EJToday: Top Headlines

Renewables Outpace Coal For Electricity Generation In Historic First: Report [9]

"For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity around the world, a new report says, indicating a shift in the global reliance on environmentally harmful fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: NPR [15], 10/10/2025
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"DOJ Legal Delays Slow Environmental Cases and Frustrate Lawyers" [16]

"Staff shortages, turnover, and new priorities at the Department of Justice are stretching legal staff handling environmental issues and causing unusual delays—even before the government shutdown."

Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Government [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [23], 10/10/2025
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US Oversight Disappearing As Refineries Explode. Who’s In Charge Now? [24]

"An El Segundo refinery fire has renewed questions about who is investigating the state’s oil industry after serious accidents. With the U.S. Chemical Safety Board defunded, California has yet to fill the gap."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [18]
Pollution [21]
Technology [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
California [29]
Source: CalMatters [30], 10/10/2025
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Leaked List Shows Trump Mulling $15 Billion More In Clean Energy Cuts [31]

"The U.S. Department of Energy is considering terminating 300 additional clean energy projects worth over $15 billion, according to a leaked list reviewed by The Times."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Infrastructure [12]
Technology [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: LA Times [32], 10/10/2025
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Diary of a Nature Nerd: New Graphic Novel Celebrates Kids’ Love of Wildlife [33]

"Cartoonist Tiffany Everett’s new book encourages readers to explore new places, keep journals about what they encounter, and think like scientists."

Activism [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
People & Population [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: The Revelator [37], 10/10/2025
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"‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist Confirmed As NOAA Chief" [38]

"The Senate has voted to confirm President Trump’s pick to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of a group of nominees confirmed en masse."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [39]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [41]
Science [42]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: The Hill [44], 10/09/2025
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"White House Offers ‘Concierge’ Service To Fossil Fuel Firms, Official Says" [45]

"The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [46]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [47], 10/09/2025
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"Illegal Gold Mining Clears 140,000 Hectares Of Peruvian Amazon" [48]

"An illegal gold rush has cleared 140,000 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon and is accelerating as foreign, armed groups move into the region to profit from record gold prices, according to a report."

Economy & Business [46]
Forests [49]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [41]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
South America [50]
Source: Guardian [51], 10/09/2025
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"EU To Ban Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Firefighting Foam" [52]

"The European Commission on Friday announced restrictions on the use of so-called "forever chemicals" in firefighting foams."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Military [53]
Pollution [21]
Technology [28]
Transportation [54]
Public [13]
Europe [55]
Source: dpa [56], 10/09/2025
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"UN Plastics Treaty Chair To Step Down With Process In Turmoil" [57]

"The chair of stalled UN plastics treaty talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, is preparing to step down, after accounts of behind-the-scenes pressure from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)." "In August, global talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva to agree on a treaty to deal with accelerating plastic pollution collapsed after three years of negotiations. There is currently no deal and the future of the agreement is unclear."

Chemicals [25]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Guardian [59], 10/09/2025
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Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Doesn't Have To Emit Powerful Greenhouse Gas [60]

"Corn monocropping emits higher levels of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas which traps heat in the atmosphere more than 300 times as effectively as carbon dioxide. Simple interventions could drastically reduce emissions, experts say."

Agriculture [61]
Biodiversity [62]
Chemicals [25]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 10/09/2025
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Louisianans Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects [64]

"Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood."

Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: Capital & Main [66], 10/09/2025
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"Progress on Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Stalls as Seedlings Die Off" [67]

"Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the “Great Green Wall,” a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows."

Agriculture [61]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [49]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [36]
Public [13]
Africa [68]
Source: YaleE360 [69], 10/09/2025
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"Fla. County Battered By 2024 Hurricanes Spends $125M On Beach Restoration" [70]

"The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [46]
Infrastructure [12]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [36]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: AP [71], 10/09/2025
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Women In Mexico Protect Ancient Aztec Farms And Save A Vanishing Ecosystem [72]

"Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago."

Agriculture [61]
Biodiversity [62]
Food [73]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [36]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [74]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [13]
Mexico [75]
Source: AP [76], 10/09/2025
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