EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Delays Reporting Requirements For Health-Harming Chemicals" [9]

"Federal regulators are giving chemical manufacturers and petroleum refiners more time to provide data on a group of chemicals that have been linked to human health harms as officials consider tighter regulations."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [20], 06/01/2026
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SEC Repealing Rule That Requires Firms To Report Emissions And Climate Risk [21]

"In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [25]
Source: AP [26], 06/01/2026
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"Trump Moves To Open Federal Lands To More Off-Road Vehicle Use" [27]

"Executive orders limiting off-road vehicle access to federal lands signed decades ago by Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter have been revoked by President Donald Trump, drawing concerns over possible impacts to Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands and perhaps some in the National Park System."

Biodiversity [28]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Wildlife [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: National Parks Traveler [31], 06/01/2026
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EPA Rollbacks Could Raise AC, Refrigeration Costs, Not Promised Savings [32]

"President Donald Trump said new regulatory rollbacks on chemical refrigerants will reduce the prices consumers pay for groceries and will not impact the environment. However, U.S. chemical, refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers said the changes will raise prices and his administration’s own projections show that greenhouse gas pollution will increase."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 06/01/2026
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"Wildfires In 2025 Caused Global Havoc. Study Calls For Decisive Action" [35]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

First, the good news: A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 shows that the year had the second-lowest area burned since 2002.

But at the same time, the study also revealed that the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly fire events in recent history, including the catastrophic Los Angeles fires of January 2025 that killed dozens and burned over 12,000 homes.
Air [36]
Climate Change [22]
Disasters [37]
Forests [38]
Government [39]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Canada [40]
Mexico [41]
Source: USA TODAY [42], 06/01/2026
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"Data Center Boom Raises Environmental Justice Concerns In Maryland" [43]

"As Staci Hartwell sees it, her community has much more to lose than to gain from the development of a massive data center."

Activism [44]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Bay Journal [48], 06/01/2026
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"Voters In 9 States Will Pick The People Overseeing Their Power Bills" [49]

"Public utility commissions have a ton of influence over utility rate hikes and power plant construction, but only a handful of states let voters decide who’s on them."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Canary Media [50], 06/01/2026
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"Think It’s Hot Now? The Next Five Years Will Smash Records, UN Says" [51]

"In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
International [25]
Source: AP [52], 06/01/2026
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"The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims" [53]

"There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans." "The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [54]
Journalism & Media [55]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [25]
Source: WIRED [56], 06/01/2026
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"ESA Success Stories: Survival Of The Protected" [57]

"In 1782, when the United States adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol, anecdotal accounts stated that the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. By the mid-1900s, habitat destruction, illegal shooting, and DDT contamination had driven bald eagles near extinction."

Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [29]
Wildlife [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: National Parks Traveler [59], 06/01/2026
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11 Presumed Dead As Recovery Efforts Resume In Wash. Chemical Tank Rupture [60]

"Search crews are expected to navigate treacherous circumstances as they continue efforts to recover nine people, who are presumed dead, a day after a deadly chemical tank rupture at a paper plant in Washington state."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [61]
Source: CNN [62], 05/29/2026
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"Water Shortages Worsen Across Cuba As Oil Supplies Dwindle" [63]

"Nearly 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade, authorities said late Wednesday during a roundtable discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing blockade."

Consumer [11]
Disasters [37]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [15]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [64]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
Source: AP [66], 05/29/2026
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"EPA’s Power Plant Repeal Could Leave Some Rules In Place" [67]

"EPA’s efforts to undo Biden-era climate rules for power plants could get a major overhaul before they clear White House review, according to some insiders watching the process."

Air [36]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [68], 05/29/2026
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"Interior Rolls Out ‘National Map’ Of Public Lands, Waters" [69]

"The Interior Department unveiled Thursday the first iteration of a new public tool for mapping federal lands and waters, rolling out a unified “national map” with boundaries used by five agencies."

Consumer [11]
Environmental Studies [70]
Forests [38]
Government [39]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [71]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [72], 05/29/2026
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House Spending Plan Slaps Hefty Inspection Fees On Offshore Wind Projects [73]

"The Republican appropriations bill for the Interior Department proposes per-turbine fees for wind projects, potentially boosting those costs much higher than fees paid by oil and gas companies."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [64]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [74], 05/29/2026
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