EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Michigan Coal Plant Was About To Close. Trump Ordered It To Stay Open." [9]

"The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, and the grid operators responsible for maintaining reliability all agree it’s safe to shut them down."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: Canary Media [20], 05/29/2025
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Md. Advocates Urge Penalties on Gas Firm After False Environmental Claims [21]

"Advocates are ramping up pressure on the Maryland Public Service Commission to penalize Washington Gas Light Company following a March ruling which found that the company misled millions of customers by claiming methane gas was better for the environment than electricity."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 05/29/2025
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Colorado River Is Running Low. Groundwater Looks Even Worse, Study Says. [27]

"The dwindling flow of the Colorado River has alarmed the American West for years, but the water losses happening underground are even worse, according to a new study that uses satellite data to measure groundwater supplies across the Colorado River Basin."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Studies [30]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [33]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [34]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 05/29/2025
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US Peregrine Falcons Thrive In Cities But Struggle With Bird Flu On Coasts [37]

"After rebounding in recent decades due to conservation efforts, the number of once-imperiled peregrine falcons in the U.S. has been dropping again in some places due to the bird flu that has decimated other avian populations in recent years."

Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [40], 05/29/2025
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Friends Complete Murdered Journalist Dom Phillips's Book on The Amazon [41]

"After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete."

Activism [42]
Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [44]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
International [45]
South America [46]
Source: AP [47], 05/29/2025
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"In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution" [48]

"Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech."

Activism [42]
Air [49]
Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [30]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: NYTimes [52], 05/28/2025
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Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands High-Level Job at Interior [53]

"Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a long-time Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020."

Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [54]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Public Domain [55], 05/28/2025
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"Trump’s Tariffs and Tax Bill May Derail U.S. Battery Industry" [56]

"Domestic factories that make batteries to store power to meet America’s rising energy demand depend on Chinese components and federal subsidies."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [57]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [58], 05/28/2025
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Advocates Applaud MAHA Report On Chemical Harms, But Say It Falls Short [59]

"Exposures to pesticides and other chemicals, ultra-processed foods and over-prescription of medications are among the factors contributing to an epidemic of chronic disease in America’s children, according to a government report issued Thursday by the Trump administration’s controversial “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission.'

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [50]
Consumer [60]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [61]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [54]
Pollution [15]
Science [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [62], 05/28/2025
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Pesticide Firms Ask Lawmakers For Immunity From Lawsuits By Sick Farmers [63]

"Ray Bickel spent over a decade driving a truck through giant corn and soybean fields in Clinton County, Iowa, applying pesticides. He says it was good work, while it lasted." “He was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which is blood and bone marrow cancer."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [64]
Source: KWQC [65], 05/28/2025
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"Trump Orders Major Revamp Of Agencies’ Handling Of Scientific Research" [66]

"President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a sweeping overhaul of federal agencies’ handling of scientific research, coupled with a requirement to revisit all Biden-era regulations to ensure that they mesh with the new policy."

Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [61]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [54]
Pollution [15]
Science [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [67], 05/28/2025
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RFK Jr. Threatens To Bar Govt Scientists From Publishing In Medical Journals [68]

"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to stop government scientists from publishing their work in major medical journals on a podcast Tuesday as part of his escalating war on institutions he says are influenced by pharmaceutical companies."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [50]
Consumer [60]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [30]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Politico [69], 05/28/2025
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"EPA Grants Pollution Permit To Gulf Coast Fish Farm" [70]

"A planned fish farm off Florida’s Gulf Coast has received an environmental permit allowing operators to discharge nutrient-laden water from what could be the first commercial-scale saltwater aquaculture operation in the Gulf of Mexico."

Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [71]
Infrastructure [57]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Mexico [72]
Source: E&E News [73], 05/28/2025
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"Trump Forces Showdown Over Nuclear Regulation" [74]

"In his call Friday for a nationwide expansion of new nuclear power plants, President Donald Trump has set up a potentially historic showdown between his authority and the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. standard-setter for nuclear safety for the past half-century."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [57]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [75]
Transportation [76]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [77], 05/28/2025
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"Is Another Locust Invasion Heading For Africa?" [78]

"The United Nations is warning countries in northwest Africa to boost monitoring and begin early control measures as swarms of desert locusts move into the region."

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [38]
Disasters [29]
Food [61]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [54]
Wildlife [39]
Public [17]
Africa [79]
Middle East [80]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [81], 05/28/2025
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