EJToday: Top Headlines

"Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently" [9]

"Scientists and other experts were preparing a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature in the United States when President Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-page draft for public comment and scientific review."

Biodiversity [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 03/06/2026
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Pacific Palisades Architect Builds Fire-Resistant Home Like A Sexy Tank [15]

"At first glance, it looks like nothing more than a charming Spanish-revival, quintessentially Californian home — but this Pacific Palisades rebuild is constructed like a tank."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [17]
Forests [18]
Technology [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [20]
Source: LA Times [21], 03/06/2026
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"Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Plan to End NYC Congestion Pricing" [22]

"A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down New York’s congestion pricing program are unlawful."

Air [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [28]
Pollution [29]
Transportation [30]
Public [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 03/06/2026
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"An Oil Company Quietly Dug A Surprisingly Deep Geothermal Well" [32]

"Oxy drilled four miles down in Colorado, and did so quickly — a promising development for the geothermal industry."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Natural Resources [33]
Technology [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [34]
Source: Colorado Public Media [35], 03/06/2026
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"Clean Energy Dominates Plans For New U.S. Power Plants This Year" [36]

"Each year around this time, the federal government releases its expectations for new power plant construction. The latest data drop shows clean energy is going to dominate this year, just as it has for many years running. Even as the Trump administration has employed novel and at times legally dubious means to block renewable energy growth, the power sector keeps choosing clean energy again and again — attracted by its low costs, speed to build, and climate and environmental benefits."

Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Infrastructure [37]
Pollution [29]
Technology [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Canary Media [38], 03/06/2026
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Big Tech Signs Trump Data Center Pledge. Fulfilling It Is the Hard Part. [39]

"In an effort to quell blowback on data centers, President Donald Trump announced at a White House roundtable on Wednesday the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a set of nonbinding promises that Big Tech companies signed to keep household utility bills from skyrocketing."

Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 03/06/2026
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Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah [41]

"Two Utah Congress members have introduced a resolution that could end protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Conservation groups worry similar maneuvers on other federal lands will follow."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 03/06/2026
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West Va. Senate Moves To Weaken Aboveground Storage Tank Rules [43]

"West Virginia lawmakers in the Senate passed a bill to weaken drinking water protections by loosening regulations for certain aboveground storage tanks. It is the latest move to weaken the Aboveground Storage Tank Act, passed in 2014 after a chemical leak from Freedom Industries along the Elk River contaminated drinking water for nearly 300,000 West Virginians in the Charleston area."

Chemicals [44]
Consumer [45]
Disasters [17]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [46]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: Mountain State Spotlight [49], 03/06/2026
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Marsupials Thought Extinct For Millennia Discovered In New Guinea [50]

"Researchers led by the Australian scientist Tim Flannery have made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: that two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."

Biodiversity [10]
Science [51]
Wildlife [52]
Public [12]
Australia & Oceania [53]
Source: Guardian [54], 03/06/2026
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"Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers" [55]

"No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet, the Interior Department said Wednesday."

Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Natural Resources [33]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [56]
Source: NYTimes [57], 03/05/2026
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Syngenta Will Stop Making Paraquat – A Pesticide Linked To Parkinson’s [58]

"Syngenta, maker of a controversial pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease, said on Tuesday that it will stop making its paraquat weed killer by the end of June."

Agriculture [59]
Chemicals [44]
Consumer [45]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Health [46]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [29]
Technology [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [60]
Source: The New Lede [61], 03/05/2026
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The Sea Is Higher Than We Thought And Millions More Are At Risk: Study [62]

"Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Studies [63]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [28]
Science [51]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [12]
International [60]
Source: AP [64], 03/05/2026
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"The Most Imperiled Terrestrial Ecosystem On The Planet" [65]

"High along the Southwind Nature Trail, the tallgrass prairie waves in all directions, a mix of present-day reality and historical mirage stretching to the horizon much as it did more than 150 years ago." "Today, the vast majority of what was an estimated 140 million to 170 million acres of tallgrass prairie is gone, plowed under by 19th century agricultural sprawl and the development that followed."

Agriculture [59]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [26]
Food [66]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [28]
Wildlife [52]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [67]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [68]
Source: National Parks Traveler [69], 03/05/2026
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Scientists Create Autism Panel, Citing RFK Jr.’s Politicization Of Research [70]

"A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel Tuesday over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he oversees."

Consumer [45]
Environmental Health [46]
Environmental Politics [26]
Health [71]
People & Population [27]
Science [51]
Technology [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [72], 03/05/2026
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"After a Lawsuit, USDA Agrees To Share Climate Risk Data With Farmers" [73]

"Shortly after President Donald Trump took office last January, employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were reportedly instructed to flag and delete any webpages that mentioned climate change — including resources used by farmers to prepare for extreme weather. In response, a group of environmental and agricultural nonprofits sued the agency over the loss of critical information. In May, just days before a scheduled hearing, the USDA announced it would restore its climate webpages."

Agriculture [59]
Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [26]
Food [66]
Journalism & Media [74]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Science [51]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [75], 03/05/2026
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