EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA To Scrap Lifesaving Soot Pollution Limit" [9]

"The Trump administration has crossed a key threshold in its campaign to toss a stricter air pollution standard for soot, in a move that threatens to erase one of the Biden administration’s core public health accomplishments."

Air [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 11/26/2025
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La. Health Official Who Halted State Vaccine Campaign Tapped As CDC’s No. 2 [20]

"A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new No. 2 leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

Consumer [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [23], 11/26/2025
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"Interior Skips NEPA Analysis For Offshore Drilling Expansion" [24]

"The Interior Department will skip the standard environmental analysis for its five-year offshore drilling plan, a break from the agency’s decadeslong practice."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [28], 11/26/2025
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"Trump Exempts Coal Used In Steelmaking From Clean Air Act Rule" [29]

"President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years."

Air [10]
Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: The Hill [33], 11/26/2025
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Electricity Prices Jump After Trump Rejects Disaster Aid For Mich. Utilities [34]

"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."

Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: E&E News [39], 11/26/2025
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"Va. Communities Resist Sewage Sludge On Farm Land As PFAS Concerns Grow [40]

"As worry mounts about health risks from exposure to ‘forever chemicals,’ Virginia communities push for testing and limits for biosolids"

Agriculture [41]
Chemicals [30]
Consumer [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [42]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [43]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: Virginia Mercury [44], 11/26/2025
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FDA Yanks Proposal Requiring Talc-Containing Cosmetics To Test For Asbestos [45]

"The Trump administration is withdrawing a proposal to require cosmetic companies to test their talc-containing products for asbestos, according to a public notice Tuesday."

Chemicals [30]
Consumer [21]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [46], 11/26/2025
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"Mumbai Families Suffer As Datacentres Keep The City Hooked On Coal" [47]

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"

Air [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
Asia [48]
Source: Guardian [49], 11/26/2025
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"‘Climate Smart’ Beef? After A Lawsuit, Tyson Agrees To Drop The Label." [50]

"Advocates say a recent settlement is a win in the fight to hold industrial ag giants accountable."

Biodiversity [51]
Climate Change [25]
Consumer [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [42]
Journalism & Media [52]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [53], 11/26/2025
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Rolling Sand Dunes Creeping Up On Last Remaining Oases On Edge Of Sahara [54]

"In western Chad, villagers are desperately trying to hold back the sand as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on one of the hottest countries in the world"

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [25]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [12]
Natural Resources [55]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [17]
Africa [56]
Middle East [57]
Source: Guardian [58], 11/26/2025
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"With Turkey as Next COP Host, Climate Talks Again Go to Authoritarians" [59]

"United Nations climate officials announced Thursday that Turkey will host the 2026 Conference of Parties, COP31, making it the fourth time in five years that the climate talks are held in a country under authoritarian rule."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [60]
Journalism & Media [52]
Public [17]
International [61]
Europe [62]
Source: Newsweek [63], 11/25/2025
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"Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown" [64]

"Federal workers were guaranteed back pay once the government reopened. Some at the National Park Service are still waiting."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [60]
Natural Resources [55]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [65], 11/25/2025
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Tracking Down Orphaned, Possibly Leaking, Oil And Gas Wells In The Parks [66]

"An unknown number of abandoned oil and gas wells dot the National Park System, but the one at Cuyahoga Valley National Park revealed itself with a whistling plume of colorless, odorless, and potentially lethal, methane gas."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [55]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: National Parks Traveler [67], 11/25/2025
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PFAS And Other Contaminants Surged In French Broad River After Helene: Study [68]

"Fifteen days after Tropical Storm Helene sent debris, runoff and a cocktail of toxins — including raw sewage and pharmaceuticals — pouring into the French Broad River in the fall of 2024, Shea Tuberty set out to investigate the damage."

Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [25]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NC Health News [69], 11/25/2025
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"The Lives That Hurricane Melissa Upturned In Cuba" [70]

"The natural disaster has deepened the precarious situation in the eastern part of the island. Those who lost everything are unsure how to rebuild their lives amid the various crises affecting them"

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [17]
Central America & the Caribbean [71]
Source: EL PAÍS [72], 11/25/2025
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