EJToday: Top Headlines

"In A First, Renewables Beat Natural Gas On Us Grid Last Month" [9]

"Over the course of March, the nation got more electricity from renewables than it did from natural gas, which is typically the single-largest source of energy on the U.S. grid."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [17], 04/14/2026
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Mamdani Faces Scrutiny on Climate, Parks Budget and Environmental Promises [18]

"During his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani courted votes from environmentalists. He promised to expand green spaces in public schools and equip them with renewable energy, to meet the demands of the city’s building electrification laws and to increase investments in city parks."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 04/14/2026
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Commercial Salmon Fishing To Open In Calif.For The First Time Since 2022 [24]

"Federal fishery managers voted Sunday to open waters off the coast of California to commercial salmon fishing for the first time since 2022, with the population rebounding after wet winters ended a long drought."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [28]
Source: AP [29], 04/14/2026
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"Iran War’s Global Energy Crisis Sharpens China’s Advantage In Clean Tech" [30]

"China is poised to benefit from the Iran war as global energy disruptions accelerate a shift away from fossil fuels and toward clean technologies and renewable power, industries that China dominates, experts say."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Military [32]
Pollution [21]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [33]
Middle East [34]
Source: AP [35], 04/14/2026
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Climate Change Is Outpacing Evolution. Scientists Using DNA To Catch Up [36]

"Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which store vast amounts of carbon and support complex webs of life."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Science [38]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [33]
Source: AP [39], 04/14/2026
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"How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Mission — And the Message — of the E.P.A." [40]

The job of the E.P.A. chief is to protect human health by safeguarding “the air we breathe, the water we drink and land that grows our food,” as the agency’s founding charter puts it, and most administrators have talked about their work in those terms. Mr. Zeldin, though, speaks more about supporting industry and exporting fossil fuels than about protecting the environment."

Chemicals [41]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [43]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Science [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [45], 04/13/2026
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Forecasters Predict Slightly Below-Average 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season [46]

"Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is expecting El Niño to bring a slightly below-average season with 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [47]
Environmental Health [31]
People & Population [48]
Science [38]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Central America & the Caribbean [49]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [50], 04/13/2026
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New Threatened Landscapes Report Will Focus On Erasure Of American History [51]

"The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a national Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced “Erasing American History” as the subject of its annual thematic Landslide report about threatened landscapes and landscape features and issued a call for nominations. As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approaches, the United States is simultaneously also witnessing the erasure of irreplaceable cultural resources that reflect and interpret our shared history."

Consumer [25]
Diversity [52]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [43]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [53]
People & Population [48]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [54]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: National Parks Traveler [55], 04/13/2026
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"A Critical Moment For The Nuclear Safety Policeman" [56]

"The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations is struggling to bring a new wave of nuclear startups into their system." "Several nuclear power startups are balking at joining the industry’s voluntary regulatory body in what could become a major shakeup to plant safety oversight."

Disasters [47]
Environmental Health [31]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [57]
People & Population [48]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [58], 04/13/2026
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"EPA Sets ‘No Surprises’ Science Policy, Reassigns Researchers" [59]

"The Trump administration is tightening its grip over EPA’s scientific enterprise as it prepares to relocate employees from its once esteemed research arm."

Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [43]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [21]
Science [38]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [60], 04/13/2026
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AI Boom Derailed Clean-Air Push In One Of America's Most Polluted Cities [61]

"Trump administration rolled back clean-air rules to support AI-driven electricity demand. St. Louis faces poor air quality and high health costs as coal plants remain online."

Air [62]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [21]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [63], 04/13/2026
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"Plastic Pollution Is Bad Enough. Burning It Can Be Even Worse." [64]

"In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks."

Chemicals [41]
Consumer [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Studies [43]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Waste [65]
Public [15]
International [33]
Source: Undark [66], 04/13/2026
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Communities Wait On Billions In Disaster Funds From Trump Administration [67]

"Placerville, Calif., bears all the markers of a community at risk of a wildfire. The city's rolling hillsides are dense with brush, which dries out during the hot summers. Older homes made of wood, which are more prone to igniting, are dotted throughout."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [47]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [31]
Forests [68]
Government [69]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [48]
Planning & Growth [70]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NPR [71], 04/13/2026
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"Deer Test Positive For Chronic Wasting Disease At Catoctin Mountain Park" [72]

"Two deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland during recent white-tailed deer reduction operations and subsequent disease sampling. This is the first CWD-positive detection at Catoctin Mountain Park."

Biodiversity [37]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [31]
Forests [68]
People & Population [48]
Wildlife [73]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [74]
Source: National Parks Traveler [75], 04/13/2026
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"Why These Chimps Have Been At War For 8 Years" [76]

"The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a different chimp war in the 1970s."

Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [43]
Military [32]
Wildlife [73]
Public [15]
International [33]
Africa [77]
Source: National Geographic [78], 04/13/2026
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