EJToday: Top Headlines

"White House Proposes Shutting Down Chemical Safety Agency" [9]

"An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters — including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide — would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed language in White House budget documents released Friday."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [18], 06/04/2025
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"Meta Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation Energy" [19]

"Facebook’s parent company Meta locked in 20 years of nuclear power on Tuesday from Constellation Energy to help meet the tech giant’s surging energy demand for artificial intelligence and its other power-intensive computing needs."

Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Technology [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 06/04/2025
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Fearing Radioactive Waste, Pa. Community Fights to Stop Landfill Re-Opening [24]

"For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse. But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears."

Activism [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Waste [28]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 06/04/2025
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Ohio Ban On Settlements To Close ‘Base Load’ Power Plants Dims Clean Energy [31]

"House Bill 15 forbids settlements to close or curtail “base load” power plants, which exclude renewables. The law may pave the way for future fossil-fuel subsidies."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [33]
Source: Canary Media [34], 06/04/2025
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"More Lobbyists Turn Up At Trump’s Interior Department" [35]

"Two more former industry lobbyists have taken up influential positions at President Trump’s Interior Department, Public Domain has learned." "They join a stable of industry insiders at DOI, including DOGE operative Tyler Hassen, who made millions in the energy sector before joining the agency"

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [36]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [38], 06/04/2025
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"White House Nominates Energy Attorney Laura Swett To FERC Seat" [39]

"President Donald Trump nominated energy attorney Laura Swett to fill Chair Mark Christie’s term-limited seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [40], 06/04/2025
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Deep Cuts Erode Basics Of US Public Health System, Threaten Worse To Come [41]

"Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee."

Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [26]
Health [43]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [44]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [45], 06/04/2025
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"Why Trump’s Push For ‘Gold-Standard Science’ Has Researchers Alarmed" [46]

"Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [26]
Environmental Studies [47]
Government [36]
Journalism & Media [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [50], 06/04/2025
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He Built Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He May Lead the Forest Service. [51]

"Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property."

Laws & Regulations [14]
Wildlife [52]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [53], 06/04/2025
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As Summer Approaches, Jersey Shore Towns Confront Sea Level Rise [54]

"“Sunny day” flooding is now a thing down the shore, where the tides have risen at twice the global average. Sooner or later, “we’re not going to be able to protect everything everywhere,” one state official says."

Climate Change [32]
Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [27]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [44]
Planning & Growth [55]
Water & Oceans [56]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [57]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 06/04/2025
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"Interior To Reverse Biden Ban On Drilling In Alaska" [59]

"The Trump administration announced Monday it is moving ahead with plans to reopen millions of acres of undisturbed public land to oil and gas drilling, amid a visit by top officials to Alaska this week." "The plan would open up 11 million acres to drilling and remove conditions, including protections for sensitive ecological areas, on oil and gas leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska."

Biodiversity [60]
Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
Wildlife [52]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
Source: E&E News [62], 06/03/2025
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"Inside EPA’s Backdoor Bid To Stop Regulating Climate Pollution" [63]

"EPA is expected to soon argue that the U.S. power sector doesn’t contribute “significantly” to climate change — a bid that could give the agency cover to not regulate planet-warming emissions from a wide range of sources."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [64], 06/03/2025
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Worry Swirls Over Cuts To Key Federal Agencies As Hurricane Season Begins [65]

"With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to hurricanes."

Climate Change [32]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [44]
Water & Oceans [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [66], 06/03/2025
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Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar [67]

"US renewables stand to lose big in a trade war, but the sting extends to oil and other energy industries, say researchers from Wood Mackenzie."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 06/03/2025
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"A Court Debates Whether a Climate Lawsuit Threatens National Security" [69]

"Two teams of high-powered lawyers clashed this week in Charleston, S.C., over a global-warming question with major implications: Do climate lawsuits against oil companies threaten national security, as President Trump has claimed?"

Climate Change [32]
Environmental Politics [26]
Journalism & Media [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [70]
Pollution [15]
Science [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [71], 06/03/2025
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