EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump EPA Seeks To Speed Up Permitting For AI Infrastructure" [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed new measures aimed at speeding construction of infrastructure needed for the rapid buildup of data centers for artificial intelligence that would enable companies to start building before obtaining air permits."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Technology [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 09/10/2025
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Enviros Worry Spraying Glyphosate Makes Forests More Vulnerable To Wildfires [23]

"Herbicides in forestry kill broadleaf vegetation that compete with softwoods, which are more flammable"

Agriculture [24]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Forests [25]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Canada [28]
Source: CBC News [29], 09/10/2025
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House Bill Amending Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water in Iowa and US [30]

"A bill drastically reducing the scope of the Clean Water Act passed through committee in the U.S. House and will likely reach the floor for debate later this month. The legislation would narrow the definition of bodies of water that qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act and would remove laws requiring permits before discharging pesticides or manure-contaminated stormwater from factory farms into waterways."

Agriculture [24]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 09/10/2025
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Georgia Judge To Toss Racketeering Charges Against ‘Cop City’ Protesters [34]

"A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”"

Activism [35]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [26]
Wildlife [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: AP [38], 09/10/2025
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"Exxon Wants to Make More of the Materials Needed for E.V. Batteries" [39]

"The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [16]
Natural Resources [26]
Technology [19]
Transportation [41]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [42]
Source: NYTimes [43], 09/10/2025
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‘There Is Only One Player’: China Is Becoming A World Leader In Green Energy [44]

"As US reneges on climate breakdown pledges, China’s response to crisis will shape geopolitics and our future"

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [16]
Pollution [18]
Technology [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [42]
Asia [45]
Source: Guardian [46], 09/09/2025
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"DC Circuit Reverses EPA Removal of Sudden Emission Protections" [47]

"The EPA couldn’t justify scaling back startup, shutdown, and malfunction liability shields in Title V air permitting rules, according to a Friday judgment from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit."

Air [48]
Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 09/09/2025
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"Trump Plan To Move USDA Spurs Brain Drain Fears" [50]

"A Trump administration plan to remove thousands of agriculture employees from Washington, D.C., is raising concerns among economists, who fear that such a move could erode expertise in a workforce reluctant to relocate."

Agriculture [24]
Biodiversity [51]
Economy & Business [40]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [52], 09/09/2025
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"EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS" [53]

"Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides."

Agriculture [24]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [54]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Civil Eats [55], 09/09/2025
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"Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change" [56]

"Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”"

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Science [57]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [58], 09/09/2025
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"Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide" [59]

"The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [60], 09/09/2025
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"California Quietly Guts Ambitious Virtual Power Plant Bill" [61]

"Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead — but the most innovative approaches were cut."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Technology [19]
Public [20]
California [62]
Source: Canary Media [63], 09/09/2025
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Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Biogas Industrial Hog Farms [64]

"N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents."

Agriculture [24]
Air [48]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [65]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 09/09/2025
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"Sweden’s Rare-Earths Mine Could Harm Indigenous Sami Reindeer Herders [67]

"High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years."

Agriculture [24]
Biodiversity [51]
Environmental Justice [65]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [27]
Wildlife [36]
Public [20]
Antarctica & Arctic [68]
Europe [69]
Source: AP [70], 09/09/2025
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"Charting Whale ‘Superhighways’ for Conservation" [71]

"A new digital platform, Blue Corridors, showcases 30 years of tracking data revealing global whale migrations and mounting threats from ships, fisheries and climate change."

Biodiversity [51]
Fish & Fisheries [72]
Infrastructure [16]
Journalism & Media [73]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [32]
Wildlife [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [74], 09/09/2025
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