EJToday: Top Headlines

"RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Targets Food, Drug, Tech Industries: Key Takeaways" [9]

"The Trump administration issued its long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report Thursday, hammering various industries while deviating from mainstream science on key issues including farming practices, vaccinations and psychiatric medications."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [20], 05/23/2025
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"Congress Moves To Loosen Toxic Air Pollution Rules" [21]

"Congress has voted to undo a Clean Air Act regulation that strictly controls the amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by many industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills."

Air [22]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NPR [24], 05/23/2025
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"Trump Spared A New York Wind Project. What Did He Get In Return?" [25]

"President Donald Trump’s sudden decision Monday to reverse course and lift a stop work order on Empire Wind 1 prompted widespread speculation in Albany and Washington that the president had extracted a commitment from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to allow a new gas pipeline to move forward."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [31]
Source: E&E News [32], 05/23/2025
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"Global Forest Loss Hit a Record Last Year as Fires Raged" [33]

"The planet lost a record amount of forests last year, driven by fires that raged around the world, data shows."

Climate Change [26]
Forests [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
International [36]
Source: NYTimes [37], 05/23/2025
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Texas Cattle Industry Braces For An Imminent Screwworm Infestation [38]

"Multiple efforts are underway to stop a parasitic fly from swarming Texas and the rest of the U.S. and wreaking havoc on the nation’s multi-billion-dollar cattle industry."

Agriculture [39]
Biodiversity [40]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Mexico [42]
Source: Texas Tribune [43], 05/23/2025
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"Memorial Day Weekend Gas Prices Expected To Be Cheapest In Years" [44]

"The gas prices for Memorial Day weekend are expected to be the cheapest, when adjusted for inflation, in recent years."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [45]
People & Population [46]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [47], 05/22/2025
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"3,500% Tariffs Cloud Outlook For US Solar Industry" [48]

"The International Trade Commission backed solar tariffs as high as 3,521 percent in a vote Tuesday, shaking up a renewable industry facing multiple headwinds from potential congressional rollbacks of tax credits and cuts in federal spending."

Climate Change [26]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Source: E&E News [50], 05/22/2025
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"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms" [51]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."

Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [45]
Food [52]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Civil Eats [53], 05/22/2025
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"China To Donate $500 Million To WHO, Stepping Into Gap Left By U.S." [54]

"China has pledged to give $500 million to the World Health Organization as the country is set to replace the United States as the group’s top state donor, expanding Beijing’s global influence in the wake of Washington’s retreat from international cooperation."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [55]
Health [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Asia [56]
Source: Washington Post [57], 05/22/2025
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"Trump’s Interior Chief Calls Many Employees ‘Redundant Overhead’" [58]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday vigorously defended firing large numbers of Interior Department staff because he said too many work in offices and too few in national parks."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [55]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [46]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [59], 05/22/2025
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"Sea Level Rise Will Cause ‘Catastrophic Inland Migration’, Scientists Warn" [60]

"Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds"

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [61]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Studies [45]
Infrastructure [29]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [46]
Science [17]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [62], 05/22/2025
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Plea Deal Shutters Watts Recycling Plant Accused Of Spewing Toxics At School [63]

"A South L.A. recycling plant that has been accused of spewing toxic waste and metal projectiles onto the grounds of Jordan High School will be permanently shut down, according to a plea deal agreed to by the plant’s owners in court Tuesday."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [16]
Waste [64]
Public [18]
California [65]
Source: LA Times [66], 05/22/2025
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"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region" [67]

"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [26]
Disasters [61]
Environmental Health [12]
Military [68]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [46]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [18]
Middle East [69]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [70], 05/22/2025
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Chemical Exposure From Ultra-Processed Foods May Worsen Health Issues [71]

"Toxic synthetic chemicals that migrate into ultra-processed foods from packaging, processing equipment and other sources may explain why these foods are so bad for our health, according to a new review article."

Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [52]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [36]
Source: The New Lede [72], 05/22/2025
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James Hansen Decries Trump Plan To Shut Nasa Lab Above Seinfeld Diner [73]

"Perched above the New York City diner made famous by the TV show Seinfeld, Tom’s Restaurant, a small research laboratory became, improbably, crucial to humanity’s understanding of our changing climate and of the universe itself."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [45]
Government [55]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [74], 05/22/2025
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