EJToday: Top Headlines

WH Aide Helped Oil Firm Boost Its Projects. Now She’ll Lead Its DC Office. [9]

"Brittany Kelm’s departure from the White House to lead the Washington office of a Houston oil company has raised questions about the close proximity between a government official and the interests of a private corporation."

Climate Change [10]
Conflict/Corruption [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 08/25/2026
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Trump Shuns EVs And Wind Power, But He’s Pouring Billions Into Batteries [18]

"President Trump has been scornful of electric cars for years. But his administration is now pouring billions of dollars into the battery technology that powers them."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [19]
Transportation [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: New York Times [21], 08/25/2026
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Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests [22]

"On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 1,700 acres into brown, bare shrubland. That forest is gone for good, scientists say."

Climate Change [10]
Forests [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Europe [26]
Source: New York Times [27], 08/25/2026
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Personal Care Products Are Awash In Unlabeled Toxic Chemicals: Study [28]

"Common personal care products widely contain unlabeled toxic chemicals, results from a new peer-reviewed study suggest. The testing of more than 110 items ranging from shampoo to baby lotions found evidence of unlabeled toxic chemicals in about 85%."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Pollution [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [33], 08/25/2026
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Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Iowa Residents [34]

"Monona County officials and residents fear a repeat of the communication gaps and loopholes that left them caught off guard by a plan to import treated slaughterhouse manure."

Agriculture [35]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [32]
Waste [37]
Public [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 08/25/2026
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BLM May Stop Noting Drilling Under Private Land. Wyoming Ranchers Alarmed. [40]

"Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Source: WyoFile [42], 08/25/2026
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Wisc. City Perfected Clean Water For Beer — Now It’s Fighting Nitrates [43]

"CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisc. — Ever since Jacob Leinenkugel discovered spring waters here that were pure enough to brew his famous beer, this small Wisconsin city’s devotion to clean water has been paramount. That’s why in 1997, when Chippewa Falls utility managers detected potentially dangerous concentrations of nitrates in a well supplying city water, officials acted."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [44]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: The New Lede [46], 08/25/2026
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"Mapping America’s Largest ‘Dead Zone’" [47]

"In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast."

Science [48]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: New York Times [50], 08/25/2026
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World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats [51]

"Heat and drought have diminished harvests in some of the biggest wheat-producing countries, including the United States, which is expected to have its worst wheat harvest in a half-century, spiking prices. Poor countries that agreed to buy American wheat under the threat of Trump tariffs could be stuck paying abnormally high prices."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [30]
Disasters [52]
Economy & Business [53]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Food [44]
Military [54]
People & Population [55]
Transportation [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [56]
Source: New York Times [57], 08/24/2026
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Interior Paid $156 Million For Employees Not To Work [58]

"The Department of the Interior spent more than $150 million on administrative leave for employees working in the secretary’s office last year."

Biodiversity [59]
Economy & Business [53]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [55]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [61]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [62], 08/24/2026
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NIH Plan To Keep Peer-Review Scores For Grants Secret Draws Concern [63]

"The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to change a key step in the review process determining which research it funds, raising concerns about transparency and political interference."

Chemicals [29]
Conflict/Corruption [11]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [64]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [65]
Government [60]
Health [66]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [48]
Technology [19]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Science [67], 08/24/2026
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La. Oil Disaster Leaves Black Parents Asking How to Keep Their Kids Safe [68]

"As the Louisiana town recovers, residents wrestle with the increasingly difficult task of shielding children from a polluted future."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [64]
Fish & Fisheries [69]
Food [44]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [55]
Pollution [32]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: Capital B [70], 08/24/2026
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Report: Big Food Firms Often Sue To Stop Or Slow Public Health Policies [71]

"The newsroom Lighthouse Reports, along with several partners around the globe, found food compa�nies have sued more than 200 times in the past 15 years as governments have tried to rein in unhealthy ingredients in people’s diets."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [29]
Conflict/Corruption [11]
Consumer [30]
Economy & Business [53]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [55]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Investgate Midwest [72], 08/24/2026
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Federal Government Thins The Herds Of Wild Horses In Colorado [73]

"A helicopter swooped through the bright blue sky, as a pilot scanned the high desert below for wild horses running through the dusty sagebrush, about an hour's drive west of Meeker, Colorado. A small group of reporters and horse lovers watched from the cover of wizened trees, about a mile from a pen that would trap the horses."

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [59]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [20]
Wildlife [61]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NPR [74], 08/24/2026
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Despite Trump’s Attacks, Unions Fight For Good US Clean Energy Jobs [75]

"Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when he got the opportunity to work in the middle of the ocean." "Two years ago, McElroen began being trained by his union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3, for a job in the emerging offshore wind industry."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [53]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [55]
Technology [19]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [76], 08/24/2026
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