EJToday: Top Headlines

"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol" [9]

"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northwest (OR WA) [21]
Source: KING5 [22], 08/29/2025
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‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [23]

"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."

Biodiversity [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
Africa [27]
Source: AP [28], 08/29/2025
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Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others [29]

"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Military [16]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [32]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The New Lede [34], 08/29/2025
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"These Investigators Patrol Las Vegas Looking For One Thing: Water Waste" [35]

"About two dozen investigators patrol neighborhoods throughout Las Vegas every day searching for signs of wasted water. They're known as water waste investigators who are part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. For more than 20 years, they have been helping conserve water in the growing desert city."

Consumer [36]
Government [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [38]
Source: NPR [39], 08/29/2025
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"Planting Vines And Other Ways Hot Cities Are Creating Cool Spaces" [40]

"As Spain takes a breath after yet another brutal summer heatwave, with temperatures above 40C in many parts of the country, the residents of the sherry-making town of Jerez de la Frontera have come up with a novel way to keep the streets cool."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [31]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Technology [33]
Public [19]
International [42]
Europe [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 08/29/2025
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White House Fires CDC Director Who Says RFK Jr. Is ‘Weaponizing Public Health’ [45]

"The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [37]
Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [32]
Science [47]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Source: Washington Post [48], 08/28/2025
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Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Pushes Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals [49]

"President Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the United States, he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [50]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Science [47]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Source: NYTimes [51], 08/28/2025
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FEMA Employees Put On Leave After Letter Criticizing Trump Administration [52]

"The Trump administration placed more than 30 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership, according to people familiar with the situation and documents reviewed by The Washington Post."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [53], 08/28/2025
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"Trump Administration Presses Rollback Of ‘Roadless Rule’ On Wild Lands" [54]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California."

Biodiversity [24]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [26]
Wildlife [55]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: LA Times [56], 08/28/2025
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"The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill" [57]

"A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals."

Energy & Fuel [50]
Environmental Health [31]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 08/28/2025
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"Trump Administration Investigates California EPA Over Diversity Practices" [59]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it is opening an investigation into the California Environmental Protection Agency, including the powerful California Air Resources Board, over potentially discriminatory employment practices."

Air [60]
Diversity [61]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [62]
Source: LA Times [63], 08/28/2025
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"How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers" [64]

"The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted them, a new report shows."

Biodiversity [24]
Economy & Business [65]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [32]
Waste [66]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [42]
Central America & the Caribbean [67]
South America [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 08/28/2025
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"Proposed NASA Cuts Could Affect Public Health Research" [70]

"From space, NASA collects data that’s crucial for public health. Potential cuts could threaten that work."

Biodiversity [24]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [71]
Forests [14]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [32]
Science [47]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Undark [72], 08/28/2025
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"Parks And Museums Emerge As New Culture War Battlegrounds" [73]

"U.S. parks and museums are becoming the latest battleground in the nation’s culture wars as President Trump seeks changes to the way national parks and the Smithsonian tell the story of America."

Biodiversity [24]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [74]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [75], 08/28/2025
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"Hurricane Science Has Come Far Since Katrina. That Progress Is Now At Risk" [76]

"In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, hurricane scientists have made great strides toward understanding how climate change influences tropical cyclones, at the same time as they have vastly improved hurricane forecasting. Better forecasts, in turn, save the country billions every time a storm makes landfall, according to a 2024 analysis published in the National Bureau of Economic Research."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [71]
Government [37]
Infrastructure [41]
People & Population [18]
Transportation [77]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [78]
Source: NPR [79], 08/28/2025
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