EJToday: Top Headlines

"To Meet Pledges to Save Forests Spending Must Triple, U.N. Report Says" [9]

"Nations are not spending enough to ensure that the forests that cover nearly a third of the planet remain healthy, according to a new United Nations report. To meet various international climate, biodiversity and land restoration goals, annual global spending needs to triple to $300 billion by 2030, the report found."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Forests [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Source: NYTimes [19], 10/17/2025
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"U.S. Mayors To Take Lead At COP30 In Place Of Trump" [20]

"As the Trump administration halts climate programmes, local leaders plan to participate in Brazil's COP30 to reaffirm their commitment."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [23], 10/17/2025
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"Trump Admin Approves $1.6B In Financing For AEP Transmission Project" [24]

"In a rare example of continuity on energy policy, Trump’s DOE finalized the Biden-era loan to upgrade 5,000 miles of power lines across the Midwest."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Canary Media [26], 10/17/2025
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"Ohio To Fast-Track Energy At Former Coal Mines And Brownfields" [27]

"A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [15]
Waste [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: Canary Media [33], 10/17/2025
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As Wolves Roam Calif., Livestock Losses Remain Low, Yet Ranchers Worry [34]

"In California, as wolf numbers grow — a remarkable return after a century — livestock producers are increasingly worried as these predators occasionally take down cattle."

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [10]
People & Population [36]
Wildlife [37]
Public [16]
California [38]
Source: Mongabay [39], 10/17/2025
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Journalists Turn In Badges, Exit Pentagon Rather Than Agree To New Rules [40]

"Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power."

Government [22]
Journalism & Media [41]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [42]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [43], 10/16/2025
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"A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone" [44]

"Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January."

Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Environmental Studies [13]
Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: WIRED [46], 10/16/2025
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"Court Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Layoff Plans" [47]

"A federal judge in California has temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the government shutdown as the basis for layoffs at EPA, the Energy Department and other agencies."

Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [48], 10/16/2025
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"Natural Gas Prices Are Low, But Your Monthly Gas Bill Is Up. Here's Why" [49]

"In the Philadelphia suburb of Wyncote, Pa., Michelle Lordi has taken notice of her higher gas bills. ... Now Lordi is making the connection between her higher gas bill and the nearby construction."

Consumer [50]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Transportation [51]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NPR [52], 10/16/2025
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UN Warns Colombia Over Mercury In Atrato River As Human Rights Emergency [53]

"The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities who depend on the river for food, water and culture."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [54]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [55]
Natural Resources [56]
People & Population [36]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [57]
Public [16]
South America [58]
Source: AP [59], 10/16/2025
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"Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant" [60]

"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [61]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [55]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [30]
People & Population [36]
Water & Oceans [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [62]
Source: NYTimes [63], 10/16/2025
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"Texas County Sues Trump Admin Over Canceled Solar Grants" [64]

"A Texas county is suing EPA over the agency’s cancellation of nearly $250 million in solar energy grants." "The lawsuit says the Trump administration unlawfully revoked funding for low-income communities to access clean, affordable energy."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [55]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Technology [65]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [66]
Source: E&E News [67], 10/16/2025
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"Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Forever Chemicals In Cookware" [68]

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of “forever chemicals” in cookware and other products in California."

Chemicals [54]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [21]
Food [69]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [36]
Pollution [15]
Technology [65]
Public [16]
California [38]
Source: The Hill [70], 10/16/2025
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"Calif.'s Incarcerated Firefighters Just Got A Nearly 700% Raise" [71]

"More than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters were sent to Southern California in January to fight four different wildfires. As the Palisades Fire ran up a hillside, one strike team saved the life of a resident who was still at his home."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [61]
Environmental Justice [55]
Natural Resources [56]
People & Population [36]
Public [16]
California [38]
Source: SFGate [72], 10/16/2025
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Aeroecology Reveals Creatures That Populate the Skies and How They Survive [73]

"The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there"

Air [74]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Studies [13]
Natural Resources [56]
Science [75]
Wildlife [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Source: Smithsonian [76], 10/16/2025
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