EJToday: Top Headlines

"Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?" [9]

"Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for forest conservation, but some ecologists and economists are raising concerns."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
International [17]
South America [18]
Source: YaleE360 [19], 11/04/2025
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"Mussels Reveal Growing Microplastic Pollution In Greece's Prized Seas" [20]

"Overtourism and heavy maritime traffic across the Mediterranean are contributing to a rise in pollution in Greece's azure waters, say Greek scientists who have deployed thousands of mussels on the seafloor to help detect microplastics."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
Africa [26]
Europe [27]
Source: Reuters [28], 11/04/2025
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"Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants" [29]

"The U.S. Department of Energy has announced up to $100 million in federal funding for projects modernizing the nation’s remaining coal plants, nearly half of which were slated to close by 2030."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 11/04/2025
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How Powerful Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out [36]

"In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators."

Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 11/04/2025
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"Video Shows Orcas Hunting Great White Sharks And Devouring Their Livers" [40]

"A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open." "Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
International [17]
Mexico [42]
Source: NBC News [43], 11/04/2025
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"Energy Bills Are Rising Nationwide. In Georgia, They’re On The Ballot." [44]

"The race for two seats on the obscure board that regulates Georgia’s utilities is drawing national attention — and could have major implications both for electricity affordability and one of the biggest planned fossil-fuel buildouts in the nation."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [22]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Canary Media [45], 11/03/2025
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"CBS News Just Gutted Its Climate Team" [46]

"Americans who rely on broadcast networks for honest journalism suffered a painful loss this week, as CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Climate Colored Goggles [48], 11/03/2025
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Wash. Court Restores $185 Million Verdict For Teachers Poisoned By PCBs [49]

"The Washington Supreme Court this week restored a $185 million verdict against the former Monsanto company, now owned by Bayer, over toxic chemicals in a state school building that allegedly poisoned three teachers."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [50]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Northwest (OR WA) [51]
Source: The New Lede [52], 11/03/2025
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"EPA: Superfund Cleanup ‘Likely’ Fouled Pennsylvania Town’s Water" [53]

"Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [54]
People & Population [50]
Pollution [15]
Waste [55]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: E&E News [57], 11/03/2025
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Sludge Is Used As Fertilizer Across Wisconsin. How Much Is Tainted By PFAS? [58]

"Sludge and septage are spread across around half a million acres statewide, but most of it has never been tested for PFAS"

Agriculture [59]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [60]
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio [61], 11/03/2025
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"Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S." [62]

"Even though it delivers airtight data and analysis essential for understanding and managing the risks industrial societies pose to water, land, and health, the U.S. Geological Survey is a federal science agency that rarely attracts public notice."

Agriculture [59]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [50]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Circle of Blue [63], 11/03/2025
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"EPA Retreats From Plans To End The Energy Star Program" [64]

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has quietly retreated from plans to eliminate Energy Star, a popular program whose iconic blue labels help consumers choose energy-efficient dishwashers, refrigerators and other home appliances."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [65]
Journalism & Media [47]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: NYTimes [66], 11/03/2025
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"Melissa Dissipates, Leaves Destruction And At Least 50 Dead In Caribbean" [67]

"Melissa, one of the strongest storms on record to make landfall in the Caribbean, began to dissipate on Friday after sowing devastation across much of Jamaica, cutting off communities in Cuba, drenching Haiti and leaving at least 50 dead."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [68]
Infrastructure [32]
People & Population [50]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Central America & the Caribbean [69]
Source: Reuters [70], 11/03/2025
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Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop Toxic Wastewater From Oil Field [71]

"Oil companies have polluted groundwater and the environment by injecting oil field waste deep into the earth at pressures high enough to violate Oklahoma law. ... The regulatory agency says it ... has not fined any company for wastewater leaks in the last five years."

Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [72]
Source: The Frontier [73], 11/03/2025
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After Decades, Green Sea Turtles Have Been Saved From Extinction — for Now [74]

"Earlier this month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported that the global population of green turtles has increased nearly 30 percent since the 1970s, thanks to a suite of international actions aimed at saving the animals."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
International [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [75], 11/03/2025
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