EJToday: Top Headlines

"Pope Leo Meets Families Of Youth Lost To Illegal Toxic Waste Dumping" [9]

"Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted one by one families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples, tied to a multi-billion criminal racket run by the mafia."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [17]
Waste [18]
Public [19]
Europe [20]
Source: AP [21], 05/26/2026
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"Court Overturns Landmark Fluoride Ruling, Sides With EPA" [22]

"A federal appeals court said a judge erred in ruling that adding fluoride to water poses an “unreasonable risk” to children’s brain development."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Science [24]
Technology [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: E&E News [28], 05/26/2026
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Bayer’s Proposed Roundup Settlement Violates Constitution, Filing Claims [29]

"Bayer’s proposed $7.25 billion class action settlement is a “sweetheart deal” that violates the US Constitution by running “roughshod over basic due process rights, according to a court filing that seeks to undo the nationwide program."

Agriculture [30]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [31]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [24]
Technology [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The New Lede [32], 05/26/2026
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UN Affirms Responsibility To Mitigate Climate Change; US Votes Against [33]

"The United Nations voted this week to affirm that countries have a responsibility to protect people from climate change, while the U.S. was one of a handful of member states to vote against the resolution."

Climate Change [34]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [37]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [38]
Source: The Hill [39], 05/26/2026
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RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Group That Sets Guidelines For Health Screenings [40]

"The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans."

Activism [41]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [42]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Science [24]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [43], 05/26/2026
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Companies Join Deep-Sea Mining Rush After Trump Order Fast-Tracks Permits [44]

"In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process."

Biodiversity [45]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [46]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Government [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [48]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [38]
Source: AP [49], 05/26/2026
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Parking Lots Get Hot And Pollute Storm Runoff. Groups Test Other Options. [50]

"At the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission headquarters in Virginia, staff knew their crumbling asphalt parking lot was in desperate need of repair. But instead of replacing the lot with more dark blacktop, the group chose an alternative."

Climate Change [34]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [51]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Transportation [52]
Waste [18]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [53], 05/26/2026
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Malnourished Gray Whales of Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’ [54]

"Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists."

Biodiversity [45]
Climate Change [34]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Health [11]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [38]
Canada [56]
Antarctica & Arctic [57]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 05/26/2026
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As Wildfire Grows Near Ex-Nuclear Site, Calif. County Monitors Radiation [59]

"The fire department said “hazardous materials and radiological monitoring teams” continue to track the health of the air in the Ventura County area."

Climate Change [34]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Health [11]
Forests [60]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [61]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
California [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 05/26/2026
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"Another First For Renewables: Wind And Solar Outgenerate Gas In April" [64]

"It’s a milestone moment that shows just how much clean energy has matured in a short amount of time — and a lot more growth is on the way."

Climate Change [34]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [51]
Technology [25]
Public [19]
International [38]
Source: Canary Media [65], 05/26/2026
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Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast: Milder Than Normal Thanks To El Nino [66]

"A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won’t make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict."

Climate Change [34]
Disasters [55]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [67]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [68]
Source: AP [69], 05/22/2026
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Trump Eases HFC rule, Claiming It Will Lower Surging Grocery Costs [70]

"The Trump administration on Thursday loosened federal rules that require grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, a step that President Donald Trump said would help lower grocery costs."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [34]
Consumer [23]
Food [31]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Technology [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [71], 05/22/2026
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Firms Rush Toward Deep-Sea Mining As Trump Regulators Fast-Track Permits [72]

"In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process."

Biodiversity [45]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [34]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [48]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [38]
Source: AP [49], 05/22/2026
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RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Group That Guides Preventive Health Screenings [73]

"The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans. In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that he was terminating their appointments immediately, before the end of their multiyear terms."

Activism [41]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [42]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Technology [25]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [43], 05/22/2026
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Pork Lobbyist Leads “Nonpartisan” Group Opposing State Animal Welfare Laws [74]

"In March, a letter to the editor appeared in the Los Angeles Times imploring Congress to take action against a California law that requires farmers provide hogs, calves and chickens with enough room to turn around, lie down and stretch. A chief problem with the law, according to the letter, is that it applies to animals raised in other states if products from those animals are sold into California."

Agriculture [30]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [31]
Government [37]
Journalism & Media [75]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [27]
California [62]
Source: The New Lede [76], 05/22/2026
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