EJToday: Top Headlines

Trump Cuts To Climate Satellites Will Make Weather Prediction Harder [9]

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

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [17], 09/02/2025
- Read more about Trump Cuts To Climate Satellites Will Make Weather Prediction Harder [9]
Trump DOT Cancels $679 Million For Offshore Wind Projects As Industry Reels [18]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [22], 09/02/2025
- Read more about Trump DOT Cancels $679 Million For Offshore Wind Projects As Industry Reels [18]
"Internal Emails Reveal Interior’s Empire Wind Deliberations" [23]

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

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Technology [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [26], 09/02/2025
- Read more about "Internal Emails Reveal Interior’s Empire Wind Deliberations" [23]
National Weather Service Applicants Must Explain How They Agree With Trump [27]

"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 [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [28], 09/02/2025
- Read more about National Weather Service Applicants Must Explain How They Agree With Trump [27]
"The Ecological Benefits Of Far-Ranging Bison Herds" [29]

"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 [30]
Biodiversity [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Wildlife [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [33]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [34]
Source: National Parks Traveler [35], 09/02/2025
- Read more about "The Ecological Benefits Of Far-Ranging Bison Herds" [29]
"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [36]

"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 [37]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [39]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [42], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [36]
RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources [43]

"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 [37]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [45]
Laws & Regulations [39]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [41]
Science [14]
Technology [25]
Waste [46]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CNN [47], 08/29/2025
- Read more about RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources [43]
"How Homeless Residents Nationwide Suffer The Effects Of Hotter Summers" [48]

"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 [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [38]
People & Population [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Source: NPR [50], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "How Homeless Residents Nationwide Suffer The Effects Of Hotter Summers" [48]
"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All." [51]

"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 [37]
Consumer [44]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [39]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [52]
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ [53], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All." [51]
Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy [54]

"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 [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [55]
People & Population [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [56]
Source: NPR [57], 08/29/2025
- Read more about Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy [54]
"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol" [58]

"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [59]
Laws & Regulations [39]
Military [60]
Natural Resources [61]
People & Population [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [62]
Source: KING5 [63], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol" [58]
‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [64]

"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."

Biodiversity [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Laws & Regulations [39]
Military [60]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
Africa [66]
Source: AP [67], 08/29/2025
- Read more about ‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [64]
Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others [68]

"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."

Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [39]
Military [60]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [41]
Technology [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [69], 08/29/2025
- Read more about Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others [68]
"These Investigators Patrol Las Vegas Looking For One Thing: Water Waste" [70]

"About two dozen investigators patrol neighborhoods throughout Las Vegas every day searching for signs of wasted water. They're known as water waste investigators who are part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. For more than 20 years, they have been helping conserve water in the growing desert city."

Consumer [44]
Government [45]
Laws & Regulations [39]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [34]
Source: NPR [71], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "These Investigators Patrol Las Vegas Looking For One Thing: Water Waste" [70]
"Planting Vines And Other Ways Hot Cities Are Creating Cool Spaces" [72]

"As Spain takes a breath after yet another brutal summer heatwave, with temperatures above 40C in many parts of the country, the residents of the sherry-making town of Jerez de la Frontera have come up with a novel way to keep the streets cool."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [24]
Natural Resources [61]
People & Population [40]
Technology [25]
Public [15]
International [73]
Europe [74]
Source: Guardian [75], 08/29/2025
- Read more about "Planting Vines And Other Ways Hot Cities Are Creating Cool Spaces" [72]

Pages