EJToday: Top Headlines

"US Wetlands ‘Restored’ Using Treated Sewage Tainted With Forever Chemicals" [9]

"Many of the nation’s wetlands are being filled with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” as wastewater treatment plant effluent tainted with the compounds is increasingly used to restore swampland and other waters. The practice threatens wildlife, food and drinking water sources, environmental advocates warn."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Guardian [22], 07/21/2025
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"Brazil Lawmakers Gut Environmental Permitting Ahead Of COP30 Summit" [23]

"Brazil's Congress voted Thursday to weaken environmental permitting rules despite fierce opposition from environmentalists."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [20]
International [25]
South America [26]
Source: Religion News Service [27], 07/21/2025
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Trump Admin Dashes Hopes Of Anti-Pollution Plan For JD Vance’s Home Town [28]

"The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold"

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [31]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: Guardian [33], 07/21/2025
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Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s US List For Fecal Contamination [34]

"Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, with an Enterococci reading 384 times the safety threshold."

Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [35]
Source: WyoFile [36], 07/21/2025
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"Can Grizzly Bears Survive Without The Endangered Species Act?" [37]

"Decades of work that has steered grizzly bears away from extinction in the Greater Yellowstone region could be lost if House Republicans succeed in weakening the powerful law that protects them. Progress by the iconic bruins under the Endangered Species Act is not yet enough to keep them safe, in the eyes of environmental advocates."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [38]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: National Parks Traveler [39], 07/21/2025
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"Trump Exempts Scores of Plants From Biden’s Pollution Rules" [40]

"President Donald Trump is allowing chemical makers, coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes."

Air [41]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [24]
Economy & Business [42]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg [43], 07/18/2025
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"E.P.A. Delays Required Cleanups of Toxic Coal Ash Landfills" [44]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would give utility companies an additional year to begin cleaning up contamination from toxic coal ash landfills across the country."

Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Waste [46]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [47], 07/18/2025
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Interior to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review [48]

"The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would apply new layers of political review to wind and solar projects, potentially creating hurdles for renewable energy developments across the country."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [17]
Technology [31]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [49], 07/18/2025
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"The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests" [50]

"A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for going on 25 years. Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long."

Agriculture [51]
Climate Change [24]
Consumer [52]
Environmental Studies [38]
Natural Resources [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [53], 07/18/2025
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Trump’s Budget Would End 7 Decades of Mauna Loa Greenhouse Gas Measurements [54]

"Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere."

Air [41]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [38]
Government [55]
Pollution [17]
Science [56]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [57]
Source: NYTimes [58], 07/18/2025
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EPA Plows Ahead With Reorganization, Giving Employees Less Choice [59]

"EPA has resumed its efforts to reorganize the agency after the Supreme Court earlier this month lifted a lower court’s injunction that stalled the Trump administration’s restructuring efforts. But EPA employees will have less say in where they end up under the restructuring because of the time lost while the injunction was in place, an EPA official told colleagues in an internal email obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [55]
Journalism & Media [60]
People & Population [61]
Pollution [17]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [62], 07/18/2025
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"How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Could Collapse The US Food Industry" [63]

"The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar"

Agriculture [51]
Consumer [52]
Disasters [64]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [65]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [61]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Guardian [66], 07/18/2025
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U.S. Suffers 15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters During 1st Half Of 2025 [67]

"The U.S. suffered 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the first half of 2025, said insurance broker Gallagher Re in its latest quarterly report issued July 16. The average number of January-June inflation-adjusted billion-dollar disasters over the previous 10 years in the U.S. was 15; the record was 23, set in 2024. The Gallagher Re quarterly reports help fill a void left by the elimination of NOAA’s program to track billion-dollar weather disasters, which was terminated this year."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [64]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [60]
People & Population [61]
Science [56]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [68], 07/18/2025
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"Scientists Discover What’s Driving Record Die-Offs Of US Honeybees" [69]

"Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too"

Agriculture [51]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [52]
Food [65]
Natural Resources [16]
Science [56]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Guardian [70], 07/18/2025
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"Interior Secretary Says Alcatraz Will Be Renovated For Criminals" [71]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured the halls of Alcatraz prison at Golden Gate National Recreation Area on Thursday, marveling over some of the names of "the rock's" most notorious prisoners to announce that the crumbling facility would be renovated to house "the most dangerous criminals and illegals."

Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
People & Population [61]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
California [72]
Source: National Parks Traveler [73], 07/18/2025
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