EJToday: Top Headlines

"Former CDC Leaders Slam RFK Jr For Endangering Americans’ Health" [9]

"Nine former officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s leadership of the US health and human services department is “unlike anything our country has ever experienced” and “unacceptable”.

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [14]
Science [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [18], 09/02/2025
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Labor Day Swimmers Face Fecal Contamination At Beaches Along US Coastline [19]

"Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste. The advisories typically discourage beachgoers from going in the water because the bacteria can cause gastrointestinal illness, rashes and nausea."

Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [24], 09/02/2025
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"Shrinking Post-Katrina Levees Need $1B In Upgrades" [25]

"Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [26]
Infrastructure [20]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: E&E News [28], 09/02/2025
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Chagas Disease, Once Mostly Abroad, Now Established In Calif., Southern US [29]

"California has the largest number of people in the U.S. infected with Chagas disease — between 70,000 and 100,000. Many people do not know they are ill until they have a heart attack or stroke."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Health [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: LA Times [30], 09/02/2025
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"‘Forever Chemicals’ Detected In More NC Drinking Water, EPA Data Shows" [31]

"New EPA data shows PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in 200 more drinking water systems nationwide, including Durham and Fayetteville, as NC utilities work to remove them."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: WRAL [32], 09/02/2025
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Trump Cuts To Climate Satellites Will Make Weather Prediction Harder [33]

"The Trump administration is scrapping satellite observations of Earth that officials say go beyond the essential task of predicting the weather."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [34], 09/02/2025
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Trump DOT Cancels $679 Million For Offshore Wind Projects As Industry Reels [35]

"The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [38], 09/02/2025
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"Internal Emails Reveal Interior’s Empire Wind Deliberations" [39]

"The messages show the Trump administration included offshore wind foes in the push to cancel permitted projects."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [20]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [41], 09/02/2025
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National Weather Service Applicants Must Explain How They Agree With Trump [42]

"As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda if hired."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [43], 09/02/2025
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"The Ecological Benefits Of Far-Ranging Bison Herds" [44]

"Bison once moved across North America in herds that blackened the landscape in all directions, in numbers estimated not in the hundreds but in the tens of thousands."

Agriculture [45]
Biodiversity [46]
Environmental Politics [13]
Wildlife [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [48]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [49]
Source: National Parks Traveler [50], 09/02/2025
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"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [51]

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [52]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [53]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [54], 08/29/2025
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RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources [55]

"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [56]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [52]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [57]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [53]
Pollution [22]
Science [15]
Technology [40]
Waste [58]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: CNN [59], 08/29/2025
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"How Homeless Residents Nationwide Suffer The Effects Of Hotter Summers" [60]

"When the weather warms up in Connecticut, Clarence Braun and his wife, Holly, park their Mercury Grand Marquis in the shade or ride around with the windows down trying to cool off."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [52]
People & Population [53]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [61]
Source: NPR [62], 08/29/2025
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"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All." [63]

"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [56]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [52]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [53]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [64]
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ [65], 08/29/2025
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Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy [66]

"When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. "We're on an island, and there's one road, and everybody that lived south of that road lost everything — they lost their electricity, internet, television, phones," says Cindy Sweat, the general manager of KSTK, the community's public broadcaster. What was left, Sweat says, was the radio."

Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [52]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [20]
Journalism & Media [67]
People & Population [53]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [68]
Source: NPR [69], 08/29/2025
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