EJToday: Top Headlines

"NOAA Hurricane Hunter Crews, Researchers Flying Without Pay" [9]

"The NOAA pilots and scientists flying aboard hurricane hunter aircraft into Hurricane Melissa’s 185-mile per hour winds are not being paid during the government shutdown, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Government [13]
People & Population [14]
Science [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 10/30/2025
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"Hurricane Melissa Leaves Trail Of Destruction Across Cuba, Haiti And Jamaica" [20]

"Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Central America & the Caribbean [23]
Source: AP [24], 10/30/2025
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"Annual Climate Change Report Finds “Planet On The Brink”" [25]

"Earth’s vital signs are “flashing red,” fossil fuel use is at peak levels and warming is increasingly impacting forests, oceans and disaster frequency, according to a new report."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
People & Population [14]
Public [17]
International [28]
Source: The New Lede [29], 10/30/2025
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"Energy Prices Seize Spotlight In Virginia, New Jersey Races" [30]

"Closely watched gubernatorial campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey are serving as testing grounds for how candidates will use surging electricity prices to their advantage in next year’s midterm elections."

Consumer [31]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [33]
People & Population [14]
Technology [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [35], 10/30/2025
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"EPA Accused Of Misleading Public About Ongoing Production Of Harmful PFAS" [36]

"Federal regulators are falsely claiming that production of a dangerous PFAS chemical has been phased out in the US, according to a complaint filed this week by an environmental watchdog group alleging the statement is untrue since the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consistently finds the chemical and other PFAS in fluorinated plastic containers."

Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [33]
Journalism & Media [38]
Pollution [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [40], 10/30/2025
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"Trump Administration Dismisses Risks of Atrazine, a Farm Herbicide" [41]

"Experts say its continued use will likely harm hundreds of endangered species, rendering some extinct."

Agriculture [42]
Biodiversity [43]
Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [44]
Pollution [39]
Science [15]
Wildlife [45]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [46], 10/30/2025
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"Despite Trump Troubles, Hyundai Charges Ahead With Green-Steel Project" [47]

"Even after an immigration raid on its Georgia facility and dimmed prospects for hydrogen, Hyundai is committed to its $6B low-carbon steel plant in Louisiana."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Technology [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Canary Media [48], 10/30/2025
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"Judge Orders New York To Follow Through On Its Climate Law" [49]

"The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [44]
Pollution [39]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: New York Focus [51], 10/30/2025
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Why Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Keep Ending up in Philadelphia Waters [52]

"Some 280 years after a river-swimming Benjamin Franklin petitioned to curb water pollution here, the city is still struggling to meet the challenge, according to water advocates who assembled along the banks of one of its two main rivers on Monday."

Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [33]
Infrastructure [53]
Laws & Regulations [44]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 10/30/2025
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"A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back" [56]

"The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned."

Biodiversity [43]
Environmental Studies [12]
Fish & Fisheries [57]
Infrastructure [53]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [58]
Source: NYTimes [59], 10/30/2025
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"Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall In Eastern Cuba As A Category 3 Storm" [60]

"Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Central America & the Caribbean [23]
Source: AP [24], 10/29/2025
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"100 Countries Stall On Climate Targets Ahead Of COP30" [61]

"Dozens of nations have failed to strengthen their climate targets — a requirement of the Paris Agreement — as they race toward global negotiations next month with planet-warming pollution on the rise."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [33]
Pollution [39]
Public [17]
International [28]
Source: E&E News [62], 10/29/2025
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Trump Fires Arts Commission Expected To Review His Construction Projects [63]

"The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Donald Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington."

Environmental Politics [33]
Environmental Studies [12]
Government [13]
Infrastructure [53]
Laws & Regulations [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Source: Washington Post [64], 10/29/2025
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Coffee-Driven Deforestation Is Making It Harder To Grow Coffee, Group Says [65]

"As the world's thirst for coffee shows no signs of slowing down, widely used practices to ramp up the crop's production have become self-defeating, according to a nonprofit watchdog group."

Agriculture [42]
Biodiversity [43]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [12]
Natural Resources [66]
Public [17]
South America [67]
Source: NPR [68], 10/29/2025
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"Park Air Monitoring Networks Suffer Under Shutdown, Trump Cuts" [69]

"The complex web of air monitoring networks in the nation’s national parks is bogged down under the government shutdown, widening weak spots in an already underfunded and overstretched network."

Air [70]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [44]
Natural Resources [66]
Pollution [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [71], 10/29/2025
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