EJToday: Top Headlines

Wisc. Communities Affected By PFAS Await Action On $125 Million Trust Fund [9]

"Around the state, several communities with "forever chemical" contamination have been counting on the Legislature passing a bill to help them, but as the summer stretches on, many advocates are worried that lawmakers will fail to pass yet another proposal."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [17]
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [18], 08/14/2025
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New Draft Of Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Wouldn’t Limit Production [19]

"Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn’t limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [15]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
International [26]
Source: AP [27], 08/14/2025
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"Syngenta Closer To Settling Thousands Of US Paraquat Lawsuits" [28]

"Syngenta is another step closer to potentially putting an end to thousands of lawsuits brought by people blaming the company’s paraquat weed killer for causing Parkinson’s disease."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: The New Lede [32], 08/14/2025
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Florida’s First Black Bear Hunt In A Decade Approved Despite Opposition [33]

"The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade will take place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials despite strong opposition to the eventual use of dogs and targeting the animals in baited locations."

Biodiversity [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [23]
Wildlife [35]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: AP [37], 08/14/2025
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Trump Relaxes Rules For Rocket Launches, Seeming To Benefit Musk And Bezos [38]

"Companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin may be able to forgo reviews required under National Environmental Policy Act"

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 08/14/2025
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"Green Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Report Downplaying Climate Damage" [42]

"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science."

Activism [43]
Climate Change [44]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: The Hill [47], 08/13/2025
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"Sierra Club Staff Says Boss’s Ouster Is ‘A Relief’" [48]

"Ben Jealous is officially out as the Sierra Club’s boss after two turbulent years marked by infighting and drama inside the green group."

Activism [43]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: E&E News [49], 08/13/2025
- Read more about "Sierra Club Staff Says Boss’s Ouster Is ‘A Relief’" [48]
"'MAHA' Activists Urge Trump To Oppose Limits On Pesticide Regulation" [50]

"President Donald Trump should block the U.S. House from limiting the regulation of pesticides and "forever chemicals" in its environmental appropriations bill or risk losing Republican support, more than 200 activists aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" movement said in a letter to Trump."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: Reuters [51], 08/13/2025
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Alabama Dredging Project In Mobile Bay Brings Together Unlikely Allies [52]

"A customer is waiting as Patrick Gormandy steers his deep-water trawler — the Captain Sam B — back to the dock after a day of shrimping on Mobile Bay."

Biodiversity [34]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Infrastructure [54]
Natural Resources [23]
Transportation [55]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: NPR [56], 08/13/2025
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"Trump’s EPA to Expand Actions to Speed New Chemical Reviews" [57]

"The Trump administration’s EPA has seen success more quickly reviewing companies’ requests to make certain new chemicals and plans to expand its use of strategies that are speeding those decisions, a senior agency official said Monday."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [58], 08/13/2025
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"Interior Slashes Reviews To Speed Cleanups Of Orphaned Wells" [59]

"Trump administration officials have removed endangered species and historic preservation reviews from federal orphaned well programs, potentially speeding the cleanup of tens of thousands of abandoned sites."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [54]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: E&E News [60], 08/13/2025
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"Explosion At US Steel Plant In Pennsylvania Leaves 2 Dead, 10 Injured" [61]

"An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh left two dead and sent at least 10 to hospitals Monday and heavily damaged the sprawling facility, officials said."

Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [54]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [62]
Source: AP [63], 08/13/2025
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"Trump’s Push To Mine Deep-Sea Battery Metals Draws Ire From Allies" [64]

"The Trump administration is on a rogue quest to mine critical minerals from the ocean floor — and recent global negotiations over the fate of deep-sea mining reveal just how alone the U.S. is on the issue."

Biodiversity [34]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [45]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
International [26]
Source: Canary Media [65], 08/13/2025
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Juneau Asks Some Residents To Leave Area As Glacial Flooding Nears [66]

"Officials in Alaska’s capital city are asking residents to voluntarily evacuate from parts of the Mendenhall Valley ahead of an expected glacial flood this week."

Climate Change [44]
Disasters [39]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [67]
Source: Alaska Beacon [68], 08/13/2025
- Read more about Juneau Asks Some Residents To Leave Area As Glacial Flooding Nears [66]
"Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer" [69]

"Summer heat in New York City beats down on asphalt and tall buildings, which get hotter, scorching the locals, who can’t stop sweating. Exhaust from trucks and cars hangs in the air and the subway stations trap extreme amounts of heat."

Climate Change [44]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [54]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [31]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 08/13/2025
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