EJToday: Top Headlines

"White House Nominates Energy Attorney Laura Swett To FERC Seat" [9]

"President Donald Trump nominated energy attorney Laura Swett to fill Chair Mark Christie’s term-limited seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [16], 06/04/2025
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Deep Cuts Erode Basics Of US Public Health System, Threaten Worse To Come [17]

"Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee."

Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [22], 06/04/2025
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"Why Trump’s Push For ‘Gold-Standard Science’ Has Researchers Alarmed" [23]

"Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research."

Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [26]
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [30], 06/04/2025
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He Built Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He May Lead the Forest Service. [31]

"Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property."

Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [33], 06/04/2025
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As Summer Approaches, Jersey Shore Towns Confront Sea Level Rise [34]

"“Sunny day” flooding is now a thing down the shore, where the tides have risen at twice the global average. Sooner or later, “we’re not going to be able to protect everything everywhere,” one state official says."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Infrastructure [36]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [21]
Planning & Growth [38]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 06/04/2025
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"Interior To Reverse Biden Ban On Drilling In Alaska" [42]

"The Trump administration announced Monday it is moving ahead with plans to reopen millions of acres of undisturbed public land to oil and gas drilling, amid a visit by top officials to Alaska this week." "The plan would open up 11 million acres to drilling and remove conditions, including protections for sensitive ecological areas, on oil and gas leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska."

Biodiversity [43]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [37]
Wildlife [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
Source: E&E News [45], 06/03/2025
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"Inside EPA’s Backdoor Bid To Stop Regulating Climate Pollution" [46]

"EPA is expected to soon argue that the U.S. power sector doesn’t contribute “significantly” to climate change — a bid that could give the agency cover to not regulate planet-warming emissions from a wide range of sources."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [47], 06/03/2025
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Worry Swirls Over Cuts To Key Federal Agencies As Hurricane Season Begins [48]

"With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to hurricanes."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [49], 06/03/2025
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Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar [50]

"US renewables stand to lose big in a trade war, but the sting extends to oil and other energy industries, say researchers from Wood Mackenzie."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 06/03/2025
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"A Court Debates Whether a Climate Lawsuit Threatens National Security" [53]

"Two teams of high-powered lawyers clashed this week in Charleston, S.C., over a global-warming question with major implications: Do climate lawsuits against oil companies threaten national security, as President Trump has claimed?"

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [54]
Pollution [51]
Science [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [55], 06/03/2025
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"Alberta's Wildfires Disrupt Some 7% Of Canada's Oil Production" [56]

"Wildfires burning in Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta have affected more than 344,000 barrels per day of oil sands production, or about 7% of the country's overall crude oil output, according to Reuters calculations."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Forests [57]
Public [14]
Canada [58]
Source: Reuters [59], 06/03/2025
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"Trump Touts US Steel-Nippon Steel Deal That Could Result In More Coal" [60]

"The Japanese steelmaker has pledged to extend the life of U.S. Steel’s dirty blast furnaces if Trump greenlights a deal, potentially locking in decades of pollution."

Air [61]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Canary Media [62], 06/03/2025
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Chinese Banks Pour Billions Into Commodities From the World’s Rainforests [63]

"Chinese banks have become the biggest international funders of companies that trade in goods linked to deforestation, a trend that could further imperil the world’s most climate-critical forests, environmental advocates say."

Biodiversity [43]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [14]
International [64]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 06/03/2025
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Colossal Cloud Of Sahara Dust Smothers The Caribbean En Route To The US [66]

"A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States."

Air [61]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [51]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [64]
Africa [67]
Source: AP [68], 06/03/2025
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"Trump Admin Faces Legal Action Over Federal Cuts’ Impact on Manatees" [69]

"An environmental group filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue over staffing concerns at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, established specifically to protect the sea cows."

Biodiversity [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [37]
Water & Oceans [39]
Wildlife [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 06/03/2025
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