EJToday: Top Headlines

"As Oil Glut Fears Mount, OPEC+ Restrains Output Rises For Now" [9]

"OPEC+ oil-producing countries opted for only a modest rise to November output due to concerns about a potential global glut, sources within the group said, as non-OPEC supply also rises while fuel demand growth slows."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 10/08/2025
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EPA Drops Planned Delay in Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants [16]

"Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/08/2025
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Solar And Wind Power Grew Faster Than Electricity Demand This Year: Report [27]

"Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [29]
Pollution [23]
Technology [30]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [31], 10/08/2025
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Company Bids Less Than A Penny Per Ton In Biggest US Coal Sale In Decade [32]

"A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s diminished value even as President Donald Trump pushes to mine and burn more of the heavily polluting fuel."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Pollution [23]
Technology [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [14]
Source: AP [33], 10/08/2025
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"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report" [34]

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

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [17]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Science [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [37], 10/07/2025
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"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires" [38]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
Government [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [23]
Science [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 10/07/2025
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Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem [41]

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

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [17]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Allegheny Front [43], 10/07/2025
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"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?" [44]

"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 [10]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Studies [46]
Infrastructure [29]
People & Population [22]
Planning & Growth [47]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Euronews [48], 10/07/2025
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California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’ [49]

"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 [10]
Disasters [45]
Forests [50]
Natural Resources [51]
People & Population [22]
Public [13]
California [52]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [53], 10/07/2025
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"Outcry As Trump Plots More Roads And Logging In US Forests" [54]

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

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [55]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [50]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [51]
Wildlife [56]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [57], 10/07/2025
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"Appeal Seeks To Force Factory Farms To Disclose Hazardous Air Emissions" [58]

"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 [35]
Air [59]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The New Lede [60], 10/07/2025
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"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish" [61]

"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 [10]
Environmental Politics [20]
Environmental Studies [46]
Journalism & Media [62]
People & Population [22]
Science [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Science [63], 10/07/2025
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How We Probed A Maze Of Websites To Tally Brazilian Shark Meat Orders [64]

"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 [55]
Environmental Politics [20]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Food [66]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
International [14]
South America [67]
Source: Mongabay [68], 10/07/2025
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"RCFP Calls DHS Actions Against Journalists ‘Disturbing,’ Seeks Meeting" [69]

"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 [70]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [62]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Military [71]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Reporters Committee [72], 10/07/2025
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"Youth-Led US Climate Activists Widen Focus To Fight Authoritarianism" [73]

"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 [70]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Government [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [74], 10/06/2025
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