EJToday: Top Headlines

Amazon Indigenous Urge UN To Curb Organized Crime, Not Militarize Lands [9]

"Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter Monday to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. However, they urged governments to avoid heavily militarized responses in Indigenous territories."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Forests [14]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Waste [17]
Public [18]
South America [19]
Source: AP [20], 05/18/2026
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"The Trans Canada Trail Connected The Country Coast To Coast. Not Anymore" [21]

"Climate change is putting the future of B.C.’s trail system at risk, as the province weighs the cost of repair after disasters. Communities like Princeton are facing the fallout"

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Transportation [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
Canada [27]
Source: The Narwhal [28], 05/18/2026
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Tesla Semis Are About To Hit The Road: That’s Good News For California [29]

"Thanks to state incentives, the long-range, lower-cost electric trucks are affordable. Widespread adoption could help California meet clean-trucking targets."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Technology [33]
Transportation [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
California [35]
International [36]
Source: Canary Media [37], 05/18/2026
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Appeals Court Weighs Legality Of Orders Keeping Michigan Coal Plant Open [38]

"Michigan’s Department of Attorney General and several environmental justice groups presented oral arguments on Friday before a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, arguing that emergency orders that kept the J.H. Campbell coal plant from retiring were illegal applications of federal law."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [39]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: Michigan Advance [41], 05/18/2026
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Solar-Powered Charging Station In Cuba Brings Life To A Darkened Island [42]

"Yudelaimys Barrero Muñoz used to spend up to three hours on the side of a highway under the blazing sun waving money at drivers as she attempted to hitch a ride from Cienfuegos, Cuba to Santa Clara, where she buys supplies to resell and support her husband and two children."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [43]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Infrastructure [24]
Technology [33]
Transportation [25]
Public [18]
Central America & the Caribbean [44]
Source: AP [45], 05/18/2026
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"China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead" [46]

"While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those sectors."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [39]
Infrastructure [24]
Technology [33]
Transportation [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
International [36]
Asia [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 05/15/2026
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Trump EPA Aims To Roll Back Limits On Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants [49]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to roll back limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers through polluted groundwater, saying a three-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking."

Air [50]
Chemicals [51]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: AP [52], 05/15/2026
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"US EPA Proposes Delaying Enforcement Of Biden Vehicle Pollution Rule" [53]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a delay in enforcement of a regulation requiring ‌significant cuts in air pollution from vehicles."

Air [50]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [43]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [54]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Pollution [32]
Transportation [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Reuters [55], 05/15/2026
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Watchdog Groups Urge Senate To Investigate Alito Over Oil Stock Conflicts [56]

"The supreme court justice Samuel Alito, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit big oil, government watchdog groups say. In a Thursday letter, a coalition of watchdog organizations called on the Senate judiciary committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies."

Activism [57]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Guardian [58], 05/15/2026
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Budd-Falen’s Ex-Clients Wanted Bison Off Public Land. Burgum Intervened. [59]

"In administrative cases before DOI, Interior Secretary Burgum intervened to make policy changes that involved or benefited the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [39]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [26]
Wildlife [61]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Public Domain [62], 05/15/2026
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"Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says" [63]

"Florida plans to shut down the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz as soon as early June, according to a news report."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [54]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [39]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Military [64]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Wildlife [61]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 05/15/2026
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"New York Plastics Law Advances Amid Debate Over ‘Chemical Recycling’" [67]

"Legislation that would reduce plastic waste in New York is advancing in the state Legislature amid a contentious debate over chemical recycling." "Environmentalists and some state lawmakers say the process does more harm than good. Plastics producers are pushing back."

Chemicals [51]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [54]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [32]
Technology [33]
Waste [17]
Public [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 05/15/2026
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"The Indiana Community Caught Between Coal And The Data Center Boom" [70]

"In rural Jasper County, two defining energy trends of the Trump era — reviving coal and building gas-powered data centers — are converging."

Air [50]
Chemicals [51]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [54]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [31]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [32]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: Canary Media [71], 05/15/2026
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Extreme Weather Predicted From Potentially Record-Breaking El Nino [72]

"Seasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Fish & Fisheries [73]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
International [36]
Source: AP [74], 05/15/2026
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Extreme Heat Could Threaten The World Cup, Endangering Players And Fans [75]

"World Cup matches at open-air venues in North America this summer could be threatened by dangerous heat and humidity, a climate research group says."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [54]
Infrastructure [24]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [34]
International [36]
Canada [27]
Mexico [76]
Source: Washington Post [77], 05/15/2026
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