EJToday: Top Headlines

Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks [9]

"Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Capital & Main [16], 09/09/2026
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Report Flags Thousands Of Food Packaging Chemicals For Replacement [17]

"A new study identifies the chemical groups that packaging manufacturers and regulators should target for replacement in the food system to protect human health."

Activism [18]
Chemicals [19]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Chemical & Engineering News [21], 09/09/2026
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In an Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster, Rebuilding Is the Wrong Goal [22]

"This spring, the Southeast was on fire. Ninety-five percent of the region was in severe drought, and in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas what was burning was what’s called the “blowdown” from Hurricane Helene — the fires tearing through landscapes heavy with trees felled a year and a half ago and left to bake into ready fuel, waiting for a spark."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: New York Times [25], 09/09/2026
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S. Calif. Authorities Respond To A Leak Of An Unknown Chemical From A Tank [26]

"A slow leak from a chemical tank smeared an orange cloud across the sky of a Southern California neighborhood on Tuesday, but authorities said they quickly got it under control."

Chemicals [19]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
California [27]
Source: AP [28], 09/09/2026
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Beloved Tree Fell In Washington And People Covered It With Thank-You Notes [29]

"Apparently, if a tree falls in Washington, people will notice — and even mourn its collapse."

Activism [18]
Biodiversity [30]
Forests [31]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: Washington Post [34], 09/09/2026
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Farmers Are Going Broke While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them [35]

"As farmers grapple with soaring diesel and fertilizer prices and the Department of Agriculture yanks support for cheaper, renewable forms of energy, the agency’s chief, Brooke Rollins, is carrying millions in highly profitable oil and gas investments."

Agriculture [36]
Conflict/Corruption [37]
Consumer [38]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [40]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 09/08/2026
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Underserved Communities Again Ask Courts to Restore Justice Grant Funding [43]

"Plaintiffs are continuing to press the Trump administration in federal court to restore $3 billion in grant funding for environmental and climate justice programs that would benefit underserved communities, as a Sept. 30 deadline nears."

Consumer [38]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 09/08/2026
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Pipeline Firm That Spilled Fuel in Pa. Is Trying to Weaken Clean Water Law [47]

"Energy Transfer, the Dallas-based pipeline giant facing a state-level criminal probe related to a jet fuel spill that polluted drinking water in a suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, is seeking to have part of Pennsylvania’s 89-year-old Clean Streams Law declared unconstitutional."

Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [44]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 09/08/2026
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New Mexico Bans Uranium Leasing on State Lands [49]

"Officials in New Mexico, the nation’s largest historic producer of uranium ore, banned new leasing of state lands for uranium mining on Friday." "The move to block new mining projects comes as the Trump administration seeks to revive American uranium production."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 09/08/2026
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Amid Extreme Weather Black and Hispanic Homeowners Pay More for Insurance [53]

"Homeowners in Hispanic and Black communities nationwide are paying a disproportionate share of skyrocketing home insurance costs, according to a recent report. The disparities leave communities of color at greater risk as climate change increases the frequency of billion-dollar disasters."

Climate Change [23]
Consumer [38]
Disasters [24]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Justice [45]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 09/08/2026
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How The Data Center Backlash Is Growing In U.S. Statehouses [55]

"As legislation is introduced at a record pace, public opposition is driving more proposals that seek to restrict the tech giants."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Planning & Growth [56]
Technology [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [58], 09/08/2026
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Pentagon Delays PFAS Cleanup at Over 200 Military Sites for Third Time [59]

"The Pentagon is again delaying its timelines to clean up “forever chemicals” at hundreds of contaminated military sites across �the United States, the third time in a year the department has extended estimates for completing a key phase of the cleanups."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [44]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Military [60]
People & Population [32]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [61]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NOTUS [62], 09/08/2026
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Trump Administration Moves to Drop Protections for More Wetlands [63]

"The Trump administration on Friday took another step toward stripping federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands, which help filter drinking water for many communities and provide critical habitat for birds, fish and other wildlife."

Agriculture [36]
Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [50]
Wildlife [64]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: New York Times [65], 09/08/2026
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Trump Seeks to Ease Meat Processing Regulations, Targets Big 4 Packers [66]

“Trump said Friday that he was authorizing legal documents to be drafted to give farmers and ranchers ‘the right to process their own food,’ casting the move as an effort to break what he called a ‘nasty monopoly’ in the meat industry,” Macias reported." “The announcement came after cattle producers and some Republicans pushed back on Trump’s plan to temporarily allow tariff-free imports of up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef, a move intended to ease pressure on consumers facing high prices at the meat counter.”

Agriculture [36]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [44]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Successful Farming [67], 09/08/2026
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Is Your City Prepared for Climate Disaster? [68]

"A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Government [41]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [69]
Source: New York Times [70], 09/08/2026
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