and state oversight officials have admonished Los Angeles County health authorities for failing to attend a public hearing on their response to a toxic chemical reaction within Chiquita Canyon Landfill."

Activism [10]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Waste [38]
Public [17]
California [39]
Source: Los Angeles Times [40], 11/02/2026
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Global Talks on Nature End With Persistent Gaps on Action and Funding [41]

"Two weeks of global negotiations to protect the world’s wildlife and ecosystems ended on Saturday in Yerevan, Armenia, with nations reaffirming their pledges to protect nature but still off track to meet an ambitious set of targets by a 2030 deadline."

Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [43]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Wildlife [45]
Public [17]
International [33]
Source: New York Times [46], 11/02/2026
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Colorado Community Fights Plan To Use Drones To Spray Weed Killer [47]

"Soon, weed-killing chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder county, Colorado."

Agriculture [48]
Air [49]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: Guardian [50], 11/02/2026
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The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive [51]

"Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear."

Chemicals [36]
Conflict/Corruption [52]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Mother Jones [54], 11/02/2026
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Trump USFS Head Ignores Order To Remove Cabin From Public Land [55]

"The U.S. Forest Service, which Michael Boren now oversees, appears to have abandoned any further enforcement action."

Conflict/Corruption [52]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: Public Domain [56], 11/02/2026
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Climate Helps Insects Eat More Crops, So Farmers Spray More Pesticides [57]

"Farmers around the world are spraying more chemicals than ever on their crops as they battle insect pests. Many of these small, hungry creatures have benefited from climate change, which has expanded their range, extended their breeding season, and made them harder to control with pesticides."

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [58]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Technology [59]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [33]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [60], 11/02/2026
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Water Quality And Cancer Concerns Top Of Mind For Iowa Voters [61]

"Amid the election-year debates, political advertisements and polls, one simple Iowa yard sign sums ups a core issue seen driving voter sentiment. It reads simply: “Fix the damn water.”"

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [62]
Source: The New Lede [63], 10/30/2026
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Rivers Near Wisconsin CAFOs Full Of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: Study [64]

"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are pervasive in streams and rivers downstream of large Wisconsin livestock operations, increasing the risk of superbugs that make people sick and cannot be treated, according to a new study. The water contamination likely stems from high use of antibiotics in animals housed in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, according to the study."

Agriculture [48]
Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [32]
Technology [59]
Waste [38]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [65]
Source: The New Lede [66], 10/30/2026
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Food Companies Turn School Meals Into A Market For Ultra-Processed Foods [67]

"Food manufacturers build brand recognition and loyalty, with the potential to influence children’s eating habits far beyond the school cafeteria"

Agriculture [48]
Economy & Business [68]
Environmental Health [27]
Food [58]
Health [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: U.S. Right To Know [69], 10/30/2026
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A New Kind of Battery Is Taking Off. This One Stores Blistering Heat. [70]

"Large batteries that store electricity have revolutionized power grids and car markets. Now some start-ups are betting that “heat batteries” could be just as transformative."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Technology [59]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: New York Times [71], 10/30/2026
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“Peak Greenwashing”: 2 U.S. Bills Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims [72]

"The plastics industry spent decades convincing consumers that throwing used products stamped with the “chasing arrows” symbol into a curbside bin meant they would be recycled. Now, amid growing awareness that many of those items never get reprocessed, the industry is championing a pair of proposals in Congress that would give misleading recycling claims the support of federal law."

Chemicals [36]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [68]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Waste [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [73], 10/30/2026
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