EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump’s Tariffs Push ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Into Limbo" [9]

"U.S. oil producers are stuck between President Donald Trump’s policies, benefiting from relaxed environmental regulations but facing weakening oil prices as tariffs weigh on the global economy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 04/21/2025
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Energy Efficiency Program Killed; Advocates Say Louisianans Will Pay Price [18]

"In a move energy advocates say will increase electric bills for Louisiana residents and allow the state’s utilities to keep earning money for electricity they don’t provide, Louisiana’s energy regulators voted 3-2 Wednesday to scrap plans for an independently operated energy efficiency program more than 14 years in the making."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [22]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Floodlight [24], 04/21/2025
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"About A Sixth Of Global Cropland Likely Polluted With Toxic Metals: Study" [25]

"Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many as 1.4 billion people reside in areas with soil dangerously polluted with compounds like arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel and lead, according to the study, published in Science."

Agriculture [26]
Chemicals [27]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Health [19]
Food [29]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
International [32]
Source: The Hill [33], 04/21/2025
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Everglades Restoration Would Protect Florida Keys Amid Drought [34]

"The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts. Florida Bay, a body of water located between the southern end of mainland Florida and the Florida Keys, makes up about a third of Everglades National Park."

Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [36]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: AP [40], 04/21/2025
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"Listening for Whale Sounds 1,000 Feet Deep in the Antarctic Ocean" [41]

"Heidi Ahonen is a bioacoustician recording whale calls, whistles and songs to understand if the marine mammals are crossing paths with krill fishing vessels in one of the most extreme environments on Earth."

Biodiversity [35]
Environmental Studies [36]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [15]
International [32]
Antarctica & Arctic [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 04/21/2025
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"Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing" [44]

"President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales."

Biodiversity [35]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [32]
Source: NYTimes [45], 04/18/2025
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Top NIH Researcher On Ultraprocessed Foods Departs, Citing RFK Jr. Censorship [46]

"When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, one group of health researchers was cautiously optimistic that their cause would finally have a champion at the highest levels of government: those focused on food and nutrition."

Agriculture [26]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [29]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [48]
Technology [49]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CNN [50], 04/18/2025
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"Court Blocks Enforcement of New Silica Dust Protections for Coal Miners" [51]

"A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new rule to limit silica dust exposure for coal and other miners. The rule, from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), was imposed last year in response to an epidemic of severe black lung disease among coal miners."

Air [52]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Public Health Watch/WVPB [53], 04/18/2025
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"Burgum Halts Work On NY Offshore Wind Project" [54]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum halted construction of a major offshore wind farm off New York on Wednesday, in a marked escalation of President Donald Trump’s fight against offshore wind."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [55]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [49]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Source: E&E News [57], 04/18/2025
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Syngenta To Settle 1000s Of Lawsuits Claiming Paraquat Causes Parkinson’s [58]

"Besieged by thousands of lawsuits alleging that its paraquat weedkiller causes Parkinson’s disease, Syngenta has entered into an agreement aimed at settling large swaths of those claims."

Agriculture [26]
Chemicals [27]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [59], 04/18/2025
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"How Is Climate Change Harming Health? Studying That Just Got Harder." [60]

"The N.I.H. has indicated that it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change. Scientists said the decision will curtail the search for answers."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Studies [36]
Science [48]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [61], 04/18/2025
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"EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer" [62]

"“Off spec” liquid from Winston Weaver fertilizer fire that was applied on a nearby farm field contained toxic PFAS."

Agriculture [26]
Chemicals [27]
Disasters [63]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 04/18/2025
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"Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Disbursement Of Contested Climate Funds" [65]

"An appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order that enabled the release of contested climate funds."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [55]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [66], 04/18/2025
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"CDC Scientist: Texas Measles Outbreak Response Hurt By Funding Cuts" [67]

"A senior scientist overseeing the measles response by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a recent pullback of pandemic funding from states has hurt Texas’s response to its growing outbreak, now linked to 90 percent of cases in the United States."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [68], 04/18/2025
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Endangered Sea Turtle Populations Show Signs Of Recovery In Much Of World [69]

"Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday."

Biodiversity [35]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Studies [36]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [32]
Source: AP [70], 04/18/2025
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