EJToday: Top Headlines

"Brazil Pushes For Early COP30 Climate Deal On Fossil Fuels And Finance" [9]

"Brazil proposes two-stage deal to expedite COP30 negotiations. Disagreements persist on finance and emissions cuts. Group of countries call for roadmap to ditch fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 11/19/2025
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"Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People" [16]

"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."

Air [17]
Chemicals [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Transportation [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Africa [25]
Source: NYTimes [26], 11/19/2025
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Alberta Wants To Release Treated Oilsands Waste Into The Athabasca River [27]

"Seven months after the Liberal Party vowed to “immediately introduce and pass legislation” affirming the right of First Nations to clean drinking water, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government says they’re still working on it."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
Canada [30]
Source: The Narwhal [31], 11/19/2025
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"Cost-Conscious Utilities Resist Trump’s Push For Nuclear Revival" [32]

"The administration has yet to convince major utilities to commit to building large reactors again."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [33]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [35], 11/19/2025
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"Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico" [36]

"Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a plan to sell oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The groups say the sale violates a core environmental law and threatens coastal communities and endangered whales."

Activism [37]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [39]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 11/19/2025
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"What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic" [42]

"After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did. Experts say ProPublica’s analysis offers a plausible explanation for how the wind could have helped spread the virus, exposing a flaw in the USDA’s playbook to fight it."

Agriculture [43]
Consumer [44]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [45]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: ProPublica [46], 11/19/2025
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"UN Maritime Chief Links Rise Of Dark Fleet To Worker Abuses" [47]

"The head of the United Nations' maritime agency warned of a disturbing rise in the criminalisation of seafarers, driven by geopolitical tensions and a surge in substandard shipping practices linked to the so-called dark fleet operating outside international norms."

Disasters [48]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [20]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Transportation [23]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [49], 11/19/2025
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"Trump Plan Waives Protection At +80% Of Wetlands" [50]

"In some states, more than 90 percent of wetlands could be excluded from safeguards provided by the Clean Water Act."

Agriculture [43]
Biodiversity [51]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [52]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [53], 11/19/2025
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"Data-Center Power Forecasts Climb To Unreachable Heights" [54]

"Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in fossil gas."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [55]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Canary Media [56], 11/19/2025
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Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Constitution Rewrite [57]

"Ecuadorians on Sunday rejected their president’s attempt to rewrite the constitution, a move that would likely have doomed the world’s only constitutional recognition of the rights of nature."

Activism [37]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [58]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
South America [59]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 11/19/2025
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EPA Moves To Limit Scope Of Clean Water Law To Reduce Wetlands It Covers [61]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas."

Agriculture [43]
Biodiversity [51]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [55]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [58]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Wildlife [62]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [63], 11/18/2025
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"Brazil Says It’s A Climate Leader. Not Everyone Buys It." [64]

"Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the country as a global environmental leader. Instead, Brazil’s own domestic environmental policy is in disarray, as the summit known as COP30 struggles to offer a counterpoint to the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to promote fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [48]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
International [14]
South America [59]
Source: Washington Post [65], 11/18/2025
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In Brazil, Ag Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds [66]

"Agribusiness companies enlisted an army of Brazilian social media influencers ahead of the United Nations climate summit, now underway in the Amazonian city of Belém, where the meat industry’s surging greenhouse gas emissions and role in deforestation are high on the agenda."

Agriculture [43]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [67]
Public [13]
International [14]
South America [59]
Source: DeSmog [68], 11/18/2025
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"‘This Is Survival’: Jamaica Leads Calls From Vulnerable Nations At Cop30" [69]

"Jamaica has led calls from vulnerable nations at the Cop30 climate summit to urge immediate action on climate breakdown as the conference entered its second week."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [48]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Guardian [70], 11/18/2025
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"FEMA Chief Steps Down As Trump Administration Prepared To Oust Him" [71]

"The embattled acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will step down after hurricane season following months of public controversy and internal frustration."

Disasters [48]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: CNN [72], 11/18/2025
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