EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Said Auto Emissions Don’t Affect the Environment. That’s Not True." [9]

"President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.” But decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes has harmed the environment and public health, from the days when leaded gasoline sent neurotoxins into the air and soil to the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the planet right now."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [20], 04/02/2025
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Trump’s DOE Targets Calif. And Other Blue States For Cuts: Leaked Docs [21]

"The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle environmental protections and roll back nationwide progress toward clean energy disproportionately target California and other blue states, internal documents show."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: LA Times [24], 04/02/2025
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Climate Disasters Are Driving a School Crisis. Black Kids Are Hit Hardest [25]

"Black students are losing classrooms, homes, and support systems after climate events."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Capital B [26], 04/02/2025
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1,900+ Scientists Write Letter In ‘SOS’ Over Trump’s Attacks On Science [27]

"More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [28], 04/02/2025
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"Big Banks Predict Catastrophic Warming, With Profit Potential" [29]

"Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [23]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [30], 04/02/2025
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"The Newest Hurdle For Offshore Wind: Trump’s EPA" [31]

"The agency, led by Trump loyalist Lee Zeldin, just revoked one offshore wind farm’s permit. Now anti-wind groups are trying to leverage a Republican-run EPA."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Canary Media [35], 04/02/2025
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"How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt" [36]

"A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [37]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 04/02/2025
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"Why Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Species Are At Risk" [39]

"President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges. Amid the staffing whiplash — chaotic firings and reinstatement of rangers, scientists, and other civil servants — America’s most vulnerable plant and animal species face new peril in their struggle to survive."

Biodiversity [40]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: National Parks Traveler [44], 04/02/2025
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"Myanmar Just Had ‘The Big One.’ It Should Be A Wake-Up Call For California." [45]

"The famed San Andreas Fault in California is nearly identical to the one that caused the destructive tremor in Myanmar, and is also overdue for an earthquake."

Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [14]
Infrastructure [32]
People & Population [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [46]
Source: Washington Post [47], 04/02/2025
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"EPA Chief Closing Environmental Museum" [48]

"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Monday that he is shutting down a museum in the EPA’s headquarters in an effort to cut costs."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [41]
Government [49]
Journalism & Media [50]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [51], 04/02/2025
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"Trump Halts Historic Orphaned Well-Plugging Program" [52]

"The billions of dollars approved by Congress to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells have been frozen as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government spending, creating concerns that the cleanup will be halted just as it’s getting started."

Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [42]
Pollution [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: High Country News [55], 04/01/2025
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US Could See Return Of Acid Rain Due To Trump’s Rollbacks, Says Scientist [56]

"The US could be plunged back into an era of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the Donald Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, the scientist who discovered the existence of acid rain in North America has warned."

Air [57]
Biodiversity [40]
Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Canada [58]
Source: Guardian [59], 04/01/2025
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"Radioactive Shadow Workers" [60]

"The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret"

Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [61]
Pollution [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [62]
Source: Sierra [63], 04/01/2025
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"Calif. Snowpack Is Near-Average — What Does This Mean For Water Supplies?" [64]

"At 90% of the state historical average, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is nothing like record-smashing 2023. But it ‘s the third year in the row with near-average or above-average snowpack."

Agriculture [65]
Infrastructure [32]
Natural Resources [42]
People & Population [23]
Planning & Growth [66]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [18]
California [67]
Source: CalMatters [68], 04/01/2025
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CA Suspends Environmental Laws To Speed Rebuilding Of Utilities After Fires [69]

"In a continued effort to expedite rebuilding after Los Angeles' devastating firestorms, Gov. Gavin Newsom this week suspended California environmental laws for utility providers working to reinstall key infrastructure."

Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [54]
Public [18]
California [67]
Source: LA Times [70], 04/01/2025
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