EJToday: Top Headlines

"Utilities To Spend Billions To Power AI. Are They Jumping The Gun?" [9]

"A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Pollution [13]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: Floodlight [18], 02/06/2025
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"Trump’s FEMA Chief Assailed The Agency With Untruths" [19]

"Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina."

Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [24], 02/06/2025
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"Here’s Every Biden-Era Energy Loan — Now All Under Threat From Trump" [25]

"The DOE Loan Programs Office gave out $107 billion to 53 projects, from EV factories to a nuclear-plant restart. But the fate of the loans is unclear under Trump."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [28], 02/06/2025
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"Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu" [29]

"Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday."

Agriculture [30]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Natural Resources [31]
Science [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [33], 02/06/2025
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"Big Oil and Gas Goes Long With Super Bowl Greenwashing" [34]

"As New Orleans readies to host Super Bowl LIX this Sunday, a volunteer ambassador program has been working to help welcome the hundreds of thousands of football fans streaming into the Big Easy. Who is sponsoring that program? Chevron, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers and a top climate polluter."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Journalism & Media [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Sierra [35], 02/06/2025
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"Trump Picks Scientist Involved In ‘Sharpiegate’ Scandal To Lead NOAA" [36]

"President Donald Trump has named Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who was found to have violated scientific integrity policies during the “Sharpiegate” scandal of the first Trump administration, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Natural Resources [31]
Science [32]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [40], 02/05/2025
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"Burgum’s First Order Of Business: Drilling, Public Lands And The ESA" [41]

"The Interior secretary signed orders to increase energy production, review Biden public lands efforts and slash regulations."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [42]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [43], 02/05/2025
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"E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More" [44]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is demoting career employees who oversee scientific research, the enforcement of pollution laws, hazardous waste cleanup and the agency’s human resources department and will replace them with political appointees, according to two people familiar with the approach."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [45], 02/05/2025
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"Neo-Nazi Group Leader Convicted Of Planning To Attack Maryland Power Grid" [46]

"Brandon Russell, the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group, was convicted Monday of conspiring to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Military [47]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: The Hill [49], 02/05/2025
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"Mountain Valley Pipeline Files Application To Build Southgate Extension" [50]

"Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC filed with regulators Monday official requests to build its revised Southgate extension project from Southwest Virginia into North Carolina." "The company’s proposal to build more than 30 miles of natural gas pipeline has worried environmental advocates, who believe it could harm nearby residents."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 02/05/2025
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Dramatic Drop As Monarch Butterfly Count Nears Record 30-Year Low [53]

"The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change take their toll on the beloved pollinator."

Agriculture [30]
Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Studies [54]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [42]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [55], 02/05/2025
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"Trump Wants More Drilling, But The Oil Market Is Already Saturated" [56]

Trump has repeatedly said eliminating barriers to drilling will unlock vast untapped reserves of “liquid gold” and ignite a new era of national prosperity. But most of the drilling leases already granted to companies in the oil-rich Gulf are idle and unused, and they’ll stay that way until the United States’ record-breaking production rates wane and the high costs of drilling offshore drop precipitously.

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Verite News [57], 02/05/2025
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"FDA Must Set Limits On PFAS In Food, Lawsuit Says" [58]

"US regulators are failing to address concerns about toxic PFAS chemicals in foods despite having the scientific tools to do so, according to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group in Tucson, Arizona."

Activism [59]
Agriculture [30]
Chemicals [60]
Consumer [61]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [62]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [63], 02/05/2025
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"Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump" [64]

"One day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a digital mapping tool used by federal and state agencies to identify environmentally disadvantaged communities was taken offline. Within 48 hours, a coalition of data scientists known as the Public Environmental Data Project had resurrected a functional but unofficial copy of the tool on an independent domain."

Environmental Justice [65]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [66]
Technology [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 02/05/2025
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"How Tearing Down Small Dams Is Helping Restore Northeast Rivers" [68]

"More than 30,000 small dams currently block river tributaries from Maine to Maryland. New initiatives to remove them are aimed at restoring natural flows, improving habitat for aquatic life, and reopening thousands of river miles to migratory fish, from shad to American eels."

Biodiversity [37]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [69]
Source: YaleE360 [70], 02/05/2025
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