EJToday: Top Headlines

7 Trillion Tons: "Climate Change Is Shrinking Glaciers Faster Than Ever" [9]

"Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [15], 02/24/2025
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"Trump’s Funding Freeze Creates Chaos and Financial Distress for Farmers" [16]

"Efforts to transition farms to regenerative agriculture are stalled, and the path forward is unclear."

Agriculture [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Civil Eats [20], 02/24/2025
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Staff At Some Agencies Instructed Not To Speak To Congress, Says Democrat [21]

"Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent several letters Thursday to various federal agency heads seeking answers regarding directives banning employees from speaking to Congress."

Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [26], 02/24/2025
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"Cuts To U.S. Weather And Climate Research Could Put Public Safety At Risk" [27]

"One month into the new Trump administration, firings of scientists and freezes to U.S. research funding have caused an unprecedented elimination of scientific expertise from the federal government. Proposed and ongoing cuts to agencies like the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, could hobble efforts to keep Americans safe during and after disasters."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Economy & Business [18]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [30]
Science [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [32], 02/24/2025
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Fla. Plan to Build Road With Radioactive Waste Prompts Suit Against the EPA [33]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [37]
Pollution [38]
Transportation [39]
Waste [40]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 02/24/2025
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Trump Wants the Federal Government to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations [43]

"The Trump administration has directed a federal agency to disconnect its electric vehicle charging stations, part of the president’s agenda to roll back progress on EVs and clean energy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [36]
Transportation [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 02/24/2025
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"Trump Administration Drops Work On Stronger Building Codes For Disasters" [46]

"For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, the Trump Administration has ordered that to stop, according to people involved with the work."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Planning & Growth [47]
Technology [48]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NPR [49], 02/24/2025
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"Trump’s Lawsuit Barred By The First Amendment, Pollster’s Team Argues" [50]

"Lawyers for J. Ann Selzer, a veteran Iowa pollster, have issued a scathing response to President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a poll that showed him trailing Kamala Harris in Iowa days before the 2024 election, arguing that her polls are a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment."

Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [51], 02/24/2025
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"H5N1 Bird Flu Found In Four Southern California Rats" [52]

"Rats in Riverside County are the latest mammal species to be infected with H5N1 bird flu. Identification of virus in rats raises concerns about potential infection pathways to people and their pets"

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [53]
Environmental Health [35]
Wildlife [54]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [55]
Source: LA Times [56], 02/24/2025
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"News Outlets Urge White House To Reverse Ban On Associated Press" [57]

"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 [19]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [58], 02/21/2025
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"Burgum Promises To Hire 5,000 Temporary Park Workers" [59]

"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 [53]
Consumer [60]
Environmental Politics [19]
Natural Resources [29]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [61], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters" [62]

"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 [10]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [23]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [63], 02/21/2025
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EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online [64]

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

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Infrastructure [36]
Technology [48]
Transportation [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 02/21/2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets [66]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Science [31]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Europe [67]
Source: DeSmog [68], 02/21/2025
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Michigan Appeals Court Upholds Permits For Great Lakes Pipeline Tunnel [69]

"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 [28]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [38]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Canada [70]
Source: AP [71], 02/21/2025
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