EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump’s Border Wall Plans Threaten Texas Public Hunting Lands" [9]

"Overshadowed by the fight over Big Bend, the White House’s wall expansion could degrade some of the few public hunting opportunities in Texas."

Biodiversity [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [15]
Wildlife [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: Public Domain [20], 04/27/2026
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Fossil-Funded GOPers Claim National Academies Have Conflicts of Interest [21]

"Republican allies of the oil and gas industry question the objectivity of an independent report from the nation’s top science advisers on the harms of human-caused climate change."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [29]
Science [30]
Technology [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 04/27/2026
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Will Changes to US Forest Service Erase a Century of Historical Documents? [33]

"Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s forests could result in the loss of more than a century of critical historical documents, conservationists warn."

Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [34]
Environmental Studies [12]
Forests [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [30]
Wildlife [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 04/27/2026
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Mass. Dumps Sewage Into Waterways. Grassroots Groups Are Fighting Back [37]

"When Ann McDonald went kayaking several weeks after a 2024 rainstorm, she thought the water in the Alewife Brook just outside Boston was safe. Even though sewage discharges into the brook during heavy storms, public health officials recommended waiting just 48 hours after rain for bacteria levels to drop — so when McDonald’s kayak got stuck in debris, she wasn’t concerned about dipping her arms into the water to free herself. Later that afternoon, she fell sick with diarrhea."

Environmental Health [26]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Source: MIT/AP [40], 04/27/2026
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Did Massive Kraken-Like Octopus Prowl Seas During The Age Of Dinosaurs? [41]

"The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
International [43]
Source: AP [44], 04/27/2026
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"Georgia Wildfires Updates: 87 Homes Destroyed, Fires Largely Uncontained" [45]

"The two largest wildfires in southern Georgia have burned tens of thousands of acres combined." "A total of 87 homes had been destroyed as of Thursday by wildfires sweeping across parts of Georgia."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [26]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: WSBTV [47], 04/24/2026
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"A New Bureau Will Oversee Both Offshore Drilling and Seabed Mining" [48]

"The Trump administration is creating a new office that critics say could weaken the environmental oversight of oil drilling and seabed mining in territorial waters." "The new federal office will undo a change made after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Critics say it could reduce environmental oversight."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [49]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [29]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [51], 04/24/2026
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"World Food Systems ‘Pushed To The Brink’ By Extreme Heat, UN Warns" [52]

"Extreme heat is threatening the world’s food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril, the UN has warned."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [26]
Food [53]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
International [43]
Source: Guardian [54], 04/24/2026
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"Corpus Christi Plans to Declare a ‘Water Emergency.’ What Does That Mean?" [55]

"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Health [26]
Infrastructure [56]
People & Population [15]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News/KUT/KEDT [57], 04/24/2026
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Major Livestock and Dairy Firms Make Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping [58]

"A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny."

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [34]
Food [53]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 04/24/2026
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"Feds Fine Durham-Based Energy Efficiency Company $722 Million" [61]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Durham, N.C.-based American Efficient $722 million and ordered the company to repay more than $410 million in “unjust profits” for alleged fraud in its energy efficiency program."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 04/24/2026
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Gas-Fired Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations [63]

"A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [64], 04/24/2026
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Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Dept. Budget Irk Senate Dems [65]

"Although the department’s overall budget will increase in 2027, the amounts dedicated to environmental management, research and renewable energy infrastructure face significant hits."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [29]
Technology [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 04/24/2026
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Waste-To-Energy Plant Proposed For Vuda Point In Fiji Sparks Fierce Backlash [67]

"A proposed waste-to-energy facility in Fiji has been labelled as "waste colonialism" by opponents of the plant. The $900 million venture, backed by Australian billionaire Ian Malouf, would burn hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year at a site built near a popular tourist destination."

Air [68]
Chemicals [49]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [29]
Technology [31]
Waste [69]
Public [17]
Australia & Oceania [70]
Source: Australian ABC [71], 04/24/2026
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"Republicans Had an Earth Day Plan to Limit Species Protections. It Flopped." [72]

"House Republicans had big plans for Earth Day this year: They would pass a bill to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. It didn’t work out that way."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [34]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [73], 04/24/2026
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