EJToday: Top Headlines

"Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End" [9]

"Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: NYTimes [20], 11/24/2025
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"How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders" [21]

"Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [18]
International [19]
Africa [24]
Asia [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 11/24/2025
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"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling" [27]

"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.

The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.
Air [28]
Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: NYTimes [33], 11/24/2025
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"Bird Flu Patient Dies, Marking Second U.S. Fatality In 2025" [34]

"A Washington resident who was the first human case of bird flu in the U.S. since February died on Friday, state health officials said. The person was an older adult with underlying conditions and had been hospitalized since early November with a strain that was previously reported in animals but never before in humans."

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Health [14]
Health [36]
Science [37]
Wildlife [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
International [19]
Source: Washington Post [39], 11/24/2025
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"3 Massive Changes You'll See As The Climate Careens Toward Tipping Points" [40]

"For the past eight years, one of the primary objectives of the annual negotiations has been to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to the temperatures in the late 1800s. ... But that goal is no longer plausible, scientists say. Humanity has not cut planet-warming pollution quickly enough, and the planet will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, likely in the next decade, according to a recent United Nations report."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [14]
People & Population [41]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: NPR [42], 11/24/2025
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"Trump’s Energy Department Revamp Nixes Clean-Energy Offices" [43]

"The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [45]
Pollution [17]
Technology [46]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: Bloomberg [47], 11/24/2025
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"Arid States Prepare for EPA to Walk Away From Their Wetlands" [48]

"Southwestern states are bracing for many of their streams to lose federal safeguards under the EPA’s proposal to lift Clean Water Act protections for many wetlands and waterways across the US. New Mexico, Arizona, California, and other arid states face the brunt of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal because it explicitly excludes streams that only run when it rains—one of the most common kinds of waterways in the desert Southwest."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Technology [46]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
California [49]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [51], 11/24/2025
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Global Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Pollutant Falls Short, UN Says [52]

"Despite the efforts of more than half of all countries worldwide to curb a key climate super-pollutant, a report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme at the U.N. climate summit shows that global methane emissions continue to climb at a troubling pace."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [53], 11/24/2025
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Dumping Mining Waste In Norway’s Arctic Ocean Worries Sámi Fishers, Herders [54]

"Mining company Blue Moon Metals plans to dispose of its mining waste in Repparfjord, a nationally protected salmon fjord in the Norwegian Arctic that Indigenous Sámi fishers rely on."

Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [55]
People & Population [41]
Pollution [17]
Waste [56]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
International [19]
Antarctica & Arctic [57]
Europe [58]
Source: Mongabay [59], 11/24/2025
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Tribal Radio Funding, Future Remain Uncertain After Clawback Of CPB Money [60]

'For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station Zephier manages, has gone digital and no longer needs the records. The station is selling the records, because what it needs is cash."

Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [30]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [41]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [61]
Source: South Dakota Searchlight [62], 11/24/2025
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Calif. Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields [63]

"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [64]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [41]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
California [49]
Source: Capital & Main [65], 11/21/2025
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CDC Site Now Denies Scientific Conclusion That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism [66]

"A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts."

Consumer [67]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [41]
Science [37]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: AP [68], 11/21/2025
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"More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30" [69]

"More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [70]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [41]
Public [18]
International [19]
South America [71]
Source: DeSmog [72], 11/21/2025
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Trump DHS Makes Major Changes To Report It Ordered On FEMA Reforms: Sources [73]

"A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, according to three people familiar with the developments."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [44]
People & Population [41]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: AP [74], 11/21/2025
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"EPA Sees “Greater Uncertainty” With Paraquat Risk Factor, Seeks More Data" [75]

"New data is adding to regulatory concerns about potential human health risks from the weed killer paraquat, leading the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to seek more information from manufacturers of the pesticide."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [64]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [41]
Pollution [17]
Science [37]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: The New Lede [76], 11/21/2025
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