EJToday: Top Headlines

"RFK Jr. Wants More Air Pollution Research, But EPA Shut Down Its Lab" [9]

"Researching air quality is key to improving kids’ health, according to a new strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission unveiled Tuesday by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. There’s just one problem: EPA, under Zeldin’s leadership, has shuttered the preeminent laboratory in the country studying air pollution’s impact on people."

Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Technology [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 09/12/2025
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"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less." [21]

"Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn."

Agriculture [22]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [24]
Government [25]
People & Population [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Capital & Main [26], 09/12/2025
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"Johnson Backs Virginia Wind Project In Break With Trump" [27]

"House Speaker Mike Johnson is going to bat for an offshore wind project located off Virginia Beach at a time when the Trump administration has halted the construction of similar projects and the president himself has warned that support for the industry could cost politicians their careers."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: E&E News [35], 09/12/2025
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"House Republicans Add To Support For Maintaining NIH Budget In 2026" [36]

"Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A bill released today would give the agency a base budget of about $47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, essentially the same level as this year."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [37]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Science [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Science [38], 09/12/2025
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"Building Toward Disaster: Growth Collides With Rising Seas In Charleston" [39]

"A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be forced to move?"

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [30]
People & Population [14]
Planning & Growth [40]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: Floodlight [42], 09/12/2025
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"Smoke From 2023 Canada Fires Linked To Thousands Of Deaths: Study" [43]

"Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfires exposed more than 350 million people in North America and Europe to air pollution that likely contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, according to new estimates published Wednesday."

Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [44]
Canada [45]
Source: Phys.org [46], 09/12/2025
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"Public Lands Were Made Free to All" [47]

"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."

Biodiversity [48]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Sierra [50], 09/12/2025
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Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil [51]

"California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
California [52]
Source: CalMatters [53], 09/12/2025
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"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says" [54]

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Pollution [15]
Waste [56]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Source: E&E News [58], 09/12/2025
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Network Enables Indigenous People To Show Amazon Changes For Themselves [59]

"Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed some huge changes."

Activism [60]
Biodiversity [48]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Studies [61]
Forests [62]
Journalism & Media [63]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [49]
Public [18]
International [44]
South America [64]
Source: The Conversation [65], 09/12/2025
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Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land [66]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."

Biodiversity [48]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [62]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [67], 09/11/2025
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Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill [68]

"A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [69]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: WIRED [70], 09/11/2025
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Defense Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On Pentagon’s Use Of Toxic PFAS [71]

"Provisions in the House and Senate annual Defense authorization bills reduce restrictions on the Pentagon’s use of “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [72]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Military [73]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [74], 09/11/2025
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Study Links Big Heat Waves To Pollution From Major Fossil Fuel Producers [75]

"Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday."

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [18]
International [44]
Source: AP [76], 09/11/2025
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Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton That Fuels The Food Web: Study [77]

"For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up."

Biodiversity [48]
Climate Change [28]
Disasters [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [18]
International [44]
Source: AP [78], 09/11/2025
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