EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Plans To Curb States’ Clean Water Act Permitting Power" [9]

"The Trump administration issued a proposal Tuesday that would clamp down on state water quality reviews and veto authority under the Clean Water Act."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [21], 01/14/2026
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"Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments" [22]

"Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 01/14/2026
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"Detroiters Grapple With Unknowns As Lead, Arsenic Found At Demo Sites" [27]

"Arsenic and lead are among the contaminants found at dozens of Detroit neighborhood demolition sites, according to the first round of test results released by the city late last month amid state and local investigations — at least one criminal — into potentially toxic dirt used as backfill across hundreds of vacant lots."

Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [29]
Public [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Source: Detroit Free Press [31], 01/14/2026
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"Gaza’s Living Conditions Worsen As Strong Winds And Hypothermia Kill 5" [32]

"Strong winter winds collapsed walls onto flimsy tents for Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing at least four people, hospital authorities said Tuesday."

Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Military [34]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Middle East [35]
Source: AP [36], 01/14/2026
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"US Carbon Emissions Rose In 2025 As Coal Produced More Power" [37]

"The new data bucked the general trend of declining emissions, as booming electricity demand and higher natural gas prices gave coal a temporary opening in the market."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [38]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Canary Media [39], 01/14/2026
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"As MAHA Wages War On Pesticides, The GOP Is Caught In The Middle" [40]

"The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement’s crusade against pesticides is creating divisions in the Republican Party, as some members back the industry while others stand with MAHA activists."

Agriculture [41]
Chemicals [28]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [43], 01/14/2026
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Coal Communities Protest House Cutting Abandoned Mine Lands Clean Up Funds [44]

"The House passed a bill last week that would “repurpose” $500 million meant for cleaning up environmental and safety hazards caused by decades of coal mining."

Biodiversity [45]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [47]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [16]
Waste [29]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 01/14/2026
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"North Carolina Pushes Back as EPA Moves To Scale Back PFAS Reporting" [49]

"After decades of PFAS contamination, North Carolina’s attorney general is challenging an EPA proposal to narrow reporting requirements for toxic 'forever chemicals.'"

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: WRAL [52], 01/14/2026
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"Republicans Resurrect Failed Public Land Sell-Off Scheme" [53]

"The Republican Study Committee on Tuesday published a framework for a second reconciliation package that calls for selling off federal public lands to build housing, adopting a contentious proposal previously championed by Utah Sen. Mike Lee."

Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [47]
Planning & Growth [54]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Public Domain [55], 01/14/2026
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Megacity Lagos Reshapes Its Coast By Dredging And Puts Environment At Risk [56]

"Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people."

Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [47]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Africa [57]
Source: AP [58], 01/14/2026
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"EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution" [59]

"In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [23]
Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [60]
Health [61]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [16]
Science [62]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [63], 01/13/2026
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Judge Allows Offshore Wind Farm To Keep Building After Trump Opposition [64]

"A federal judge on Monday temporarily allowed an offshore wind farm to keep building after yet another attempt by the Trump administration to halt it."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [65], 01/13/2026
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"Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet" [66]

"By pulling the United States out of the main international climate treaty, seizing Venezuelan crude oil and using government power to resuscitate the domestic coal industry while choking off clean energy, the Trump administration is not just ignoring climate change, it is likely making the problem worse."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [62]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [67]
Source: NYTimes [68], 01/13/2026
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High Court Hears Arguments In Suit Over Damage To Louisiana Coast [69]

"The Supreme Court on Monday morning grappled with a dispute in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana over whether oil and gas companies can move a lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for damage to the Louisiana coast to federal court."

Biodiversity [45]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Fish & Fisheries [70]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: SCOTUSblog [71], 01/13/2026
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"Trump Administration Moves To Reverse Mining Ban Near Boundary Waters" [72]

"The Trump administration and northeast Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber are taking action to end a 20-year mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area that was imposed three years ago under former President Joe Biden."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [70]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [47]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [73]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Source: MPR [74], 01/13/2026
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