EJToday: Top Headlines

"National Park Entrance Fees Are Funding Trump’s D.C. Projects" [9]

"The administration is spending at least $67 million worth of fees paid by visitors to national parks on fixing D.C. fountains and the Reflecting Pool."

Conflict/Corruption [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
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National (U.S.) [16]
Source: New York Times [17], 05/28/2026
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Analysis: Why Trump EPA Plan To Attempt To Destroy PFAS Is ‘Nonsensical’ [18]

"A new Trump administration plan to ditch Pfas drinking water regulations and instead attempt to destroy “forever chemicals” on a wide scale tears a page from the fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture playbook, and will benefit the industry while harming public health."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [24], 05/28/2026
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China's New Carbon Metrics 'Erased Half' Of Emissions Growth: Report [25]

"China's latest carbon data suggests it has changed the way it calculates carbon emissions, reducing by half the emissions growth the country previously reported from 2020 to 2025, climate researchers argue in a new report."

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Pollution [22]
Technology [28]
Public [15]
International [29]
Asia [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 05/28/2026
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"Residents Wrangle Over Transmission Line Proposal for Rural Virginia" [32]

"GOOCHLAND, Va.—Deborah Blackburn leaned on her cane in a line to enter the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex, angst-ridden over a giant transmission line proposal for reasons that are common refrains here: It’s all to benefit data centers in Northern Virginia, and it will disrupt the rural character here outside Richmond."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [34]
Pollution [22]
Technology [28]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 05/28/2026
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Hajj Pilgrims Perform Rituals In Soaring Heat As Eid Al-Adha Begins [37]

"Huge crowds of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a pillar in a symbolic ritual on one of the final days of the Hajj in temperatures reaching over 107 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) as Muslims around the world on Wednesday started celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [21]
Government [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [38]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [39]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
International [29]
Middle East [40]
Source: AP [41], 05/28/2026
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6,000-Acre Solar Project Permit Nixed By Ohio Supreme Court, For Now [42]

"The Ohio Supreme Court overturned a permit that state officials previously granted to a massive, 6,000-acre industrial-scale solar farm and battery operation in Madison County."

Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Source: Signal Ohio [44], 05/28/2026
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Supreme Court Settles Long-Running Water Dispute Over Dwindling Rio Grande [45]

"The U.S. Supreme Court has approved a settlement package designed to rein in groundwater pumping along one of North America’s longest rivers and ensure enough water reliably makes it from New Mexico to Texas, ending a long-running dispute over management of the Rio Grande."

Agriculture [46]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Justice [47]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [48]
Source: AP [49], 05/28/2026
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Brazil's $75 Million Highway Through Amazon Fuels Deforestation Concerns [50]

"Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest, a project environmentalists say could accelerate deforestation and worsen climate change."

Agriculture [46]
Biodiversity [51]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [52]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [53]
Wildlife [54]
Public [15]
South America [55]
Source: AP [56], 05/28/2026
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"A Warmer World Creates Bigger And More Damaging Hailstones, Study Says" [57]

"A warmer world will likely make bigger and more damaging hail, a new study said."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [58]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [38]
Science [59]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [60], 05/28/2026
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"The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims" [61]

"The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [62]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [22]
Technology [28]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [29]
Source: WIRED [63], 05/28/2026
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1 Dead And 9 Missing After Chemical Tank Rupture At Washington Paper Plant [64]

"At least one person has died, nine people were injured and nine employees remain unaccounted for after a large tank of chemical treatment product, including hazardous materials, ruptured at a paper and packaging facility in Washington state, fire officials said."

Activism [65]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [47]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [66]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CNN [67], 05/27/2026
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Trump Admin Proposes Non-Disclosure Agreements For All Federal Workers [68]

"The Trump administration is planning a government-wide nondisclosure agreement that would bar federal workers from sharing a wide array of “confidential government information,” according to a draft notice posted to the Federal Register on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management." "The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies."

Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [47]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [66]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [69], 05/27/2026
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India Records Over 300 Suspected Heatstroke Cases As Temperatures Spike [70]

"More than 300 suspected cases of heat-related illnesses have been reported in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh from the start of March to mid-May, the state's health department ‌said."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [58]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [38]
Public [15]
International [29]
Asia [30]
Europe [71]
Source: Reuters [72], 05/27/2026
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Vermont Is 1st US State To Ban Paraquat Herbicide Over Parkinson’s Fears [73]

"Vermont is the first US state to ban the weedkilling pesticide paraquat, backed by lawmakers who cited concerns about research showing the chemical substantially increases the risk of the incurable brain ailment known as Parkinson’s disease."

Agriculture [46]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [74], 05/27/2026
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Trump’s FDA Delivers For Tobacco Following $5 Million Super PAC Donation [75]

"During his yearlong tenure leading the Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary managed to bother various constituencies, but it was fruit-flavored vapes that apparently sealed his fate."

Conflict/Corruption [10]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: MS NOW [76], 05/27/2026
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