EJToday: Top Headlines

"Denied Federal Flood Relief, A Maryland Town Is Left On Its Own" [9]

"The residents of Westernport, Maryland, overwhelmingly voted for Trump. But after FEMA denied its aid request, the town feels like the president has turned his back on them."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [21], 07/28/2025
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"Gold Wars In Peru Town Leave Amazon Nature Defenders Vulnerable" [22]

"Illegal gold mining in one of Peru's most ecologically significant areas has unleashed environmental destruction and gang violence."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [26]
Technology [27]
Public [19]
International [28]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [29], 07/28/2025
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Volunteers Hand-Repair Parts Of Appalachian Trail Damaged By Helene [30]

"In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side. Its tangled web of roots and dark brown soil, known as a root ball, is roughly the size of a large kiddie pool."

Activism [31]
Disasters [11]
Forests [32]
Infrastructure [33]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [34], 07/28/2025
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Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for COP30 [35]

"The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [33]
People & Population [17]
Public [19]
International [28]
South America [36]
Source: NYTimes [37], 07/28/2025
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US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border [38]

"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [33]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [39]
Mexico [40]
Source: AP [41], 07/25/2025
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Senate Committee Advances Bipartisan Interior-Environment Spending Bill [42]

"Senate appropriators on Thursday advanced legislation funding environment and natural resource agencies targeted for deep budget cuts by the Trump administration." "The bill’s spending would be higher than a House Republican proposal and the Trump administration’s budget request."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [44], 07/25/2025
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For Millions In US Mobile Home Parks, Clean And Safe Tap Water Isn’t A Given [45]

"More than 50 years after the Safe Drinking Water Act was passed to ensure that Americans’ water is free from harmful bacteria, lead and other dangerous substances, millions of people living in mobile home parks can’t always count on those basic protections."

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [46]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [13]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [47], 07/25/2025
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PFAS Chemicals Are Contaminating Great Lakes Drinking Water [48]

"There has been evidence for a few years that levels in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence were higher than the national average, but not high enough to cause immediate alarm. But what is considered safe is evolving, as research increasingly links forever chemicals to an array of potential health risks, such as cancer and reproductive issues."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Infrastructure [33]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [49]
Canada [50]
Source: CBC [51], 07/25/2025
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‘Total Infiltration’: How Plastics Industry Swamped Global Treaty Talks [52]

"Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet"

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [46]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Food [54]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
International [28]
Source: Guardian [55], 07/25/2025
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Fires Are Now The Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower [56]

"Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right."

Biodiversity [57]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Studies [58]
Forests [32]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [19]
International [28]
Source: NYTimes [59], 07/25/2025
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"Where Do Untraceable Fishing Fleets Go?" [60]

"Many ‘dark vessels’ fish illegally in oceans worldwide. New studies show how often they go into Marine Protected Areas."

Fish & Fisheries [53]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
International [28]
Source: NYTimes [61], 07/25/2025
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Trump Team Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing [62]

"Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?"

Biodiversity [57]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [17]
Planning & Growth [63]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Public Domain [64], 07/25/2025
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Helene and Cleanup Efforts Decimated North America’s Most Biodiverse Waters [65]

"Endangered aquatic species remain vulnerable nearly a year after the storm moved through Appalachia and the lower Midwest."

Biodiversity [57]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [66]
Public [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [67]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 07/25/2025
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Yellowstone Aspen May Be Recovering Thanks To 1990s Reintroduction Of Wolves [69]

"The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found."

Biodiversity [57]
Environmental Studies [58]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
Wildlife [66]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [70]
Source: The Hill [71], 07/25/2025
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"E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change" [72]

"The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [58]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [26]
Science [73]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [74], 07/24/2025
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