EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Opens Protected Pacific Waters To Commercial Fishing" [9]

"The Trump administration struck down prohibitions on commercial fishing Thursday across more than 500,000 square miles of marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean, as environmental groups vowed to challenge the action in federal court." "The president has now signed orders to eliminate commercial fishing bans in all five national marine monuments."

Biodiversity [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [19]
International [20]
Source: E&E News [21], 06/15/2026
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Trump NPS Ordered To Restore History, Climate Info Removed From Parks [22]

"A federal judge Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to restore interpretative materials pertaining to history and climate change removed from national parks under President Donald Trump’s order.
Consumer [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [24]
Government [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: National Parks Traveler [28], 06/15/2026
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EPA Sends California Emissions Rules To Congress, Hoping For Reversal [29]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it was sending the Republican-controlled Congress landmark California vehicle emissions rules for potential ‌repeal, its latest effort to prevent tougher state tailpipe requirements."

Air [30]
Climate Change [31]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [34]
Transportation [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [36]
Source: Reuters [37], 06/15/2026
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"Another Industry-Led Campaign Targets California’s Animal Welfare Law" [38]

"Several newspapers across farming states have run strikingly similar opinion columns over the past month that take issue with a California law requiring farmers to provide hogs, calves and chickens with enough room to turn around, lie down and stretch."

Agriculture [39]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [40]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [36]
Source: The New Lede [41], 06/15/2026
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Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants: Judge [42]

"The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume administering it."

Activism [43]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [44]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 06/15/2026
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"Solar Beat Coal On The US Grid In May — A New Milestone" [46]

"The U.S. just hit a big milestone: It got more power from solar panels than from coal plants in May."

Climate Change [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Infrastructure [47]
Technology [48]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Canary Media [49], 06/15/2026
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‘Flamingo Revolution’ Opposes Kushner Resort On Protected Albanian Delta [50]

"In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators felled coastal pine trees, flattened sand dunes, and cut new roads through previously untouched habitat." "The incursion was the realization of a luxury resort development backed by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [27]
Wildlife [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Europe [52]
Source: Mongabay [53], 06/15/2026
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Trump Attacks Forest And Wildfire Research Just As West Is Poised To Burn [54]

"Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [56]
Government [25]
People & Population [27]
Science [57]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [58], 06/15/2026
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Rebuilding To Endure [59]

"In the days after Hurricane Helene devastated the southern Appalachians in late September 2024, Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Tracy Swartout went up in a helicopter to survey the damage. What she saw was deeply troubling. 'When Helene happened, we ended up with 58 landslides spread across 200 linear miles of the parkway,' Swartout says."

Activism [43]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [55]
Forests [56]
Government [25]
Infrastructure [47]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [60]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [61]
Source: National Parks Traveler [62], 06/15/2026
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Patagonia Is Suing Pattie Gonia, Drag Queen With Environmental Message [63]

"Days before the beginning of Pride Month in June, a glamorous drag queen with long, wavy red hair, a matching mustache and carabiner earrings stared into a camera and levied a strong accusation against a famous sustainable outdoors apparel brand: "This is a corporation trying to erase an activist."

Activism [43]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [26]
People & Population [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [64], 06/15/2026
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El Niño Is Here, And It’s Developing Earlier And Faster Than Many Do [65]

"El Niño has developed in the Pacific Ocean, a climate pattern that can reshape weather around the globe into 2027. The last El Niño was in 2023-24, and forecasters say this one is developing earlier than many typically do."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [55]
Economy & Business [11]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Food [40]
People & Population [27]
Science [57]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [20]
Source: AccuWeather [66], 06/12/2026
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"Oceans Are Warming, But Scientists Are Concerned About This Cold Blob" [67]

"If the blob persists for years, it could eventually cool the climate around Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe."

Climate Change [31]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Studies [24]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [20]
Europe [52]
Source: Washington Post [68], 06/12/2026
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"Workers at Washington Paper Mill Died of Chemical Burns" [69]

"Ten of the 11 plant workers killed at a Longview, Wash., paper mill last month died from alkaline chemical burns, the result of caustic liquid that flooded out of a failed holding tank and through the plant."

Chemicals [70]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Health [33]
People & Population [27]
Technology [48]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [71]
Source: New York Times [72], 06/12/2026
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Clergy Across New Jersey Urge Lawmakers To Pass Climate Superfund Act [73]

"More than 230 clergy and faith leaders representing congregations and faith communities across all 21 New Jersey counties are urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would require major fossil fuel companies to help pay for climate-related damage and infrastructure costs."

Activism [43]
Climate Change [31]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [34]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [74]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [75]
International [20]
Source: NJ Vindicator [76], 06/12/2026
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"No One Knows How to Handle Nurdle Spills" [77]

"A year after a shipwreck flooded India’s beaches with tiny plastic pieces, scientists fear the environmental damage has just begun."

Chemicals [70]
Public [17]
International [20]
Source: bioGraphic [78], 06/12/2026
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