EJToday: Top Headlines

"The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research." [9]

"President Trump has ordered what he called a restoration of a “gold standard science” across federal agencies and national laboratories. But the May 23 executive order puts his political appointees in charge of vetting scientific research and gives them the authority to “correct scientific information,” control the way it is communicated to the public and the power to “discipline” anyone who violates the way the administration views science."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 06/06/2025
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Trump EPA Rolling Back Rules Projected To Save Thousands Of Lives [22]

"When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy. What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human health."

Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [24], 06/06/2025
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"Air Pollution Messes Up Pregnant Women’s Metabolism, Spurs Preterm Births" [25]

"Researchers have long warned that tiny air pollutants — 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair — are linked to preterm births. Now they’re one step closer to knowing why: Breathing in these tiny particles — largely caused by traffic, industry, burning fossil fuels and wildfire smoke — disrupts the molecules in pregnant women’s blood, raising the risk for preterm and early births, according to a new study from Emory University."

Air [26]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The New Lede [28], 06/06/2025
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"Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas" [29]

"Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on site."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [32]
Pollution [17]
Technology [33]
Public [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 06/06/2025
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Storm Chasers Drive Into Hail Storms That Cause Billions In Annual Damage [36]

"As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: Hail."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Studies [15]
People & Population [27]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [38], 06/06/2025
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Months After Hurricane Helene, North Carolinians Struggle To Find Housing [39]

"Before the remnants of Hurricane Helene swamped this town, the Super 8 Motel, wedged between a highway and the Swannanoa River, provided affordable short and long-term housing for dozens of people who couldn't find affordable housing elsewhere."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [37]
Government [40]
Infrastructure [32]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: NPR [43], 06/06/2025
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FEMA Was Starting To Fix Long-Standing Problems. Then Came Trump Admin. [44]

"Recent fixes to long-standing problems at the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in jeopardy as the Trump administration slashes programs and cuts staff, emergency experts warn."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [37]
Economy & Business [30]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [45], 06/06/2025
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Federal Judge Dismisses Iowa Challenge To "Swampbuster" Wetlands Protections [46]

"A federal judge last week sided with environmental groups and US regulators in a dispute with an Iowa landowner over a Farm Bill provision that protects wetlands."

Agriculture [47]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [48]
Water & Oceans [41]
Wildlife [49]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The New Lede [50], 06/06/2025
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California’s Yurok Tribe Gets Back Ancestral Lands Taken Over 120 Years Ago [51]

"As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in Blue Creek amid northwestern California redwoods. Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by timber companies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands."

Environmental Justice [52]
Forests [53]
Government [40]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [48]
People & Population [27]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [54]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [55]
Source: AP [56], 06/06/2025
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Cutting Off Rhinos’ Horns Is A Last Resort To Stop Poaching. It Works. [57]

"Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered species from poaching."

Biodiversity [10]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [48]
Wildlife [49]
Public [19]
Africa [58]
Source: AP [59], 06/06/2025
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"Why Are So Many Of Canada’s Wildfires Burning ‘Out Of Control’?" [60]

"Many fires burning across Canada, forcing evacuations and threatening air quality in the United States, cannot simply be put out, authorities and experts say."

Air [26]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [37]
Forests [53]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Canada [61]
Source: Washington Post [62], 06/05/2025
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"Top CDC Covid Vaccine Adviser Quits After RFK Jr. Ended Recommendations" [63]

"A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [64]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [27]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [65], 06/05/2025
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Supt. Of Crater Lake National Park Resigns, Says Trump Dismantling Agency [66]

"Crater Lake National Park Superintendent Kevin Heatley has resigned, citing deep staffing cuts he says are unsustainable and damaging to one of the nation’s natural treasures."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [40]
Natural Resources [48]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: KGW8 [67], 06/05/2025
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"The Trump EPA Tried To Bury Some Good News" [68]

"A climate report acquired by a Freedom of Information Act request shows that U.S. climate pollution declined in 2023."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Journalism & Media [23]
Pollution [17]
Science [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [69], 06/05/2025
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"Senate to Add Public Land Sales to Help Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts" [70]

"Senate Republicans plan to add the sale of public land into their version of President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts, according to a key lawmaker."

Biodiversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [53]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [48]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg [71], 06/05/2025
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