EJToday: Top Headlines

"West Virginia Scrambles To Strip Artificial Dyes From School Meals" [9]

"When school starts in West Virginia next month, 240,000 students in districts large and small will notice something missing from their cafeteria trays. Gone will be red Jell-O fruit cups, yogurt topped with brightly hued sprinkles and and older verisons of Cool Ranch Doritos — all foods made with synthetic dyes."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: AP [18], 08/05/2025
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"Pesticide Manufacturer Spent More Than $200K Lobbying In Iowa" [19]

"Bayer, the biotech company and manufacturer of Round Up, has substantially increased its spending on lobbying in Iowa since the introduction of a pesticide labeling bill in 2024."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [23]
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch [24], 08/05/2025
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"New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws" [25]

"New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [30]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 08/05/2025
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Trump May Destroy NASA Climate Satellites That Scientists And Farmers Rely On [33]

"The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Technology [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: NPR [35], 08/05/2025
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"Scientists Crack The Case Of The Melting Sea Stars. It Only Took A Decade" [36]

"Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade. They have identified the pathogen behind one of the world’s biggest disease outbreaks: a wasting disease that has turned billions of sea stars into goo — from Alaska to California."

Biodiversity [37]
Disasters [38]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Natural Resources [40]
Science [41]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Canada [44]
Source: KUOW [45], 08/05/2025
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‘Fire Clouds’ Over Arizona And Utah Wildfires Make Erratic Weather Systems [46]

"Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they are spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems."

Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: AP [47], 08/04/2025
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"Eroding Protections For Public Lands" [48]

"The U.S. Congress has passed hundreds of laws protecting federal public lands over the past century through bipartisan efforts and with the support of local governments. Now, President Donald Trump’s administration and some Republican lawmakers in Congress are pushing policies and legislation that upend these protections."

Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [37]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [49]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Reuters [51], 08/04/2025
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The Oil Industry Wrote a Wishlist. Trump Interior Department Is Delivering. [52]

"A top oil trade group submitted a policy wishlist to top DOI appointees. The Department is moving quickly to give industry what it wants."

Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [49]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Public Domain [53], 08/04/2025
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"EPA Research Cuts Stoke Fears Over Scientific Independence" [54]

"“This is a very baffling moment in time,” said one researcher. “I never would have thought we had to advocate for science.”"

Air [55]
Biodiversity [37]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Studies [56]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [22]
Science [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: E&E News [57], 08/04/2025
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"Biggest US Offshore Wind Project Marches Ahead Despite Trump Attacks" [58]

"The largest planned offshore wind project in the U.S. is 60 percent complete and is on track to begin delivering electricity early next year."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [22]
Technology [30]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: E&E News [59], 08/04/2025
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"Enviros Are Reeling In Trump’s ‘Scorched-Earth’ Second Term" [60]

"“We just lost a decade’s worth of work,” said one green group leader."

Activism [61]
Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [26]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [62]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: E&E News [63], 08/04/2025
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"How Flood-Ravaged Boston Took On The Climate Deniers – And Won" [64]

"As the Trump administration dismisses global heating, the coastal city is getting on with becoming one of the most climate resilient in the world. Here’s how"

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [29]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [65]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [66]
Source: Guardian [67], 08/04/2025
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"Trump’s EPA Puts California In Its Crosshairs With Its Proposed Car Rules" [68]

"Documents supporting the EPA’s plan to roll back vehicle emission standards reference California by name nearly 30 times. For more than 50 years, California has had special authority from the EPA to set strict tailpipe emission standards. The agency’s own analysis indicates that without California’s leadership and tax credits created under President Biden, national adoption of electric vehicles will decline and gasoline prices will increase."

Air [55]
Climate Change [26]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [22]
Technology [30]
Transportation [69]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
California [70]
Source: LA Times [71], 08/04/2025
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"‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future" [72]

"Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [38]
Economy & Business [27]
Infrastructure [29]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [65]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [16]
International [73]
Europe [74]
Source: YaleE360 [75], 08/04/2025
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"Stalking the Elusive Hellbender" [76]

"These rare salamanders, which can grow to over two feet long, lurk in the wild rivers of Appalachia. To spot one, you’ll need a snorkel, and some luck."

Biodiversity [37]
Natural Resources [40]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [34]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [77]
Source: NYTimes [78], 08/04/2025
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