EJToday: Top Headlines

Storms, Tornadoes Kill 28 In Kentucky, Missouri And Virginia [9]

"Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods, still on edge Sunday for more severe weather ahead after storms that killed more than two dozen people as they swept through parts of the Midwest and South."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
Science [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [20], 05/19/2025
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"Republicans Attack Rules Designed to Keep Workers Safe From Heat" [21]

"A warming climate exposes more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, yet soon after taking office, Donald Trump indefinitely froze a heat illness prevention rule proposed under the previous administration and gutted the only agency that studies workplace health and safety."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 05/19/2025
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Puerto Rico: "Waiting, Often in the Dark, for Frozen E.P.A. Funds" [27]

"The Trump administration is trying to claw back billions in climate grants, including $147 million that could help people in Puerto Rico withstand frequent power failures."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [25]
Technology [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: NYTimes [33], 05/19/2025
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"‘Nobody’s Seen It’: An Elusive Report Could Drive Empire Wind To Collapse" [34]

"A massive New York offshore wind project may soon be abandoned mid-construction due to a mysterious report that few people in Washington appear to have seen except Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, one Fox News reporter, and the scientists who apparently wrote it."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [35]
Infrastructure [30]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: Canary Media [37], 05/19/2025
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15 Years After Deepwater Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs [38]

"Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions. Report authors expect pollution will only increase as the Trump administration opens more waters to drilling."

Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [40]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
International [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 05/19/2025
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"A 20 Percent Electric Bill Surge Tests New Jersey’s Climate Goals" [43]

"On June 1, New Jersey residents will face something they’ve dreaded for months: A nearly 20 percent rate increase in their electricity bills."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 05/19/2025
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"Many On Navajo Nation Blindsided By Hydrogen Pipeline Change" [46]

"The company at the center of a controversial green energy project connecting New Mexico and Arizona has changed plans for a key component: A much-debated pipeline that would have carried climate-friendly hydrogen will instead carry natural gas, and possibly a natural gas-hydrogen blend at a future date. Unlike hydrogen, natural gas, blended or not, contributes to climate warming both in its production and when it is burned for energy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [40]
Technology [31]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
Source: Capital & Main [48], 05/19/2025
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"Trump Orders The Government To Stop Enforcing Rules He Doesn’t Like" [49]

"At the Transportation Department, enforcement of pipeline safety rules has plunged to unprecedented lows since President Donald Trump’s inauguration." "Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have routinely followed."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [50], 05/19/2025
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"How Tech Companies Could Shrink AI's Climate Footprint" [51]

"In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn't shake this existential worry."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Pollution [40]
Technology [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NPR [52], 05/19/2025
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Legal Support For Journalists Helps Meet Rising Threats To Press Freedom [53]

"At a time when attacks on press freedom are heightening, including from the White House and President Donald Trump himself, legal support for journalists is shifting to meet new challenges."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [41]
Source: Poynter [54], 05/19/2025
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"An Effort to Kill Off Lawsuits Against Oil Giants Is Gaining Steam" [55]

"The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it." "Over the past decade, some three dozen states and local governments have sued the biggest oil companies in the world, arguing that the industry hid what it knew about the dangers of global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Science [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [56], 05/16/2025
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"Summer-Like Slug Of Heat Pushes Across Much Of North America" [57]

"One of the most eye-popping late-spring heat waves on record made its way from the Pacific Coast into the center of North America this week. Numerous towns and cities have notched their hottest days and/or warmest nights ever experienced this early in the season, and some have soared to readings unheard of anytime before June."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [58], 05/16/2025
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Ice Roads, a Lifeline For First Nations, Disappearing As Canada Warms [59]

"Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [30]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [25]
Technology [31]
Transportation [60]
Public [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
Canada [62]
Source: Grist [63], 05/16/2025
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"After Disasters, AmeriCorps Was Everywhere. What Happens When It’s Gone?" [64]

"After devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January, a crew of more than 300 young people showed up to help, many of them members of the national service program AmeriCorps." "Elon Musk's DOGE has gutted the 30-year-old national service agency."

Activism [65]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Government [14]
People & Population [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Grist [66], 05/16/2025
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"Trump Admin Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law" [67]

"For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped scores of species — from whooping cranes to red wolves to California condors — claw their way back from the edge of extinction. Its success has made it supremely popular with the American public — far more popular, for instance, than Congress. But now, like all those species it helps protect, the law itself is in grave peril. The Trump administration, Congress, and their allies have launched a barrage of legislation, litigation and regulatory maneuvers in recent months that together could tear the teeth out of our most powerful wildlife conservation statute."

Biodiversity [68]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [69]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Public Domain [70], 05/16/2025
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