EJToday: Top Headlines

Humans Are Wiping Out Wetlands That Life Depends On, New Report Says [9]

"Wetlands provide freshwater, food, storm protection and climate regulation. Yet over the last 50 years, humans have destroyed one-fifth of them." "A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that underpin all life on Earth."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
International [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 07/16/2025
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New Invasive Mussel Threatens Calif. Water Supplies. Can State Stop Its Spread? [23]

"Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes unprotected. “There’s just too many boats and too many people out there,” one warden said."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Health [24]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Infrastructure [25]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
California [27]
Source: CalMatters [28], 07/16/2025
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"Critics Fear Trump Will Use Flawed DOE Report To Push Pro-Coal Agenda" [29]

"Grid experts say DOE’s new forecast of major blackout risks by 2030 misuses data to justify the Trump administration’s push to force dirty plants to stay open."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [30]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [32]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Canary Media [33], 07/16/2025
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"Killer In The Nest: How Young Storks Are Being Strangled By Plastic" [34]

"Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species too, say experts in the US, UK and Argentina"

Biodiversity [11]
Consumer [35]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [32]
Waste [36]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
International [21]
Europe [37]
Source: Guardian [38], 07/16/2025
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How Removing Old New England Dams Is Opening Rivers To New Wildlife [39]

"The silvery water of the Royal River glistens as sunlight strikes its surface on an overcast afternoon. The modest waterway flows an easy 39 miles from southern Maine’s Sabbathday Lake to the Atlantic coast at Casco Bay, attracting kayakers, paddleboarders, and great blue heron."

Activism [40]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Infrastructure [25]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [41]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [42], 07/16/2025
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Trump Admin Says It Won’t Publish Climate Report On NASA Site As Promised [43]

"The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: AP [45], 07/15/2025
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"House Releases Interior-EPA Spending Bill With Deep Cuts" [46]

"House Republican appropriators unveiled their fiscal 2026 funding legislation for the Interior Department and EPA, with steep cuts proposed for both agencies."

Economy & Business [47]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [32]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [48], 07/15/2025
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"Wildfire Destroys A Historic Grand Canyon Lodge And Other Structures" [49]

"A fast-moving wildfire destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of other structures on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, forcing officials to close access to that area for the season, the park said Sunday."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [30]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: AP [51], 07/15/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Program Nixes Membership For Virginia Tribal Nations For Now [52]

"Recognized for their environmental stewardship rooted in ancestral practices, seven tribes in Virginia are seeking full membership in the Chesapeake Bay Program alongside its existing signatory partners"

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Justice [53]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Government [54]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [55]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 07/15/2025
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Osprey Came Back From The Brink Once. Now Chicks Are Dying In Nests [58]

"Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It’s a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns."

Biodiversity [11]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [56]
Source: AP [59], 07/15/2025
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Recurrent Wildfires Across The Mediterranean Region Changing Landscape [60]

"Multiple countries in the Mediterranean region have been battling intense wildfires this summer, including France, Greece, Syria and Turkey. These aggressive, recurring fires suggests a new normal of altered lives, landscapes and economies in the Mediterranean basin."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [30]
Public [20]
International [21]
Europe [37]
Middle East [61]
Source: France24 [62], 07/15/2025
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"An Ohio Solar Project Overcomes Local Opposition And Misinformation" [63]

"A contested solar agrivoltaics project avoided having its permit denied by Ohio regulators, likely thanks to the neutral stances of a county board and one of its townships."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [64]
Source: Canary Media [65], 07/15/2025
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"US Delays Rule On Gulf Of Mexico Whale Protections By Two Years" [66]

"U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court."

Biodiversity [11]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Reuters [67], 07/15/2025
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"Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding" [68]

"Kerr County failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [30]
Infrastructure [25]
Journalism & Media [44]
People & Population [55]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: NYTimes [69], 07/15/2025
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New Natural Food Dye OKd as FDA Pressures Industry To Drop Red Dye No. 3 [70]

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved another naturally derived food dye on Monday, making good on one of its key promises in the effort to rid the US food system of petroleum-based synthetic dyes."

Chemicals [71]
Consumer [35]
Food [72]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: The New Lede [73], 07/15/2025
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