EJToday: Top Headlines

"Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump" [9]

"The Trump administration has filed far fewer civil cases accusing companies of violating environmental rules than its predecessors, an analysis of federal data shows."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 08/11/2025
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"Popular E.P.A. Database Is in Limbo Amid Science Cuts" [23]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said it would stop updating research that hundreds of companies use to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions after the agency suspended the database’s creator because he had signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s approach to scientific research."

Activism [24]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Pollution [19]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [29], 08/11/2025
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"Far More Environmental Data Is Being Deleted In Trump's Second Term" [30]

"The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did, and those changes are bolder, according to a report published by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Pollution [19]
Science [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NPR [31], 08/11/2025
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Records Contradict What FEMA Leader Told Congress About Texas Flood Response [32]

"In the week after floods tore through Texas Hill Country, most survivors were unable to get through to a federal aid hotline because the Department of Homeland Security let funding lapse, according to publicly available contract records and internal FEMA call center logs obtained by NPR."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [34]
People & Population [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
Source: NPR [38], 08/11/2025
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Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among Poorest [39]

"Though 60 miles (100km) apart, the Brazilian municipalities of Presidente Kennedy in Espírito Santo state and Campos dos Goytacazes in Rio de Janeiro state have one big thing in common: oil. Since late in the last century, their public funds have been bolstered by billions in royalties from oil finds in the offshore Campos Basin. Yet despite having significantly more resources than other towns and cities in Brazil, both still face problems such as poor sanitation and healthcare, inadequate social housing and state education as well as corruption scandals.

Consumer [12]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [35]
Public [20]
South America [41]
Source: Agência Pública [42], 08/11/2025
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"The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River" [43]

"More than 40 years after the Passaic River was declared a Superfund site, cancer-causing toxins still line its bottom. While residents drink from its waters, cleanup stalls under corporate resistance and potential federal budget cuts."

Activism [24]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Waste [44]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 08/11/2025
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Commercial Fishing In Vast Pacific Reserve Halted As Judge Blocks Trump Order [47]

"Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections."

Environmental Politics [17]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [40]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [49]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [50]
Source: AP [51], 08/11/2025
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"EPA Dissolves Union Contract, AFGE Says" [52]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unilaterally dissolved a collective bargaining agreement with members of the union that represents its workers, the union said Friday."

Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [53], 08/11/2025
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Trump Orders Political Control Over All Federal Grants, Alarming Researchers [54]

"An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development."

Biodiversity [55]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [25]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [56], 08/11/2025
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Unlikely Coalition Fighting To Keep Energy Star Labels On Your Appliances [57]

"The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program, but bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [19]
Technology [28]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Grist [58], 08/11/2025
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"National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science" [59]

"The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [17]
Science [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 08/08/2025
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DOE Boss Says Trump Admin May Alter Past National Climate Assessments [61]

"Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said officials are reviewing previously published National Climate Assessments and may update them. Earlier this year, the Trump administration fired more than 400 scientists working on the next federal climate report and removed the website that housed the previous ones."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [25]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [35]
Science [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: LA Times [62], 08/08/2025
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"RFK Jr. Announces End To Some mRNA Contracts, Including For Flu, Covid" [63]

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday a crackdown on mRNA vaccine technology and research to develop it, following months of pressure from anti-vaccine activists."

Consumer [12]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [34]
Health [64]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [35]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [65], 08/08/2025
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After Deep Cuts, National Weather Service Gets OK To Fill Up To 450 Jobs [66]

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing, the Trump administration confirmed Wednesday."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [34]
People & Population [35]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [67], 08/08/2025
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Federal Judge Orders Chemours To Immediately Stop Polluting Ohio River [68]

"A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [15]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [69]
Source: Mountain State Spotlight [70], 08/08/2025
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