EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System" [9]

"The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Science [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: New York Times [18], 06/02/2026
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"Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season" [19]

"With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of federal firefighting efforts and the departure of many staff qualified to join the fight are heightening concern."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 06/02/2026
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"Dangerous Chemical Plant Disasters Spotlight Trump’s Deregulatory Efforts" [26]

"Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents."

Chemicals [27]
Disasters [20]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [32], 06/02/2026
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DOD Bans Journalists From Press Office, Designating It A Classified Space [33]

"The Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space and banned journalists from accessing it to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions." "The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts."

Environmental Politics [11]
Government [29]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 06/02/2026
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"Dive Into a Very Noisy Sea With Some Very Rare Whales" [37]

"Fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain on Earth. Here’s what they sound like when they communicate. They live only in the Gulf of Mexico, where air guns firing sonic blasts are used to survey the ocean floor for oil and gas. The low frequency of the blasts overlaps with the frequency of the calls of the whales."

Biodiversity [38]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: New York Times [41], 06/02/2026
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"EPA Delays Reporting Requirements For Health-Harming Chemicals" [42]

"Federal regulators are giving chemical manufacturers and petroleum refiners more time to provide data on a group of chemicals that have been linked to human health harms as officials consider tighter regulations."

Chemicals [27]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [30]
Science [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [45], 06/01/2026
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"Trump Moves To Open Federal Lands To More Off-Road Vehicle Use" [46]

"Executive orders limiting off-road vehicle access to federal lands signed decades ago by Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter have been revoked by President Donald Trump, drawing concerns over possible impacts to Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands and perhaps some in the National Park System."

Biodiversity [38]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: National Parks Traveler [47], 06/01/2026
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SEC Repealing Rule That Requires Firms To Report Emissions And Climate Risk [48]

"In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [49]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: AP [50], 06/01/2026
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EPA Rollbacks Could Raise AC, Refrigeration Costs, Not Promised Savings [51]

"President Donald Trump said new regulatory rollbacks on chemical refrigerants will reduce the prices consumers pay for groceries and will not impact the environment. However, U.S. chemical, refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers said the changes will raise prices and his administration’s own projections show that greenhouse gas pollution will increase."

Chemicals [27]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 06/01/2026
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"Wildfires In 2025 Caused Global Havoc. Study Calls For Decisive Action" [53]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

First, the good news: A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 shows that the year had the second-lowest area burned since 2002.

But at the same time, the study also revealed that the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly fire events in recent history, including the catastrophic Los Angeles fires of January 2025 that killed dozens and burned over 12,000 homes.
Air [54]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Forests [22]
Government [29]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Canada [55]
Mexico [56]
Source: USA TODAY [57], 06/01/2026
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"Data Center Boom Raises Environmental Justice Concerns In Maryland" [58]

"As Staci Hartwell sees it, her community has much more to lose than to gain from the development of a massive data center."

Activism [59]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Justice [60]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [61]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: Bay Journal [62], 06/01/2026
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"Voters In 9 States Will Pick The People Overseeing Their Power Bills" [63]

"Public utility commissions have a ton of influence over utility rate hikes and power plant construction, but only a handful of states let voters decide who’s on them."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [49]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [44]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [64], 06/01/2026
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"Think It’s Hot Now? The Next Five Years Will Smash Records, UN Says" [65]

"In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Pollution [30]
Public [15]
International [17]
Source: AP [66], 06/01/2026
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"The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims" [67]

"There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans." "The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims."

Chemicals [27]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [68]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: WIRED [69], 06/01/2026
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"ESA Success Stories: Survival Of The Protected" [70]

"In 1782, when the United States adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol, anecdotal accounts stated that the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. By the mid-1900s, habitat destruction, illegal shooting, and DDT contamination had driven bald eagles near extinction."

Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: National Parks Traveler [71], 06/01/2026
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