EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals" [9]

"The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America, among other health issues, according to internal emails written by senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
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National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 04/23/2025
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Judge Orders Trump Admin To Rehire Voice Of America And Radio Free Asia Staff [22]

"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Network staff for now, and he said all congressional funding must resume to the outlets, which had been effectively shuttered by the administration."

Economy & Business [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [25]
Source: CBS News [26], 04/23/2025
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Lawyers Get Ready To Pounce On Trump’s Energy Deregulation Moves [27]

"U.S. environmental groups say they are hiring lawyers and preparing for a major legal showdown with President Donald Trump's administration over its rapid-fire and sweeping efforts to sidestep federal regulations on oil, gas and coal development. The preparations will pose a test for the Trump administration’s strategy since January of relying mainly on emergency authorities and executive orders to slash what it views as obstructions to a surge in fossil fuel energy production."

Activism [28]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [31], 04/23/2025
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"HHS Eliminates Program That Helps Firefighters When EVs Burn" [32]

"The firefighter health program was researching firefighters’ chemical exposures in electric vehicle fires — a first step to developing protective equipment."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [34], 04/23/2025
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EPA To Fire More Than 450 Staffers Working On Environmental Justice, DEI [35]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion that they will be fired or reassigned, according to an agency spokesman, as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to reshape the agency."

Environmental Justice [12]
Government [36]
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People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [37], 04/23/2025
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"White House Ousts Top Official In U.S.-Mexico Water Wars" [38]

"The Trump administration on Monday demanded the resignation of the top federal official overseeing a dispute between the United States and Mexico over untreated sewage flowing across the border into California."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [36]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mexico [42]
Source: Washington Post [43], 04/23/2025
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"Burgum Launches Broad Interior Reorganization" [44]

"The Interior Department is moving forward with sweeping reorganization and consolidation efforts that will be overseen by a former member of the Elon Musk-led workforce reduction team."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [36]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [41]
Wildlife [46]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [47], 04/23/2025
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"Zeldin Claims Media Ignored ‘Evidence’ Against Climate Groups" [48]

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin excoriated news outlets Monday for reporting that EPA hasn’t offered evidence to support his assertions that billions of dollars in climate grants are marked by waste, fraud and abuse."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [49], 04/23/2025
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S. Dakota Panel Rejects Permit For $8.9 Billion Carbon Capture Pipeline [50]

"The massive carbon capture pipeline in the Midwest was thrown into uncertainty Tuesday after South Dakota’s Public Utility Commission denied its route permit application."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [51]
Source: AP [52], 04/23/2025
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"In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work" [53]

"A cluster of evangelical groups in the state is pushing for environmental action. Leaders say they’re following the biblical mandate to care for creation."

"The solar panels on the churches were inspired by Scripture.

So were the LED lights throughout the buildings, the electric-vehicle charging stations, the native pollinator gardens and organic food plots, the composting, the focus on consuming less and reusing more.
Activism [28]
Agriculture [39]
Biodiversity [54]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [55]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [56]
Source: NYTimes [57], 04/23/2025
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‘Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet [58]

"Pope Francis’ care for the environment was telegraphed early in his papacy. His chosen name honored St. Francis, the Italian friar who proclaimed “Praise God for all his creatures.” As pope, Francis called for immediate action on climate change and exhorted the world’s Catholics to “better recognize the ecological commitments which stem from our convictions.”"

Biodiversity [54]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [55]
Public [19]
International [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 04/22/2025
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"Wave of Earth Day Protests As Americans Mobilize Against Trump" [60]

"Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”."

Activism [28]
Biodiversity [54]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [61], 04/22/2025
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"Zeldin A ‘No’ On Targeting Climate Groups’ Tax-Exempt Status" [62]

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he does not think the government should broadly reconsider climate advocacy groups’ tax-exempt status." "The EPA administrator also signaled that he was not in a rush to announce reduction-in-force plans, saying,“We’re just trying to get it right.”"

Activism [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [36]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [63], 04/22/2025
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"Indigenous River Campaigner From Peru Wins Prestigious Goldman Prize" [64]

"An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood."

Activism [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [19]
International [25]
Source: Guardian [65], 04/22/2025
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"Trump Touts ‘Clean Coal’ — But Cuts Programs That Protect Miners" [66]

"A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [67]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [68]
Source: Washington Post [69], 04/22/2025
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