EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA To Prioritize AI, Lobbyists And Staff Cuts In ‘Mission To Traumatize’" [9]

"A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 02/07/2025
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"Trump Dismantles Environmental Justice Team, Staff Put on Leave" [22]

"The EPA on Thursday put 168 employees within its environmental justice office on administrative leave as the Trump administration executes presidential actions to roll back diversity initiatives."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [23], 02/07/2025
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"Where Coal Is Retiring, and Hanging On, in the U.S." [24]

"About 780 coal units, individual generators with a boiler and a turbine capable of producing electricity, have retired since 2000. And more than half of the remaining units are also slated for retirement, according to new data from the Global Energy Monitor, an organization that collects international energy data."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [26], 02/07/2025
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As Trump Purges Climate Data and Web Pages, Groups Scramble To Save Them [27]

"The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it."

Activism [28]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 02/07/2025
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Big Oil’s Huge Spending On Lobbying Hobbled Key California Climate Measures [31]

"One bill that would have required oil companies to help pay for damages from climate-driven disasters failed and another that would levy heavy fines on refineries that release toxic air contaminants was watered down."

Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
California [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 02/07/2025
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"Trump Administration Tells States Billions In EV Charger Money Is On Hold" [35]

"The Trump administration on Thursday told states it was blocking money for electric vehicle chargers, including $71 million for Washington, one of the latest steps by the White House to halt Biden-era funding. The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, known as NEVI, was set to dole out a total of $5 billion to states to build charging networks along highways. The Federal Highway Administration previously approved states’ plans for using the money."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Transportation [36]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington State Standard [37], 02/07/2025
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"‘Lifesaving’ Climate Programs Are On Hold As Musk Targets USAID" [38]

"As the Trump administration moves to shutter international humanitarian aid efforts, a host of environmental and climate programs have also been impacted."

Agriculture [39]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [40]
People & Population [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Source: Washington Post [43], 02/07/2025
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"Scientists On Alert As NOAA Restricts Contact With Foreign Nationals" [44]

"Staff members at a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been told this week to stop all contact with foreign nationals, including on international treaties and seafood catch limits, stoking confusion and fear among government scientists as the Trump administration begins to shape its vision for their work."

Biodiversity [45]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [47], 02/07/2025
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"CDC Scientific Report Resumes Publication After Unprecedented Pause" [48]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publishing its weekly scientific report Thursday after an unprecedented pause, but information about the bird flu virus that was supposed to appear remained on hold even as the outbreak spreads."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Health [49]
Journalism & Media [29]
Science [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Source: Washington Post [51], 02/07/2025
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Dirty Toilets, Grumpy Visitors And Vandalism: This Summer In The Parks [52]

"National park visitors could be confronted by "chaos" this summer if the Trump administration does not lift its hold on season hirings — soon —, says former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis."

Consumer [53]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [54]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [55]
People & Population [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: National Parks Traveler [56], 02/07/2025
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DOGE Staffers Enter NOAA Headquarters And Incite Reports Of Cuts And Threats [57]

"Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Government [58]
Science [50]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [59], 02/06/2025
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"Republicans Move To Repeal Lead Limits Imposed By Biden-Era Rules" [60]

"Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are attempting to repeal the Biden administration’s groundbreaking rules that require all the country’s lead pipes to be replaced over the next 13 years and lower the limit on lead in water."

Chemicals [61]
Consumer [53]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [62], 02/06/2025
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"New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration" [63]

"New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Natural Resources [55]
Science [50]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 02/06/2025
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Burgum Directive Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels [65]

"National monuments, migratory birds, endangered and threatened species: Some of the nation’s most vulnerable natural resources are in jeopardy after Doug Burgum issued—on his first full day as secretary of the Department of the Interior—a seven-page directive weakening their protections to further fossil fuel development."

Biodiversity [45]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [55]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [66]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 02/06/2025
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"Exxon Is Quietly Planning A New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant In Texas" [68]

"Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution."

Chemicals [61]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [69]
Source: Grist [70], 02/06/2025
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