EJToday: Top Headlines

"Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution" [9]

"The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient staff and resources."

Agriculture [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [18], 01/26/2026
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Calif. Sues Trump Admin Over Plans To Restart Oil Pipelines Along The Coast [19]

"California sued the federal government Friday for approving a Texas-based company’s plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state’s coast, escalating a fight over the Trump administration’s removal of regulatory barriers to offshore oil drilling for the first time in decades."

Biodiversity [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Wildlife [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [25]
Source: AP [26], 01/26/2026
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In Scotland, Fishing Trawlers Scrape The Seabed Despite Protection Promises [27]

"Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial fishing methods that have devastated seabeds elsewhere. But Philp, who’s fished for more than three decades, has watched conditions deteriorate nearly everywhere else along the coast."

Biodiversity [20]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Europe [29]
Source: AP [30], 01/26/2026
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"Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Alleging Collusion To Stifle Renewables, EVs" [31]

"The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs)."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Technology [34]
Transportation [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [36]
Source: The Hill [37], 01/26/2026
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"Trump Has Ramped Up Lawsuits Against The Media. Here’s Where They Stand." [38]

"While the president has settled some suits, and judges have dismissed others, his court fights continue with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets."

Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [41], 01/26/2026
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"Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean Energy Loans" [42]

"The Energy Department said on Thursday that it was in the process of revising or canceling more than $83 billion in loans for clean energy technologies that had been approved under the Biden administration."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [43], 01/23/2026
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"New U.S. Rule Aims to Speed Up Mining of the Seafloor" [44]

"On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finalized a new rule making it easier for companies to apply for the right to mine the deep ocean floor."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [46]
Source: NYTimes [47], 01/23/2026
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Long-Banned Pesticide Still Showing Up In Long Beach And Other Communities [48]

"A highly toxic pesticide that was banned in California more than two decades ago is still widely used across the state, potentially endangering communities near farm fields and bustling shipyards, according to a new study."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
California [25]
Source: LA Times [50], 01/23/2026
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Hearing Shows Partisan Rift Over GOP Bill To Loosen Chemical Safety Rules [51]

"The deep rift between Democrats and Republicans over the future of the nation’s premier chemical safety law was on full display on Thursday in a hearing designed to kickstart legislation that would allow faster federal approvals for new chemicals. "

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The New Lede [52], 01/23/2026
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"Trump Rollbacks Put Children’s Health at Risk as Pollution Increases" [53]

"New federal decisions remove health protections as Black communities face rising pollution and asthma rates."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Capital B [55], 01/23/2026
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"Water Rule Rollback Stokes Affordability Concerns" [56]

"The Trump administration says the regulation will ease permitting expenses. Utilities say costs could shift to them and their customers."

Consumer [57]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [58], 01/23/2026
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Congress Has Doubts About Trump Admin’s New Wildfire Management Plans [59]

"Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior Department is still forging ahead."

Climate Change [32]
Disasters [60]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [61]
Government [62]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 01/23/2026
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Interpol-Backed Police Arrest Nearly 200 In Amazon Region Gold Mining Sweep [64]

"Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday."

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [61]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [45]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
International [46]
South America [65]
Source: AP [66], 01/23/2026
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Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where Civil War Began [67]

"The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed."

Climate Change [32]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Planning & Growth [68]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [69], 01/23/2026
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‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Storm Forecast From Texas To The Carolinas [70]

"With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads, trees and power lines with devastating ice across a wide expanse of the South."

Climate Change [32]
Disasters [60]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [71], 01/22/2026
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