EJToday: Top Headlines

"A 20 Percent Electric Bill Surge Tests New Jersey’s Climate Goals" [9]

"On June 1, New Jersey residents will face something they’ve dreaded for months: A nearly 20 percent rate increase in their electricity bills."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 05/19/2025
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"Many On Navajo Nation Blindsided By Hydrogen Pipeline Change" [20]

"The company at the center of a controversial green energy project connecting New Mexico and Arizona has changed plans for a key component: A much-debated pipeline that would have carried climate-friendly hydrogen will instead carry natural gas, and possibly a natural gas-hydrogen blend at a future date. Unlike hydrogen, natural gas, blended or not, contributes to climate warming both in its production and when it is burned for energy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [24]
Technology [25]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Capital & Main [27], 05/19/2025
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"Trump Orders The Government To Stop Enforcing Rules He Doesn’t Like" [28]

"At the Transportation Department, enforcement of pipeline safety rules has plunged to unprecedented lows since President Donald Trump’s inauguration." "Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have routinely followed."

Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [30], 05/19/2025
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"How Tech Companies Could Shrink AI's Climate Footprint" [31]

"In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn't shake this existential worry."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [14]
Pollution [24]
Technology [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NPR [32], 05/19/2025
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Legal Support For Journalists Helps Meet Rising Threats To Press Freedom [33]

"At a time when attacks on press freedom are heightening, including from the White House and President Donald Trump himself, legal support for journalists is shifting to meet new challenges."

Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [35]
Source: Poynter [36], 05/19/2025
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"An Effort to Kill Off Lawsuits Against Oil Giants Is Gaining Steam" [37]

"The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it." "Over the past decade, some three dozen states and local governments have sued the biggest oil companies in the world, arguing that the industry hid what it knew about the dangers of global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [38]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [39], 05/16/2025
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"Summer-Like Slug Of Heat Pushes Across Much Of North America" [40]

"One of the most eye-popping late-spring heat waves on record made its way from the Pacific Coast into the center of North America this week. Numerous towns and cities have notched their hottest days and/or warmest nights ever experienced this early in the season, and some have soared to readings unheard of anytime before June."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [41]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [43], 05/16/2025
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Ice Roads, a Lifeline For First Nations, Disappearing As Canada Warms [44]

"Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [41]
Infrastructure [14]
Natural Resources [45]
People & Population [23]
Technology [25]
Transportation [46]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [47]
Canada [48]
Source: Grist [49], 05/16/2025
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"After Disasters, AmeriCorps Was Everywhere. What Happens When It’s Gone?" [50]

"After devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January, a crew of more than 300 young people showed up to help, many of them members of the national service program AmeriCorps." "Elon Musk's DOGE has gutted the 30-year-old national service agency."

Activism [51]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [41]
Government [52]
People & Population [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Grist [53], 05/16/2025
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"Trump Admin Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law" [54]

"For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped scores of species — from whooping cranes to red wolves to California condors — claw their way back from the edge of extinction. Its success has made it supremely popular with the American public — far more popular, for instance, than Congress. But now, like all those species it helps protect, the law itself is in grave peril. The Trump administration, Congress, and their allies have launched a barrage of legislation, litigation and regulatory maneuvers in recent months that together could tear the teeth out of our most powerful wildlife conservation statute."

Biodiversity [55]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [45]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [57], 05/16/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to End Major Conservation Rule" [58]

"The Trump administration is set to reverse a sweeping conservation rule for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the latest in a series of actions to reverse Biden-era environmental protections. Announced without much public fanfare in early April, the sudden reversal of the rule, which sought to put conservation on an equal playing field with industrial activities, is a blow to conservation efforts, said environmental groups."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Sierra [59], 05/16/2025
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"Trump Admin Launches Far-Reaching Audit Of Energy Awards" [60]

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a wide-ranging review of more than $15 billion in federal awards approved under President Joe Biden."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [61], 05/16/2025
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Toxic Cleanups in San Francisco Take 4+ Years Longer in Communities of Color [62]

"Toxic site cleanups take longer in parts of San Francisco where fewer residents are white, a new data analysis from the San Francisco Public Press shows. The analysis also shows that a higher proportion of residents who are Black, Indigenous and other people of color in an area correlates directly with longer cleanup durations."

Chemicals [63]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
California [64]
Source: SF Public Press [65], 05/16/2025
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"China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon" [66]

"China’s plans to build a massive hydro project in Tibet have sparked fears about the environmental impacts on the world’s longest and deepest canyon. It has also alarmed neighboring India, which fears that China could hold back or even weaponize river water it depends on."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [52]
Infrastructure [14]
Military [67]
Natural Resources [45]
People & Population [23]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
Asia [68]
Source: YaleE360 [69], 05/16/2025
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"Green Gold: Why Seagrass Is A Hidden Climate Hero" [70]

"The destruction of seagrass could derail progress in reining in planet-warming emissions and cost billions in environmental damage."

"JOHANNESBURG - Alongside forests, soil and wetlands, another powerful natural carbon absorber critical to tackling climate change lies hidden beneath the ocean surface: seagrass.

The loss of these underwater meadows, also known as blue carbon, could hobble efforts to tackle climate change, both financially and environmentally, a new study has found.

So what exactly is this marine vegetation, and what else did the research find?
Biodiversity [55]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [71]
Natural Resources [45]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
International [35]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [72], 05/16/2025
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