EJToday: Top Headlines

"E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change" [9]

"The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 07/24/2025
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"Courts Banned This Herbicide Twice. The EPA Wants To Bring It Back." [22]

"The EPA announced Wednesday its plan to re-register dicamba, a herbicide widely used on soybean and cotton farms that has been banned twice by federal courts."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [26], 07/24/2025
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"White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan To Remake Grid" [27]

"The White House released a sweeping action plan Wednesday to boost development of artificial intelligence, a move that could influence the build-out of the grid and the electricity mix for decades."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [31], 07/24/2025
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"Gutting Chemical Safety Board Endangers Millions Of Americans, Groups Warn" [32]

"A coalition of environmental, labor and public safety groups are calling on US lawmakers to reject the Trump administration’s move to eliminate a federal unit that investigates chemical accidents, citing risks to more than 170 million people who lives in zones at risk for such events."

Chemicals [24]
Disasters [33]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [34]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The New Lede [35], 07/24/2025
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Activists Opposing Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show [36]

"Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have for years worked alongside private mine security to surveil the largely peaceful protesters who oppose the mine, called Thacker Pass, according to more than 2,000 pages of internal law enforcement communications reviewed by ProPublica."

Activism [37]
Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [16]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: ProPublica [39], 07/24/2025
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"Trump Admin Cancels $4.9B Loan For Biggest Transmission Line In US" [40]

"The Trump administration just dealt a blow to the biggest transmission line project currently underway in the United States." "The Grain Belt Express is over a decade in the making and would bring huge amounts of cheap wind and solar from the plains to the East. Its future is now murky."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [41]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Technology [34]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Canary Media [42], 07/24/2025
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Governments Legally Required to Address Climate Change, Global Court Says [43]

"In a landmark advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice also said high-emissions countries may need to pay reparations."

Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
International [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 07/24/2025
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"Trump’s EPA Delays Rules Requiring Toxic Coal Ash Cleanup" [46]

"The Trump administration just dealt another blow to U.S. environmental regulations — one that could allow more contamination of drinking water from toxic coal ash contamination. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed on July 17 to extend deadlines for required reporting and groundwater monitoring at coal ash landfills and dumps."

Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Waste [47]
Water & Oceans [48]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Canary Media [49], 07/24/2025
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"Court Upholds A Landmark Clean-Heat Rule In Southern California" [50]

"The first-in-the-nation regulation, passed last year, will cut NOx emissions from more than 1 million boilers and water heaters in the smoggy Los Angeles area."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
California [51]
Source: Canary Media [52], 07/24/2025
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"On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow" [53]

"Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up."

Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: Capital & Main [55], 07/24/2025
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"FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’" [56]

"The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue unit has resigned, telling colleagues he was frustrated by bureaucratic hurdles the Trump administration imposed that delayed the agency’s response to deadly flooding in Texas, according to three people familiar with his reasoning."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [14]
People & Population [38]
Water & Oceans [48]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [57], 07/23/2025
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"Coke Confirms Cane Sugar Change. RFK Jr. Calls It a MAHA Win. Is It?" [58]

"As Coca-Cola confirms plans to release the cane sugar alternative in the U.S., some nutritionists said there is little health benefit as a replacement for high-fructose corn syrup."

Consumer [41]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [59]
Health [60]
People & Population [38]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Public Health Watch/WVPB [61], 07/23/2025
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"Chinese Car Giants Rush Into Brazil With Dreams of Dominating a Continent" [62]

"As the likes of Ford and Mercedes retreat, Great Wall Motor and BYD are building factories and bringing affordable EVs and hybrids to one of the world’s biggest markets."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Technology [34]
Transportation [63]
Public [19]
South America [64]
Source: NYTimes [65], 07/23/2025
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"Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent" [66]

"The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions."

Activism [37]
Climate Change [10]
Government [14]
People & Population [38]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [67], 07/23/2025
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Trump Admin Looks to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches [68]

"A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought."

Chemicals [24]
Disasters [33]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [34]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: ProPublica [69], 07/23/2025
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