EJToday: Top Headlines

"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report" [9]

"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 10/07/2025
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"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires" [21]

"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/07/2025
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Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem [27]

"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Source: Allegheny Front [31], 10/07/2025
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"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?" [32]

"Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Studies [34]
Infrastructure [28]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [35]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
International [36]
Source: Euronews [37], 10/07/2025
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California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’ [38]

"For most of her life, Thea Maria Carlson did not like fire. Even though she had studied earth systems at Stanford University and knew, intellectually, that burning had an environmental purpose in her home of California, she still wanted nothing to do with it."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [33]
Forests [39]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [15]
Public [18]
California [41]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [42], 10/07/2025
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"Outcry As Trump Plots More Roads And Logging In US Forests" [43]

"Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment"

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [44]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [39]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [40]
Wildlife [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [46], 10/07/2025
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"Appeal Seeks To Force Factory Farms To Disclose Hazardous Air Emissions" [47]

"A coalition of food, environmental and animal welfare groups is appealing a recent federal court decision that upheld a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule exempting factory farms from publicly disclosing hazardous air emissions information."

Agriculture [10]
Air [48]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [49], 10/07/2025
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"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish" [50]

"When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [34]
Journalism & Media [51]
People & Population [15]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Science [52], 10/07/2025
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How We Probed A Maze Of Websites To Tally Brazilian Shark Meat Orders [53]

"A recent Mongabay investigation found widespread government purchases of shark meat in Brazil to serve in thousands of public institutions." "As part of the research, we spent months combing through dozens of websites where Brazilian government agencies are legally required to publish their procurement records."

Biodiversity [44]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Food [55]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
International [36]
South America [56]
Source: Mongabay [57], 10/07/2025
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"RCFP Calls DHS Actions Against Journalists ‘Disturbing,’ Seeks Meeting" [58]

"The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is requesting a meeting with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to discuss several incidents in which federal agents have arrested and used force against journalists."

Activism [59]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [51]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [60]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Reporters Committee [61], 10/07/2025
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"Youth-Led US Climate Activists Widen Focus To Fight Authoritarianism" [62]

"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."

Activism [59]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [64], 10/06/2025
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"The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights" [65]

"A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next."

Activism [59]
Biodiversity [44]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [34]
Natural Resources [40]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [66]
Wildlife [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 10/06/2025
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Climate Change Is Disrupting Global Wind Speeds, Impacting Planetary Health [68]

"Worsening sand and dust storms, wildfires intensified by record-setting winds, and increasingly severe hurricanes, derechos, short-lived convective storms, and other extreme weather events are impacting people’s lives, health and property around the world."

Air [48]
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Studies [34]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Source: Mongabay [69], 10/06/2025
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FEMA Holds $300 Million in Grants Until States Account for Deportations [70]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is withholding more than $300 million in emergency preparedness grants from states until they can prove that their population estimates, used to calculate award amounts, do not include people who have been deported from the United States."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [33]
Diversity [71]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [72], 10/06/2025
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"In the Arctic, the U.S. Shifts Focus From Climate Research to Security" [73]

"The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet and is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth. And the United States’ approach to Arctic research has also begun shifting." "The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [34]
Natural Resources [40]
Science [17]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [74]
International [36]
Antarctica & Arctic [75]
Source: NYTimes [76], 10/06/2025
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