EJToday: Top Headlines

"Judge Rules Department Of Energy’s Climate Working Group Was Illegal" [9]

"On Friday, a judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the law in forming its Climate Working Group, which released a report that was intended to undercut the rationale behind greenhouse gas regulations. The judge overseeing the case determined that the government tried to treat the Climate Working Group as a formal advisory body, while not having it obey many of the statutory requirements that govern such bodies."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Ars Techbica [19], 02/03/2026
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"Trump Announces $12B Minerals Stockpile" [20]

"The U.S. will put together a $12 billion minerals stockpile, President Trump announced in the Oval Office on Monday."

Chemicals [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [23], 02/03/2026
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"Courts Allow All Five Offshore Wind Projects Blocked By Trump To Resume" [24]

"A federal court on Monday halted the last of five stop work orders issued by the Trump administration in December to block major offshore wind farms, giving the wind energy industry five legal wins in a row over the government."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Source: The Hill [30], 02/03/2026
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Trump Energy Dept. Exempts New Nuclear Reactors From Environmental Review [31]

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."

Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [33]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [34]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [36]
Technology [27]
Waste [37]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [38], 02/03/2026
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"Undoing Utah National Monument Protections Risks Legal Chaos" [39]

"Republicans have a clear path to open national monuments to mining and fossil fuels by tossing out Biden-era conservation plans, but legal analysts say such a move would risk legal chaos."

Biodiversity [40]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [41]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [42], 02/03/2026
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"Feds Greenlight $2B Renewable Energy Project On Yakama Nation Sacred Site" [43]

"Federal energy regulators last Thursday greenlit a roughly $2 billion renewable energy megaproject on a Yakama Nation sacred site overlooking the Columbia River in Klickitat County."

Activism [44]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [46]
Technology [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [47]
Source: Washington State Standard [48], 02/03/2026
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Experts Call Omaha Coal Plant Clean Bill Of Health Misleading [49]

"On paper, the public power district serving much of eastern Nebraska has been trying to quit coal at its North Omaha plant since 2014. That June, its board voted to retire three of the plant’s five coal units in 2016 and convert the final two to natural gas in 2023."

Air [50]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [51]
Source: Flatwater Free Press [52], 02/03/2026
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"Trump’s Exemption For EtO Polluters Faces Its Latest Test In Court" [53]

"The president exempted about 40 medical sterilization companies from Biden-era emissions standards. A new lawsuit challenges his authority."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [54], 02/03/2026
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"Forever Stained" [55]

"How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy"

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [56]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [36]
Waste [37]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Source: Charleston Post and Courier [58], 02/03/2026
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"The Flimsy Numbers Behind The GOP Push To Sell Off Federal Properties" [59]

"House Republicans say they want to offload "underutilized" federal buildings. Their math isn’t mathing."

Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Public Domain [60], 02/03/2026
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"Bomb Cyclone Brings Freezing Temperatures And Snow To Millions In US" [61]

"A bomb cyclone produced freezing temperatures across a large portion of the US from the Gulf coast to New England, bringing heavy snow to North Carolina where two were killed in storm-related conditions, and setting records in Florida, where officials warned of ice and falling iguanas."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
People & Population [35]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Source: Guardian [62], 02/02/2026
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"The Future Of NCAR Remains Highly Uncertain" [63]

"Members of the American Meteorological Society were briefed Wednesday about ongoing developments on the future of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which the White House has said it will break up."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [41]
Science [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [64], 02/02/2026
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Trump DOE's Climate Skepticism Effort Violated Federal Law, Judge Rules [65]

"A federal judge ruled the U.S. Department of Energy violated federal law by hand picking scientists to produce a report downplaying global warming. The group met at least 18 times in secret and failed to comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act’s requirements for transparency and public meetings."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: LA Times [66], 02/02/2026
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Texas Petrochemical Plants Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds Of Pollutants In Freeze [67]

"As freezing temperatures swept over West Texas last week, leaky pipeline systems in the Permian Basin of West Texas began to suck in air, spoiling their products, risking an explosion and leading operators to release or burn off vast volumes of gas."

Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [36]
Public [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 02/02/2026
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Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills: Study [70]

"A sweeping proposal by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling could result in more than 4,000 oil spills in U.S. waters, according to a new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [71]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [72], 02/02/2026
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