EJToday: Top Headlines

"Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier" [9]

"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 [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 01/29/2026
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Court Orders Dutch Govt To Protect Caribbean Island From Climate Change [17]

"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 [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
Europe [20]
Source: AP [21], 01/29/2026
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"EPA To Roll Back ‘Good Neighbor’ Rule On Downwind Smokestack Pollution [22]

"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 [23]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: AP [27], 01/29/2026
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"Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom" [28]

"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 [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: WIRED [29], 01/29/2026
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King Charles' Documentary Sets Out His Philosophy For Saving The Planet [30]

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 [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Science [33]
Public [14]
International [34]
Europe [20]
Source: AP [35], 01/29/2026
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"The Trump Administration Has Secretly Rewritten Nuclear Safety Rules" [36]

"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 [37]
Economy & Business [38]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NPR [41], 01/28/2026
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"Syngenta Settles Bellwether US Trial Over Paraquat Links To Parkinson’s" [42]

"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 [43]
Chemicals [44]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: The New Lede [45], 01/28/2026
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"More History Exhibits Pulled From National Parks, Including Grand Canyon" [46]

"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 [11]
Environmental Studies [47]
Government [48]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Washington Post [49], 01/28/2026
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‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves Closer To Midnight Amid Nukes, Climate Change And AI [50]

"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 [31]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
Technology [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [34]
Source: AP [52], 01/28/2026
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"The ‘Biggest Tragedy’ of Trump’s Gutting of the National Park Service" [53]

"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 [11]
Government [48]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [54]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 01/28/2026
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Appeals Court Blocks EPA Motion to Strike Some Drinking Water PFAS Regs [56]

"A federal appeals court has rejected the EPA’s motion to strike portions of the agency’s Biden-era regulations for PFAS in drinking water."

Chemicals [44]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [54]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Circle of Blue [57], 01/28/2026
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Despite Low Interest in Drilling, USFS ‘Streamlines’ Oil/Gas Leasing Rules [58]

"The U.S. Forest Service announced revisions to its oil and gas leasing rules today that the agency promises “modernizes and streamlines” the permitting process to drill for fossil fuels in the nation’s forests and grasslands. The changes prompted the ire of environmental groups who say it is the latest in a year’s worth of attacks on public lands protections by President Trump’s administration."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [59]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 01/28/2026
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Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument Under Threat, This Time From Congress [61]

"A recent, non-binding opinion from the Government Accountability Office may pave the way for Congress to begin rescinding management plans for national monuments across the country, environmentalists and experts say, potentially leading to protected areas being further opened up for resource extraction. And Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is yet again at the center of the renewed threats to the nation’s monuments."

Biodiversity [62]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [59]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [63]
Wildlife [64]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 01/28/2026
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"Fourth Wind Farm Blocked By Trump Is Allowed To Resume Construction" [66]

"A fourth offshore wind project halted by the Trump administration was temporarily allowed to resume construction on Tuesday, marking yet another legal setback for the White House on the issue."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Technology [51]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [67]
Source: The Hill [68], 01/28/2026
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Winter Olympics Must Adapt To Warming Future, Scientists Say" [69]

[C]limate change has decreased snowpack by as much as 20 percent per decade in parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This trend is already causing trouble for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, global events reliant on snow to succeed. In a landmark 2024 study, researchers found that potential host locations are dwindling as temperatures warm."

Climate Change [18]
Government [48]
Infrastructure [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 01/28/2026
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