EJToday: Top Headlines

"One Of The Worst Parts Of Owning An EV Is Quickly Getting Better" [9]

"Even as electric vehicle sales slump, the U.S. fast-charging network grew over 30 percent last year, a new report shows."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Technology [15]
Transportation [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [19], 01/29/2026
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"EPA Cuts Top Executive Jobs Under Trump’s Reorg" [20]

"EPA plans to clip its managerial corps as the agency is reshaped under the Trump administration. More than a dozen top executive positions will be eliminated, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by POLITICO’s E&E News."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [23]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [24], 01/29/2026
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"Trump Admin Clips EPA Oversight Amid Deregulatory Blitz" [25]

"The Trump administration has squelched both external and internal oversight of EPA’s deregulatory agenda with moves that silence forums for critics, among other impacts, a review by POLITICO’s E&E News has found."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Science [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [30], 01/29/2026
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Europe’s Supermarkets Packed With ‘Misleading’ Claims About Recycled Plastic [31]

"Europe’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum." "Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based".

Chemicals [32]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Public [17]
Europe [33]
Source: Guardian [34], 01/29/2026
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"Kristi Noem Under Fire For $1 Billion Disaster Relief 'Logjam'" [35]

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has created a "logjam" for roughly $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster prevention projects around the country, NOTUS reported on Wednesday morning."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [37]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Raw Story [39], 01/29/2026
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"Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier" [40]

"A new lawsuit against oil giants over their role in climate change is pursuing a novel strategy that may ring a bell. It’s focusing on high prices and affordability."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Source: NYTimes [42], 01/29/2026
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Court Orders Dutch Govt To Protect Caribbean Island From Climate Change [43]

"A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
Europe [33]
Source: AP [44], 01/29/2026
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"EPA To Roll Back ‘Good Neighbor’ Rule On Downwind Smokestack Pollution [45]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday took a step toward rolling back a rule that limits smokestack emissions that burden downwind areas in neighboring states."

Air [46]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [47], 01/29/2026
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"Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom" [48]

"Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research found, is explicitly linked to gas projects that will power data centers—the equivalent of energy that would power tens of millions of US homes."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [49], 01/29/2026
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King Charles' Documentary Sets Out His Philosophy For Saving The Planet [50]

King Charles III is clearly thinking about his legacy. In his new film, “Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision,” Charles delivers a simple message — that humanity needs to restore the balance between man and nature if it hopes to solve global warming and many of the other problems facing the world today. Helping spread that gospel, he hopes, will be his legacy."

Activism [51]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [29]
Public [17]
International [52]
Europe [33]
Source: AP [53], 01/29/2026
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"The Trump Administration Has Secretly Rewritten Nuclear Safety Rules" [54]

"The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR."

Disasters [36]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [14]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [56], 01/28/2026
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"Syngenta Settles Bellwether US Trial Over Paraquat Links To Parkinson’s" [57]

"On the eve of the opening of what would have been a bellwether US trial over allegations that a widely used weed killer causes Parkinson’s disease, paraquat-maker Syngenta reached a settlement with the retired landscaper who blamed the company for his diagnosis with the incurable brain disease."

Agriculture [58]
Chemicals [32]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [59], 01/28/2026
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"More History Exhibits Pulled From National Parks, Including Grand Canyon" [60]

"Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans in a renewed push to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order on “restoring truth and sanity to American history.”

Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [61]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [62], 01/28/2026
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‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves Closer To Midnight Amid Nukes, Climate Change And AI [63]

"Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight."

Activism [51]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [26]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Technology [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [52]
Source: AP [64], 01/28/2026
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"The ‘Biggest Tragedy’ of Trump’s Gutting of the National Park Service" [65]

"With the second coming of Donald J. Trump, the first Native American director of the National Park Service packed up his belongings in Washington, D.C., and retreated here to the sagebrush outback of eastern Oregon."

Environmental Politics [22]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [37]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 01/28/2026
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