EJToday: Top Headlines

"News Outlets Urge White House To Reverse Ban On Associated Press" [9]

"Earlier this week dozens of news organizations signed two separate letters to the White House that urged the Trump administration to reverse a policy barring Associated Press journalists from official events."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 02/21/2025
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"Burgum Promises To Hire 5,000 Temporary Park Workers" [16]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended his firing of more than 1,000 park rangers as an effort to shrink government to the “right size,” in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday."

Biodiversity [17]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Politics [10]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [20], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters" [21]

"Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [28], 02/21/2025
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EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online [29]

"Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Infrastructure [31]
Technology [32]
Transportation [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 02/21/2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets [35]

"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Europe [37]
Source: DeSmog [38], 02/21/2025
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Michigan Appeals Court Upholds Permits For Great Lakes Pipeline Tunnel [39]

"Enbridge Energy’s plans to build a protective tunnel around an aging pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes can continue, a Michigan appeals court ruled."

Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [40]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Canada [42]
Source: AP [43], 02/21/2025
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"Trump’s Funding Freeze Is Wreaking Havoc On Climate Science" [44]

"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [45]
Science [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [46]
Source: Grist [47], 02/21/2025
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"FEMA Email: Firings Will Affect ‘Majority Of Our Staff’" [48]

"After firing 200 probationary employees this weekend, FEMA was directed “to make a list” of anyone who worked on climate or equity."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [49], 02/21/2025
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [50]

"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."

Climate Change [22]
Diversity [51]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 02/21/2025
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"Seagrass Gardening" [53]

"From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide."

Biodiversity [17]
Climate Change [22]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Revelator [54], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls" [55]

"President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to help finance repairs to mass transit."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [56]
Transportation [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [57], 02/20/2025
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"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs" [58]

"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta” of environmental laws."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [45]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [59], 02/20/2025
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Trump Clamps Down On Independent Agencies’ Power [60]

"President Donald Trump is expanding White House control over independent agencies in a move his critics view as an alarming power grab."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [61], 02/20/2025
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"Climate Advocacy Groups File Two Lawsuits Against Trump Administration" [62]

"Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration. Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal."

Activism [63]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [64], 02/20/2025
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"Washington Post Backs Out Of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ Ad Order" [65]

"The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [66], 02/20/2025
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