EJToday: Top Headlines

"Zeldin Disciplined EPA Dissenters After Ethics Office Found No ‘Concern’" [9]

"Ethics staff at EPA found last summer that employees who signed an open dissent letter were within their rights to do so, internal emails show. Nevertheless, the agency suspended most and fired some, a controversial move seen as silencing their criticism and is now being challenged by litigation."

Activism [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 03/12/2026
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"Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — but Also to Coal" [18]

"Environmentalists say the war’s effects on oil and gas prices are an argument for countries to get off fossil fuels. But the reality is likely to be messier."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [11]
Military [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [15]
Middle East [22]
Source: NYTimes [23], 03/12/2026
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Human Waste Backing Up In Basements Shows US Infrastructure Problems [24]

"At least 18.7 million people are served by one of roughly 1,000 utilities that are in serious violation of pollution limits. At least 2.7 million live with a system that violated federal clean water rules continually over the last three years, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data."

Consumer [25]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [30], 03/12/2026
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"RFK Jr.’s Advisers Had A Plan To Target Covid Shots. Then It Fell Apart." [31]

"A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some Republicans warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage the party in the midterms."

Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [34], 03/12/2026
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“Report Card” Measures Congress Members’ Commitment To Wildlife Conservation [35]

"Defenders of Wildlife released its 2025 Conservation Report Card for the 119th Congress, measuring members’ commitment to upholding federal laws that protect wildlife conservation during its first session."

Biodiversity [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [14]
Wildlife [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: National Parks Traveler [38], 03/12/2026
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"War Brings New Water Crises to an Already-Parched Iran" [39]

"Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage." "The war in Iran has exposed the country’s water woes, which had been pushed to the brink by climate change, excessive agricultural use and decades of mismanagement."

Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [41]
Climate Change [42]
Disasters [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Military [20]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Middle East [22]
Source: NYTimes [43], 03/11/2026
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Iran War Unites Americans In Aggravation Over Sticker Shock At Gas Pump [44]

"Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy."

Climate Change [42]
Economy & Business [45]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [14]
Transportation [46]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [47], 03/11/2026
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UN Climate Change Report: ‘Parts Of The Planet Will Become Uninhabitable’ [48]

"The U.N. report warns climate change will likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks."

Climate Change [42]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [49]
Source: AP [50], 03/11/2026
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"Air Pollution Spikes As Trump Doubles Down On Coal Power" [51]

"Air pollution from coal-fired power plants spiked in 2025, a striking reversal of long-term progress in air quality as the Trump administration boosted coal use." "EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants."

Air [52]
Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
Pollution [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [54], 03/11/2026
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North Carolina Complaint System For Factory Farms Doesn't Work Very Well [55]

"Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs."

Agriculture [40]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [56]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [21]
Waste [57]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 03/11/2026
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Amid Cuts to Fish & Wildlife Service, Species Like Florida Panther Languish [60]

"Florida conservation groups say they plan to sue after the federal government greenlit another development that threatens the habitat of the panther, the official state animal."

Biodiversity [36]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Wildlife [37]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 03/11/2026
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Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement, But Data Tells a Different Story [62]

"The EPA released its latest enforcement and compliance report and touted the agency’s crackdown on environmental crimes under the Trump administration, yet 75 percent of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before the president took office."

Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [56]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 03/11/2026
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"Trump Administration Again Sued Over Alaska Public Lands 'Giveaway'" [64]

"A coalition of organizations has again sued the Trump administration for its 'giveaway' of federal lands in Alaska for industrial purposes. At issue are the steps the administration has taken to allow a 211-mile-long road across a pristine stretch of the state, passing through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and crossing the Kobuk Wild River, to access the site of a proposed copper mine."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [36]
Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
Water & Oceans [29]
Wildlife [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: National Parks Traveler [65], 03/11/2026
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"Report Raises Alarm Over GMO Wheat As It Inches Closer To US Fields" [66]

"A genetically modified wheat under development in the US would increase the use of an herbicide that is linked to soil, water and fetal harm, according to a new report."

Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [41]
Consumer [25]
Food [67]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [21]
Technology [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [68], 03/11/2026
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Wildflowers Bloom In The Driest Place In North America — But Not For Long [69]

"Death Valley, known as the driest place in North America, is teeming with life with a once-in-a-decade blossoming of wildflowers known as a superbloom, transforming a normally brown desert landscape into carpets of gold."

Biodiversity [36]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [15]
California [70]
Source: AP [71], 03/11/2026
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