EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting" [9]

"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 [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
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Pollution [16]
Science [17]
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National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 04/14/2025
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"Layoffs And Funding Delays Could Slow Fight Against Lead, Experts Say" [21]

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

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [27], 04/14/2025
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"Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers As US Treaty Threat Grows" [28]

"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 [29]
Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Mexico [33]
Source: Reuters [34], 04/14/2025
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African Conservationists Seek More Love For Vultures [35]

"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 [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [36]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [37]
Public [18]
Africa [38]
Source: AP [39], 04/14/2025
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"A Legacy Of Resistance Lives On In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’" [40]

"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 [41]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [42]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [44], 04/14/2025
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Trump EPA Will Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters [45]

"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 [11]
Economy & Business [46]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [36]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: ProPublica [48], 04/11/2025
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Trump BLM Nominee Sgamma Withdraws [49]

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

Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [50], 04/11/2025
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1000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals [51]

"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 [10]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [52], 04/11/2025
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Firm Cancels Plant To Process Plastic Waste To Be Burned In Steel Mills [53]

"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 [54]
Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [46]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [55]
Public [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: EHN [57], 04/11/2025
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Haze Rule Helped Clear Air Over American Parks. Trump EPA Wants To Kill It [58]

"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 [54]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [59], 04/11/2025
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Bayer Asks Supreme Court To Block State Suits About Roundup Cancer Warning [60]

"Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [61], 04/11/2025
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"Water Looms As New Front In Mexico's Trade Negotiations With The U.S" [62]

"Mexican officials are scrambling to come up with a plan to increase the amount of water the country sends to the United States because of growing concern that President Donald Trump could drag a dispute over an 81-year-old water treaty into trade negotiations, according to three sources familiar with the matter."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [11]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mexico [33]
Source: Reuters [63], 04/11/2025
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"See How Rescue Workers Are Trying To Save California’s Poisoned Sea Lions" [64]

"An inside look at the effort to help marine mammals sickened by domoic acid, a neurotoxin in the water resulting from a bloom of algae."

Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [65]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Studies [36]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Wildlife [37]
Public [18]
California [66]
Source: Washington Post [67], 04/11/2025
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Renewables Face Little Regulation In Texas. Lawmaker Wants To Change That. [68]

"The legislation would put new requirements on wind and solar companies that oil and gas companies in Texas do not face."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [69]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: Texas Tribune [70], 04/11/2025
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Smithsonian Could Be Start Of Trump’s Plan To Edit History. Or The End. [71]

"The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do."

Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [36]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [25]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [72]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [73], 04/11/2025
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