EJToday: Top Headlines

"Big Bend Wall Opponents Ask Congress To Block Funds" [9]

"In a map update posted last month to U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s website, the agency charted a major expansion of the border wall. It included terrain belonging to one of America’s most iconic wild areas, Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre desert landscape that includes the entire Chisos mountain range and more than 100 miles of the Rio Grande."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: Public Domain [19], 03/13/2026
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"Illinois To Data Centers: Bring Your Own Renewables And Skip The Line" [20]

"Proposed legislation offers perks for data centers that invest in clean energy. A broad coalition supports the bill, but details still need to be hammered out."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Source: Canary Media [26], 03/13/2026
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"Warming Waters Threaten Seafood Supply" [27]

"Fish are evolving ever smaller in order to survive temperature increases, new research warns. It’s a biological shift that will rob billions of meals from those who rely on fish for protein."

Climate Change [21]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Food [29]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
International [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 03/13/2026
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As Iran War Shakes Energy System, Some See Strong Case For Renewable Energy [32]

"World leaders have tried and failed to curb climate change by appealing to nations to act for the common good. Now, the Iran war and its costly energy crunch have some experts wondering if selfishness and nationalism may be a more likely way to save the planet, by boosting support for homegrown renewables over imported fossil fuels."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [11]
Pollution [33]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [30]
Source: AP [34], 03/13/2026
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"Ruling The Night: Bat Species At Risk" [35]

"On a recent afternoon, deep in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and less than an hour’s drive from Shenandoah National Park, a tricolored bat was moving its mouth rapidly, as if it was trying to chew something. In fact, it was echolocating, using its mouth to shape and direct pulses of ultrasonic sound as a way to survey its surroundings."

Biodiversity [10]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [36]
Source: National Parks Traveler [37], 03/13/2026
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Wealthy Nations Pledge Record Release Of Oil Reserves To Calm Surging Prices [38]

"A group representing many of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed Wednesday to release the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history, in a bid to counter the effects of the Iran war on energy markets and the halt of cargo shipping through the Strait of Hormuz."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Military [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [30]
Middle East [40]
Source: AP [41], 03/12/2026
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EPA Chief Met With Bayer CEO Over Supreme Court Fight, Agency Records Show [42]

"Top US regulators met with Bayer’s CEO last year to discuss “litigation” issues – including “Supreme Court Action” over its glyphosate weed killer – just months before the Trump administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer’s case at the high court, internal government records show."

Agriculture [43]
Chemicals [44]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [46], 03/12/2026
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"EPA Axes Union Contract" [47]

"EPA is canceling its collective bargaining agreement with its second-biggest union, a fierce critic of the Trump administration."

Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [49]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [50], 03/12/2026
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"Civil Rights Case Probes Racism Behind Cancer Alley Pollution" [51]

"A major environmental justice case tying slavery’s legacy to Cancer Alley reached a new phase after a judge rejected defendants’ motion to dismiss last month."

Chemicals [44]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: DeSmog [53], 03/12/2026
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40% Of Produce From Nation’s Largest Supplier Contains ‘Forever’ Pesticides [54]

"Nearly 40% of nonorganic fruits and vegetables grown in California contain traces of pesticides that are also PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” according to a new investigation."

Agriculture [43]
Chemicals [44]
Consumer [55]
Environmental Health [45]
Food [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [56]
Source: CNN [57], 03/12/2026
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"Zeldin Disciplined EPA Dissenters After Ethics Office Found No ‘Concern’" [58]

"Ethics staff at EPA found last summer that employees who signed an open dissent letter were within their rights to do so, internal emails show. Nevertheless, the agency suspended most and fired some, a controversial move seen as silencing their criticism and is now being challenged by litigation."

Activism [59]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [49]
People & Population [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [60], 03/12/2026
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"Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — but Also to Coal" [61]

"Environmentalists say the war’s effects on oil and gas prices are an argument for countries to get off fossil fuels. But the reality is likely to be messier."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [45]
Military [39]
Pollution [33]
Public [16]
Middle East [40]
Source: NYTimes [62], 03/12/2026
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Human Waste Backing Up In Basements Shows US Infrastructure Problems [63]

"At least 18.7 million people are served by one of roughly 1,000 utilities that are in serious violation of pollution limits. At least 2.7 million live with a system that violated federal clean water rules continually over the last three years, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data."

Consumer [55]
Disasters [64]
Environmental Health [45]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [33]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [65], 03/12/2026
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"RFK Jr.’s Advisers Had A Plan To Target Covid Shots. Then It Fell Apart." [66]

"A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some Republicans warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage the party in the midterms."

Environmental Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Science [67]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [68], 03/12/2026
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“Report Card” Measures Congress Members’ Commitment To Wildlife Conservation [69]

"Defenders of Wildlife released its 2025 Conservation Report Card for the 119th Congress, measuring members’ commitment to upholding federal laws that protect wildlife conservation during its first session."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [13]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: National Parks Traveler [70], 03/12/2026
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