EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Admin Redirects Carbon Capture Funds To Prop Up Old Coal Plants" [9]

"The Energy Department is planning to prop up old and shuttered coal plants using more than half a billion dollars that Congress originally set aside to advance carbon capture technologies and improve energy resiliency and environmental protection in rural areas."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [21], 01/20/2026
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How EPA Ethics Officials Cleared Former Industry Insiders To Be Regulators [22]

"Environmental Protection Agency ethics officials have interpreted impartiality guidelines in a way that has allowed several former industry insiders to oversee dramatic changes to chemical regulations, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show."

Agriculture [23]
Biodiversity [24]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [27], 01/20/2026
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"Insured Losses From Wildfire, Storms And Floods Hit Record High Globally" [28]

"Record insured losses from wildfires, storms and floods hit $98 billion globally last year, with L.A. County’s January wildfires the costliest disaster of 2025."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [29]
Economy & Business [30]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [26]
Public [19]
International [31]
Source: LA Times [32], 01/16/2026
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"Pipeline Safety Enforcement Cut In Half In Trump’s First Year" [33]

"The Trump administration slashed pipeline safety enforcement in 2025, bringing about half the average number of cases as in previous years."

Disasters [29]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [34], 01/16/2026
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Trump DOJ Sues California Over Law Keeping Oil Wells From Homes, Schools [35]

"The Trump administration is suing California over a law that creates a 3,200-foot buffer zone between new oil and gas wells and homes, schools, hospitals and parks."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [36]
Source: LA Times [37], 01/16/2026
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"Pentagon To Overhaul Independent Military Newspaper, Calling It ‘Woke’" [38]

"The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.”"

Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Military [40]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [41], 01/16/2026
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"Why Your Power Bill Is Spiking Faster Than A Nearby Data Center’s" [42]

"As electricity prices climb, an unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [26]
Technology [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [43], 01/16/2026
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Scientists Call Near-Record Hot Year Warning Of A Shifting, Dangerous Climate [44]

"Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate that warming could be speeding up, international climate monitoring teams reported."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [31]
Source: AP [45], 01/16/2026
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US Makes $500M Venezuelan Oil Deal; Some Proceeds Headed To Qatari Bank [46]

"The Trump administration has completed its first Venezuelan oil sale, valued at $500 million, an administration official confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. "

Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Military [40]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
South America [47]
Source: The Hill [48], 01/16/2026
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"New York Offshore Wind Project Allowed to Restart Construction — for Now" [49]

"A federal judge issued a temporary injunction, allowing the developer of Empire Wind, an offshore wind project off the coast of Long Island, to resume construction after the Trump administration suspended work there in late December."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 01/16/2026
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"Built To Last: The Enduring Legacy Of The Endangered Species Act" [53]

"As the son of a popular Michigan Congressman, John Dingell, Jr., grew up accustomed to being around power brokers and deal-makers. In 1938, at the tender age of 12, he began working as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives, long before he would succeed his father and launch his own distinguished Congressional career. But it was the time he spent with his father in the woods, not the U.S. Capitol, that had the most lasting impact."

Biodiversity [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Wildlife [54]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: National Parks Traveler [55], 01/16/2026
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"At Detroit Auto Show, Spotlight Dims For EVs" [56]

"At the North American International Auto Show, tires squeal as gearheads put shiny new vehicles through their paces on a pair of indoor tracks that sprawl across the event space. One of those tracks used to be set aside exclusively for electric vehicles as U.S. automakers sought to quickly build out the cars of the future."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [18]
Transportation [57]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [58], 01/16/2026
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"FBI Executes Search Warrant At Washington Post Reporter’s Home" [59]

"The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials."

Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [60], 01/15/2026
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Kitchen Countertop Workers Are Dying. Lawmakers Want To Ban Their Suits [61]

"An epidemic of a deadly lung disease among hundreds of workers who cut kitchen and bathroom countertops has regulators on opposite sides of the country considering two drastically different responses this week."

Air [62]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [17]
Technology [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [64], 01/15/2026
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"What A Fracking-Waste Dispute Says About Ohio’s Energy Double Standard" [65]

"Ohio is letting the oil and gas industry put more toxic waste underground despite community concerns — even as the state defers to local opponents of clean energy."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [66]
Source: Canary Media [67], 01/15/2026
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