EJToday: Top Headlines

Federal Agents Shove Journalists At NYC Immigration Court, Hospitalizing One [9]

"Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [18], 10/02/2025
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Despite Trump Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online [19]

"Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Infrastructure [22]
Journalism & Media [13]
Science [23]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/02/2025
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"Can A New Fund Give Tropical Forests A Future?" [27]

"Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a $1 billion investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) to support forest conservation this week at a United Nations event in New York."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [29]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Public [16]
International [25]
South America [32]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [33], 10/02/2025
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National Parks Open With Limited Staff. Oil/Gas Permitting Continues Apace [34]

"On Tuesday evening, with the federal government on the brink of a shutdown, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took to social media to tout the agency’s deployment of autonomous lawnmowers on the National Mall and at several other National Park sites."

Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [36], 10/02/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules on Climate Super Pollutants" [37]

"The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to relax a Biden-era rule that requires grocery stores, air-conditioning companies, semiconductor plants and others to sharply and rapidly reduce some powerful greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment."

Chemicals [38]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [40], 10/02/2025
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Appeal Could Ease Spreading of Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways [41]

"In recent years, Pennsylvania regulators have tried to clamp down on roadway spreading of tens of millions of gallons of oil and gas “brines,” high-salt liquids that can be laced with toxic metals and radioactive material. The industry is pushing back."

Chemicals [38]
Consumer [42]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [44]
Pollution [39]
Technology [24]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 10/02/2025
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"NJ Sues Pfizer Over Cancer-Linked Water Contamination" [49]

"New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has sued Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell and several real estate companies over a site in Morris Plains where toxic waste remained from a now-shuttered pharmaceutical plant."

Chemicals [38]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Waste [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 10/02/2025
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"Uncovering the Secret Lives of Cacti and Fungi in the Sonoran Desert" [52]

"With sizzling temperatures and a parched climate, it can be hard to survive in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. But some species have evolved to thrive in this extreme environment, including the iconic saguaro cactus. Part of the reason for this prickly plant’s success is its intimate relationship with a smaller—but similarly mighty—desert player: fungi."

Biodiversity [53]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Studies [54]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [55]
Mexico [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 10/02/2025
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Pope Leo Decries Climate Skeptics As He Embraces Francis' Green Legacy [58]

"Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who “ridicule those who speak of global warming,” as he strongly embraced Pope Francis’ environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments to date."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [13]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [39]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [59]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [25]
Source: AP [60], 10/02/2025
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"Jane Goodall, Legendary Primatologist, Has Died At Age 91" [61]

"Jane Goodall, a scientist whose studies of wild chimpanzees made her a household name, has died at the age of 91, according to an announcement posted by the Jane Goodall Institute."

Biodiversity [53]
Environmental Studies [54]
Journalism & Media [13]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Science [23]
Wildlife [62]
Public [16]
International [25]
Africa [63]
Source: NPR [64], 10/02/2025
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"Shutdown Threatens To Delay Zeldin’s Climate Rule Rollback" [65]

"EPA is trying to complete an agencywide restructuring effort while also weakening marquee regulations in October and November. Now it might have to do that in the midst of a government shutdown."

Chemicals [38]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [66], 10/01/2025
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Industry, Enviros Spar Over California Bill To Ban PFAS in Cookware [67]

"As US states increasingly pass laws to limit PFAS chemicals in consumer products, a debate is heating up over a California bill that proposes banning the sale of cookware with intentionally added “forever chemicals” beginning in 2030."

Chemicals [38]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [10]
Food [68]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [69]
Source: The New Lede [70], 10/01/2025
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Virginia Legislation to Manage Data Center Growth Is Stalling [71]

"The state with the most data centers is struggling to enact laws to protect electric customers and limit the energy and environmental impacts of their explosive growth."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [31]
Planning & Growth [72]
Technology [24]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [73], 10/01/2025
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"The Chesapeake Bay Program Reaches a Crossroads" [74]

"Facing weakened pollution targets and threats of federal inaction, Maryland and Virginia may have to become the agreement’s enforcers."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [75]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [76], 10/01/2025
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"As Floods Worsen, Pakistan Is the Epicenter of Climate Change" [77]

"This season’s intense monsoon rains caused flooding that killed hundreds and displaced millions of people in Pakistan — an increasingly frequent occurrence. Scientists who study extreme weather warn that Pakistan is more vulnerable to climate change than any other nation."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [78]
Environmental Health [10]
People & Population [31]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
Asia [79]
Source: YaleE360 [80], 10/01/2025
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