EJToday: Top Headlines

"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research" [9]

"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Government [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Science [20]
Technology [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [25], 04/14/2025
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"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs" [26]

"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."

Biodiversity [27]
Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [29]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Government [18]
Health [31]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [34]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [36]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [37], 04/14/2025
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Court Allows Suit Alleging Environmental Racism In La. Parish To Proceed [38]

"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."

Activism [39]
Chemicals [28]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [34]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: AP [41], 04/14/2025
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Nations Agree On First-Ever Global Fee On Greenhouse Gases From Shipping [42]

"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [34]
Transportation [43]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
International [44]
Source: AP [45], 04/14/2025
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Oil Company Fined $18 Million For Defying State Orders To Stop Pipeline Work [46]

"The California Coastal Commission today fined an oil company a record $18 million for repeatedly defying orders to stop work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that caused a major oil spill nearly a decade ago."

Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
California [48]
Source: CalMatters [49], 04/14/2025
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"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting" [50]

"The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors."

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [34]
Science [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 04/14/2025
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"Layoffs And Funding Delays Could Slow Fight Against Lead, Experts Say" [52]

"Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [53], 04/14/2025
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"Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers As US Treaty Threat Grows" [54]

"Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Friday."

Agriculture [55]
Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [19]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [56]
Mexico [57]
Source: Reuters [58], 04/14/2025
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African Conservationists Seek More Love For Vultures [59]

"Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. But conservationists in Africa are trying to change that."

Biodiversity [27]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [36]
Public [23]
Africa [60]
Source: AP [61], 04/14/2025
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"A Legacy Of Resistance Lives On In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’" [62]

"On a recent Wednesday night, three flares were raging from the industrial smoke stacks at Norco Shell, so bright they could be seen miles away from the interstate at the Bonnet Carré Spillway. They were my guide to Woodland Plantation in La Place, Louisiana, whose new owners were commemorating the site of the largest enslaved revolt in U.S. history."

Activism [39]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Military [63]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [34]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [64], 04/14/2025
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Trump EPA Will Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters [65]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [34]
Science [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: ProPublica [66], 04/11/2025
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Trump BLM Nominee Sgamma Withdraws [67]

"President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn from consideration."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [68], 04/11/2025
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1000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals [69]

"Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The New Lede [70], 04/11/2025
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Firm Cancels Plant To Process Plastic Waste To Be Burned In Steel Mills [71]

"International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons."

Air [72]
Chemicals [28]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [47]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [34]
Waste [35]
Public [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [73]
Source: EHN [74], 04/11/2025
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Haze Rule Helped Clear Air Over American Parks. Trump EPA Wants To Kill It [75]

"During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze. Today, he said, he can see some 50 miles (80 kilometers) across that same valley to the Cumberland Mountains."

Air [72]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [34]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [76], 04/11/2025
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