EJToday: Top Headlines

Appeals Court Says Trump EPA Was Wrong To Kill $20 Billion Climate Fund [9]

"A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [20], 08/05/2026
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Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina [21]

"Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [16]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [25]
Technology [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 08/05/2026
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Wildfire Destroys About 230 Homes In B.C. Indigenous Community [29]

"A fast-moving wildfire destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada, officials said Tuesday, making it one of the country’s most destructive fires in recent years."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [24]
Public [18]
Canada [31]
Source: AP [32], 08/05/2026
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CDC Now Finds Largest Known Cyclosporiasis Outbreak In 15 States [33]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding the largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states, adding six states where illnesses have been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, according to three individuals familiar with the investigation."

Agriculture [34]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [13]
Food [35]
Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [25]
Waste [37]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mexico [39]
Source: Washington Post [40], 08/05/2026
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Crews Building Trump Border Wall In N.M. Ordered To Stop Drilling Wells [41]

"Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought."

Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Mexico [39]
Source: Guardian [44], 08/05/2026
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UK Plastic ‘Waste Colonialism’ Found To Be Polluting Turkey’s Farms [45]

"High levels of microplastics and other plastic contamination have been discovered in a waterway close to a major recycling hub in Turkey supplied with plastic waste by British companies."

Agriculture [34]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [18]
Europe [46]
Middle East [47]
Source: Guardian [48], 08/05/2026
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Louisiana Bets On Musk Rockets As Trump Targets Environmental Reviews [49]

"Louisiana is striving to become the next hub for the growing commercial space industry. The Trump administration could sweeten the pot by removing environmental reviews."

Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [23]
Pollution [25]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: E&E News [50], 08/05/2026
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5 Amazon Countries Arrest 100s In Crackdown On Environmental Crime [51]

"Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals and thousands of livestock in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns on environmental crime ever carried out in the world’s largest rainforest."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [42]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Justice [14]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [52]
Public [18]
South America [53]
Source: AP [54], 08/05/2026
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DiCaprio And Bezos Lead $200M Project To Save 100 Threatened Species [55]

"Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas."

Activism [10]
Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Politics [15]
Wildlife [52]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [56]
Source: AP [57], 08/05/2026
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Latin American News Startup: ‘The Most Accurate Truth’ [58]

"After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource."

Activism [10]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [59]
People & Population [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Central America & the Caribbean [60]
South America [53]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [61], 08/05/2026
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Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Line 5 Permit [62]

"Michigan’s highest court has ordered state energy regulators to redo their environmental review of Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac."

Disasters [30]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [63]
Source: E&E News [64], 08/04/2026
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Trump DOJ Bids To Block Public From Suing To Enforce Environmental Laws [65]

"Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens to enforce them through the courts when the government does not act to address the problem."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Conversation [66], 08/04/2026
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Trump OSHA Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections [67]

"Republicans in Washington are taking steps to roll back federal workplace heat protections as summer temperatures surge."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: New York Times [68], 08/04/2026
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Senate Panel Releases Stopgap Bill With Disaster, Environment Funds [69]

"The stopgap includes extenders and authorizations for a number of environmental and infrastructure programs but leaves out special funding the White House had requested for national parks operations, wildfire management and disaster recovery in North Carolina."

Disasters [30]
Economy & Business [12]
Forests [70]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [71], 08/04/2026
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Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement [72]

"Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Planning & Growth [73]
Pollution [25]
Technology [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Politico [74], 08/04/2026
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