EJToday: Top Headlines

"ICE Changes Environmental Review Plan for Detention Centers" [9]

"US Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be shifting its strategy as it faces environmental review headwinds in its campaign to buy and convert warehouses into detention centers across the country. The Department of Homeland Security is now conducting National Environmental Policy Act reviews for two proposed facilities in New Jersey and Maryland, marking a policy shift after the agency initially exempted the projects from the months-long study process."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Military [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [19], 05/22/2026
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"$6 Gas And Refinery Fears Collide With California’s Climate Ambitions" [20]

"California is considering giving oil refineries and other major polluters billions in free pollution permits under a major overhaul of its carbon market. The fight is exposing a deeper question inside Gov. Gavin Newsom's climate agenda: Can California lower emissions without driving up gas prices?"

Air [21]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [26]
Technology [27]
Transportation [28]
Public [17]
California [29]
Source: CalMatters [30], 05/22/2026
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Pesticide Spraying Near Calif. School Concerns Parents. Why It’s Legal. [31]

"Although California laws prevent schools and nearby farmers from applying pesticides when students are present, cities are largely an exception. On May 1, Patterson city staff sprayed pesticides at Floragold Park next to Apricot Valley Elementary school while kids were outside."

Agriculture [32]
Chemicals [33]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [34]
Government [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [26]
Technology [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [29]
Source: Modesto Bee [36], 05/22/2026
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Utah’s Desert Could Fry If America’s Biggest Data Center Gets Built [37]

"Plans for a celebrity-backed “hyperscale” data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state’s current electricity use, have generated an intense public and political backlash in a state where the motto is “industry” and a Republican supermajority tends to be deferential to development."

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Studies [13]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
Technology [27]
Water & Oceans [40]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [42]
Source: Grist [43], 05/22/2026
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"The Subtle Yet Insidious Ways Climate Change Affects Mental Health" [44]

"The stress of climate change is taking a toll on mental health across the world – and not just among those who have survived disasters."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Environmental Studies [13]
Health [45]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [46]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [47], 05/22/2026
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‘Practical Stewardship’: House GOPers Release Interior-EPA Spending Bill [48]

"The fiscal 2027 legislation’s cuts are smaller than the White House proposed. The bill also blesses the Wildland Fire Service."

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [26]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [49], 05/21/2026
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"‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak" [50]

"As an Ebola outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied by the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid and global health organizations." "One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts."

Disasters [51]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [34]
Government [35]
Health [45]
Infrastructure [25]
People & Population [16]
Technology [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [46]
Africa [52]
Source: WIRED [53], 05/21/2026
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Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak [54]

"The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public health crisis. But the driver of it is a rodent that weighs about an ounce, and climate shifts this year that have helped increase the odds of transmission."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [45]
People & Population [16]
Science [55]
Technology [27]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
South America [56]
Source: WIRED [57], 05/21/2026
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Scientists Accuse Livestock Industry of Downplaying its Climate Emissions [58]

"A group of the world’s leading climate scientists are warning governments and the livestock industry against adopting an “accounting trick” that will imperil the all-out global effort required to control heat-trapping emissions."

Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [26]
Science [55]
Public [17]
International [46]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 05/21/2026
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Hit By Weather And Costs, Kansas Wheat Crop Could Be Worst Since 1972 [60]

"Record-setting drought and hotter-than-average temperatures mixed with sharp drops have impacted much of the U.S. early this year, including the Plains region. Drought conditions have worsened the spread of the wheat streak mosaic virus and barley yellow dwarf virus, which impact the potential of the crop. Combined with climbing input costs related to fertilizer, diesel fuel and tariffs, longtime wheat farmers say they are feeling a lot of pain."

Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [61], 05/21/2026
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US Researchers Face New Limits On Publishing With Foreign Collaborators [62]

"Grants managers at two of the U.S. government’s largest funders of scientific research have recently placed unprecedented limitations on the ability of U.S. scientists to publish with co-authors from other countries, researchers say."

Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Studies [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [46]
Source: Science [63], 05/21/2026
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"In Coal Country, Black Lung Surges as Federal Protections Stall" [64]

"While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [34]
Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [26]
Technology [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: YaleE360 [65], 05/21/2026
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"Europe’s Green-Energy Future Has a Problem: Reindeer" [66]

"In northern Norway, Sami people fear a copper mine will disrupt their traditional lifestyles."

"Each summer, Nils Mikkelsen Utsi guides his reindeer to highland pastures overlooking a fjord, known to locals as Repparfjord, in northern Norway. There, under the Arctic midnight sun, female reindeer give birth and Mr. Utsi marks the ears of the calves. His ancestors have done this for generations.

“This is my reindeer district,” he said. “This is my life.”
Agriculture [32]
Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [16]
Technology [27]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
International [46]
Antarctica & Arctic [67]
Asia [68]
Europe [69]
Source: New York Times [70], 05/21/2026
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Trump Officials, Billionaires And The Quiet Reshaping Of America's Public Lands [71]

"A controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump."

Agriculture [32]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [41]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Floodlight [72], 05/21/2026
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"Solar To Overtake Coal On Texas Grid For The First Time Ever This Year" [73]

"For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are adding more solar there than anywhere else in the country."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [26]
Technology [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [74]
Source: Canary Media [75], 05/21/2026
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