EJToday: Top Headlines

"Drought Is Quietly Pushing American Cities Toward A Fiscal Cliff" [9]

"Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Government [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Grist [16], 11/05/2025
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"Trump Killed A Crucial Disaster Database. This Nonprofit Just Saved It." [17]

"As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a warming world, nonprofits, state-level governments, and independent scientists are rushing to preserve the information."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Environmental Studies [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [23]
Science [24]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Grist [25], 11/05/2025
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Invasive Golden Mussels Upending Life In CA Delta, With No Help On The Way [26]

"One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. Yet the state has no specific funding or plans to tackle harms in the heart of the invasion."

Biodiversity [27]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Water & Oceans [13]
Wildlife [30]
Public [14]
California [31]
Source: CalMatters [32], 11/05/2025
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"Google Earth Gets an AI Chatbot to Help Chart the Climate Crisis" [33]

"New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Studies [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Technology [34]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [35]
Source: WIRED [36], 11/05/2025
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Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws: Report [37]

"With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws."

Air [38]
Chemicals [39]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [41]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [42]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: DeSmog [44], 11/04/2025
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"Poultry Plants Consistently Violate Salmonella Standards, Report Finds" [45]

"Several of the country’s largest chicken and turkey companies operate processing plants that routinely violate the federal government’s safety standards for salmonella contamination, according to a new analysis released by the animal welfare organization Farm Forward."

Agriculture [46]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [19]
Food [48]
Laws & Regulations [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Civil Eats [49], 11/04/2025
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"Emergency Language In Wildfire Bill Splits Environmentalists" [50]

"A fast-moving bill to reduce wildfire risks in national forests would give the Agriculture Department a work-around past even the bill’s modest environmental safeguards, making the measure tough to swallow for some environmentalists and Hill Democrats."

Disasters [18]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [52], 11/04/2025
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Citizen Pollution Monitoring Persists In Louisiana, Despite Law That Limits It [53]

"Communities around Louisiana, in a bid to get more information about the environmental and health impacts of industrial pollution, are taking data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their research findings can be used to enforce state regulations. "

Air [38]
Chemicals [39]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [42]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [54]
Source: Louisiana Illuminator [55], 11/04/2025
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Exxon-Funded Thinktanks To Spread Climate Denial In Latin America: Documents [56]

"Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
International [35]
South America [57]
Source: Guardian [58], 11/04/2025
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"Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?" [59]

"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 [27]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [42]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
International [35]
South America [57]
Source: YaleE360 [60], 11/04/2025
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"Mussels Reveal Growing Microplastic Pollution In Greece's Prized Seas" [61]

"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 [39]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [19]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Pollution [43]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Africa [62]
Europe [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 11/04/2025
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"Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants" [65]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [42]
Pollution [43]
Technology [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 11/04/2025
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How Powerful Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out [67]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [42]
Pollution [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 11/04/2025
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"Video Shows Orcas Hunting Great White Sharks And Devouring Their Livers" [69]

"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 [27]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Water & Oceans [13]
Wildlife [30]
Public [14]
International [35]
Mexico [70]
Source: NBC News [71], 11/04/2025
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"Energy Bills Are Rising Nationwide. In Georgia, They’re On The Ballot." [72]

"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 [10]
Consumer [47]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Environmental Politics [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Canary Media [73], 11/03/2025
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