EJToday: Top Headlines

"Just 9 Percent Think FEMA Should Be Eliminated: Survey" [9]

"Very few Americans say in a new poll that it’s a good idea to scrap the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) entirely, a position President Trump has embraced in recent months."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [17], 07/17/2025
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Trump Axes NOAA Tool To Help Communities Prepare For Future Rainfall [18]

"The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current and former federal officials familiar with the decision, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [13]
Infrastructure [19]
Planning & Growth [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [22], 07/17/2025
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Removing Aging Dams Could Bolster Communities Facing Extreme Weather: Report [23]

"Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Infrastructure [19]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [26], 07/17/2025
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Two Men Behind Felling Of Sycamore Gap Tree Jailed For More Than Four Years [27]

"Two men who carried out a “moronic mission” to fell one of the most loved and photographed trees in the UK have been jailed."

Forests [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [15]
Europe [30]
Source: Guardian [31], 07/17/2025
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"Warming Rivers Prompt Fishing Restrictions In Western Montana" [32]

"A dozen rivers are subject to “hoot owl” restrictions on afternoon fishing or all-out closures as biologists grapple with warming rivers and meager streamflows."

Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [33]
Source: Montana Free Press [34], 07/17/2025
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"Senate Set To Debate Cuts To NPR, PBS and Foreign Aid" [35]

"The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President Trump. They're aimed at clawing back $1.1 billion previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with $7.9 billion dollars earmarked for international efforts to combat famine and disease."

Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NPR [38], 07/16/2025
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"House Republicans Buck Trump On NOAA Cuts" [39]

"House Republican appropriators would cut NOAA by nearly $400 million for fiscal 2026, but they’re rejecting deeper reductions proposed by the White House."

Biodiversity [40]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [43], 07/16/2025
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"Texas Failed To Spend Federal Aid For Disaster Protection" [44]

"In the past decade, as extreme weather killed nearly 700 people in Texas, the state relinquished $225 million in federal grant money that it was supposed to spend on protecting residents from disasters, federal records show." "States across the country have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other disasters."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [46]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Source: E&E News [48], 07/16/2025
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"The Nightmare Mess Left by One Closed Pulp Mill" [49]

"Documents expose the huge cleanup BC faces for Port Alice and 11 more shut mills. Will new projects also slip off the hook?"

Biodiversity [40]
Chemicals [50]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [46]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [42]
Waste [51]
Public [15]
Canada [52]
Source: The Tyee [53], 07/16/2025
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Enviros Sue EPA To Reassess A Toxic Chemical Used At A Pa. Oil Refinery [54]

"Sandwiched between the Delaware River and closely spaced homes, the Monroe Energy oil refinery in Trainer exemplifies the need for better regulation of a dangerous chemical used around the country to produce high-octane gasoline, environmental groups said." "Monroe Energy in Delaware County is among more than 40 still using hydrofluoric acid, despite safer alternatives"

Activism [55]
Chemicals [50]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [42]
Technology [56]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Pennsylvania Capital-Star [57], 07/16/2025
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Humans Are Wiping Out Wetlands That Life Depends On, New Report Says [58]

"Wetlands provide freshwater, food, storm protection and climate regulation. Yet over the last 50 years, humans have destroyed one-fifth of them." "A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that underpin all life on Earth."

Agriculture [59]
Biodiversity [40]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [60]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [61]
Public [15]
International [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 07/16/2025
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New Invasive Mussel Threatens Calif. Water Supplies. Can State Stop Its Spread? [64]

"Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected. “There’s just too many boats and too many people out there,” one warden said."

Biodiversity [40]
Environmental Health [36]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Infrastructure [19]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [65]
Source: CalMatters [66], 07/16/2025
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"Critics Fear Trump Will Use Flawed DOE Report To Push Pro-Coal Agenda" [67]

"Grid experts say DOE’s new forecast of major blackout risks by 2030 misuses data to justify the Trump administration’s push to force dirty plants to stay open."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [42]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [68], 07/16/2025
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"Killer In The Nest: How Young Storks Are Being Strangled By Plastic" [69]

"Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species too, say experts in the US, UK and Argentina"

Biodiversity [40]
Consumer [70]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [42]
Waste [51]
Wildlife [61]
Public [15]
International [62]
Europe [30]
Source: Guardian [71], 07/16/2025
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How Removing Old New England Dams Is Opening Rivers To New Wildlife [72]

"The silvery water of the Royal River glistens as sunlight strikes its surface on an overcast afternoon. The modest waterway flows an easy 39 miles from southern Maine’s Sabbathday Lake to the Atlantic coast at Casco Bay, attracting kayakers, paddleboarders, and great blue heron."

Activism [55]
Biodiversity [40]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Infrastructure [19]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [73]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [74], 07/16/2025
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