EJToday: Top Headlines

"Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide" [9]

"The Department of Defense has quietly delayed its cleanup of harmful “forever chemicals” at nearly 140 military installations across the country, according to a list of sites analyzed by The New York Times." "The new timeline could slow cleanup in some communities by nearly a decade. The chemicals, widely used in the military, are linked to cancers and other health risks."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 09/23/2025
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"Trump Ends Annual Report On U.S. Hunger Amid Rising Food Insecurity" [22]

"The Trump administration is ending a decades-long effort to track food security at a time when many Americans are struggling to get proper nutrition or enough to eat."

Agriculture [23]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [27], 09/23/2025
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Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts [28]

"A Chinese mining company is denying that its toxic waste spill, one of this year’s worst environmental disasters, had a “significant impact” on the environment or local communities."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [17]
Public [19]
Africa [31]
Asia [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 09/23/2025
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Pennsylvania’s Gov. Threatens to Pull State Out of the Region’s Power Grid [34]

"Ninety-eight years ago, the nation’s largest power grid operator was founded here by utilities serving Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro threatened to pull his state out of the coalition."

Climate Change [35]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [40]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 09/23/2025
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"The People Behind America’s Disaster Recovery" [43]

"When a disaster strikes, be it a hurricane, flood, wildfire, or other type of extreme weather, an army of workers assemble. They arrive in waves to ravaged areas ready to respond." "From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe."

Climate Change [35]
Disasters [29]
Government [44]
Infrastructure [38]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Grist [45], 09/23/2025
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"EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say" [46]

"Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [17]
Science [47]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [48], 09/22/2025
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"National Parks Remove Signs About Climate, Slavery And Japanese Detention" [49]

"The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [50]
Government [44]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [51], 09/22/2025
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Pentagon Requires Journos To Pledge Only To Report Released Information [52]

"The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including unclassified information. Journalists who don’t abide by the policy risk losing credentials that provide access to the Pentagon, under a 17-page memo distributed Friday that steps up media restrictions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [53], 09/22/2025
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"Dems Float Dueling CR With Energy, Environment Language" [54]

"Republicans rejected Democrats’ counteroffer on government funding before even seeing it."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [55], 09/22/2025
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"UN Treaty To Protect Oceans To Take Effect After Clinching Ratification [56]

"A UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the high seas was struck Friday after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law."

Biodiversity [57]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
International [59]
Source: France 24 [60], 09/22/2025
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"A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem" [61]

"When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [47]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [62], 09/22/2025
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Enviros Worry Trump Re-Do Will Imperil Wyoming’s Climate-Stressed Red Desert [63]

"A pending ‘amendment’ to the BLM’s Rock Springs management plan is likely to open previously undeveloped areas to oil and gas drilling, observers say."

Biodiversity [57]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Wildlife [64]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [65]
Source: WyoFile [66], 09/22/2025
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"Trump Nears Deal for Road Through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge" [67]

"The Trump administration is poised to approve a deal that would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska, according to internal Interior Department documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Biodiversity [57]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [68]
Health [69]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [16]
Transportation [70]
Wildlife [64]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Alaska and Hawaii [71]
Source: NYTimes [72], 09/22/2025
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Colorado To Join Suit Alleging Oil Trains' Endangered Species Violations [73]

"Colorado, along with 15 other states, is poised to sue the federal government for ignoring endangered species regulations in a wide range of infrastructure projects on public lands. One of those projects, a controversial proposal to expand an oil shipping facility in Utah, would significantly increase hazardous rail shipments through Colorado."

Biodiversity [57]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [50]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Wildlife [64]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [65]
Source: States Newsroom [74], 09/22/2025
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‘Female Fairywrens Sing To Their Eggs’ And Eight More Facts About Birdsong [75]

"From carolling magpies to the lullaby of fairywrens, the nature and purpose of birdsong is more varied than you might think"

Biodiversity [57]
Environmental Studies [50]
Natural Resources [30]
Wildlife [64]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [59]
Source: Guardian [76], 09/22/2025
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