EJToday: Top Headlines

Proposed Dominion Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says [9]

"The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 09/19/2025
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Hurricane Helene Hit NC A Year Ago. Some Students Never Returned To School [22]

"When 12-year-old Natalie Briggs visited the ruins of her home after Hurricane Helene, she had to tightrope across a wooden beam to reach what was once her bedroom."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Justice [13]
Government [24]
Infrastructure [15]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: AP/BRPR [28], 09/19/2025
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Maryland Joins Multistate Coalition To Buck Trump Vaccine Policies [29]

"Maryland has joined a growing coalition of states that are setting their own public health guidelines to counter the Trump administration’s more restrictive vaccine policies, a health department spokesperson said Thursday."

Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [31]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Technology [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: States Newsroom [33], 09/19/2025
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‘Sun Day’: Climate Activists To Rally For Clean Energy Amid Trump Attacks [34]

"Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency"

Activism [35]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [18]
Technology [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Guardian [36], 09/19/2025
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National Academy Of Sciences Rebuffs Trump EPA Effort To Undo Climate Rules [37]

"Evidence that climate change harms public health is “beyond scientific dispute,” the independent National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark U.S. government finding to that effect that underpins key environmental regulations."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [38]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: AP [39], 09/18/2025
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"Trump Escalates Attacks on Political Opponents After Charlie Kirk’s Killing" [40]

"President Trump and his top advisers are escalating their attacks on their opponents in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, placing the blame for political violence on Democrats alone and signaling a broad crackdown on critics and left-leaning institutions."

Activism [35]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [38]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [42], 09/18/2025
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Human-Made Global Warming ‘Caused 2 In 3 Heat Deaths In Europe This Summer’ [43]

"Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases". "Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Science [38]
Public [19]
Europe [44]
Source: Guardian [45], 09/18/2025
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120 Environmental Defenders Killed Or Disappeared In Latin America Last Year [46]

"At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Global Witness."

Activism [35]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Military [47]
Natural Resources [48]
People & Population [17]
Public [19]
International [49]
Central America & the Caribbean [50]
South America [51]
Source: AP [52], 09/18/2025
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"Scientists Take On Trump: These Researchers Are Fighting Back" [53]

"Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [38]
Technology [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Nature [54], 09/18/2025
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Challenge to Maryland Offshore Wind Project Stokes Legal Concerns [55]

"The Trump Administration wants to vacate approval of US Wind’s Maryland project. Experts believe the move could be illegal and could jeopardize the clean energy transition nationwide."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Technology [32]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 09/18/2025
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Musk Companies May Have Sidestepped Criticized Environmental Regulations [57]

"Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation, especially given the quick timelines his companies prefer to operate on."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [18]
Technology [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [58]
Source: ProPublica [59], 09/18/2025
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Trump EPA Will Defend Biden Rule Making Polluters Pay For PFAS Cleanup [60]

"The Trump administration says it will defend a Biden era-rule that is expected to keep polluters on the hook to clean up toxic “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [61]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: The Hill [62], 09/18/2025
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Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings As They Fight Regs [63]

"Manufacturers sued to stop a Colorado law requiring air quality warnings, arguing gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites once said the opposite."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [18]
Technology [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Grist [64], 09/18/2025
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"Trump Golf Course In Scotland Accused Of Breaching Sewage Limits" [65]

"Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019, documents reveal."

Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [15]
Pollution [18]
Waste [66]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [19]
Europe [44]
Source: Guardian [67], 09/18/2025
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"Climate Change Is Accelerating, Scientists Find In ‘Grim’ Report" [68]

"The amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached, according to a recent report by the world’s top climate scientists."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [18]
Science [38]
Public [19]
International [49]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [69], 09/17/2025
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