EJToday: Top Headlines

"National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science" [9]

"The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 08/08/2025
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DOE Boss Says Trump Admin May Alter Past National Climate Assessments [17]

"Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said officials are reviewing previously published National Climate Assessments and may update them. Earlier this year, the Trump administration fired more than 400 scientists working on the next federal climate report and removed the website that housed the previous ones."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [20]
Science [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: LA Times [21], 08/08/2025
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"RFK Jr. Announces End To Some mRNA Contracts, Including For Flu, Covid" [22]

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday a crackdown on mRNA vaccine technology and research to develop it, following months of pressure from anti-vaccine activists."

Consumer [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [25]
Health [26]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [20]
Science [13]
Technology [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [28], 08/08/2025
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After Deep Cuts, National Weather Service Gets OK To Fill Up To 450 Jobs [29]

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing, the Trump administration confirmed Wednesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [25]
People & Population [20]
Science [13]
Technology [27]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [31], 08/08/2025
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Federal Judge Orders Chemours To Immediately Stop Polluting Ohio River [32]

"A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant."

Chemicals [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: Mountain State Spotlight [36], 08/08/2025
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"Ohio Finally Ends Subsidies For Two Scandal-Linked Coal Plants" [37]

"After six years and more than a half billion dollars in consumer costs, Ohio utility customers will no longer have to subsidize two 1950s-era coal plants in the state."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [38]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: Canary Media [41], 08/08/2025
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As Mine Nears Approval in Ariz., Residents Fear It’s Affecting Their Wells [42]

"South32’s Hermosa mine would be the first approved under a new, fast-tracked process. The company recently notified local homeowners that it could impact their wells."

Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Natural Resources [43]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 08/08/2025
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"France’s Top Court Strikes Down Pesticide Clause In Farming Law" [46]

"France’s highest court on Thursday blocked a key part of a contentious farming law that would have brought back a banned pesticide."

Agriculture [47]
Biodiversity [48]
Chemicals [33]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [34]
Wildlife [49]
Public [14]
Europe [50]
Source: AP [51], 08/08/2025
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"Judge Stops Hazardous Waste Shipments To Michigan Landfill From Five States" [52]

"A judge has stopped government contractors in five states from sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill after a year of legal challenges by Detroit-area communities concerned about possible environmental impacts."

Chemicals [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [34]
Waste [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: AP [54], 08/08/2025
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"Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species" [55]

"Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the largest fish has caused genetic changes that favor slower growth and smaller size."

Biodiversity [48]
Fish & Fisheries [56]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
International [57]
Europe [50]
Source: YaleE360 [58], 08/08/2025
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Trump Admin Memo Urges Nations To Reject Plastic Production Caps In Treaty [59]

"The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that includes limits on plastic production and plastic chemical additives at the start of U.N. plastic treaty talks in Geneva, according to a memo and communications seen by Reuters."

Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [38]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [57]
Source: Reuters [60], 08/07/2025
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Document Shows Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974 [61]

"Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign."

Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [34]
Waste [53]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [57]
Source: DeSmog [62], 08/07/2025
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Denial Of Gray Wolf Protections Violated Endangered Species Act, Judge Rules [63]

"The Fish and Wildlife Service will have to reconsider whether gray wolves in the western United States merit Endangered Species Act protections in light of Republican-backed efforts to aggressively cull the animals in the Northern Rockies, a federal judge ruled Tuesday."

Agriculture [47]
Biodiversity [48]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [43]
Wildlife [49]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Public Domain [64], 08/07/2025
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"The Air Conditioning Dilemma: Cooling Homes Heats The Planet" [65]

"As temperatures soar around much of the world, people are cranking up the air conditioning, but blasting icy air into buildings fuels global warming, which increases demand for more cooling, creating a vicious circle."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [34]
Technology [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [57]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [66], 08/07/2025
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"At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators" [67]

"The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by a number of environmental hazards like hurricanes, intense heat and even wildfires."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [68]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [43]
People & Population [20]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [69]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [70]
Source: NYTimes [71], 08/07/2025
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