EJToday: Top Headlines

"Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs" [9]

"The ruling is expected to have broad implications for the energy sector."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: E&E News [16], 02/23/2026
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Tijuana River Sewage Crisis is a Long-Lasting Public Health Calamity [17]

"Political gridlock has allowed the situation to worsen for decades"

Forests [18]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mexico [25]
Source: Sierra [26], 02/23/2026
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"House GOP Targets Green Groups Over Willow Fight" [27]

"House Republicans are investigating environmental groups over their efforts to stop a major oil and natural gas project in Alaska."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [32]
Source: E&E News [33], 02/23/2026
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"Jesse Jackson’s Vision For America Embraced Environmental Justice" [34]

"Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told her Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan from South Carolina, had died. “Immediately tears started coming,” said Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a New York City-based nonprofit."

Activism [35]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [29]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist/WBEZ [38], 02/23/2026
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Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change Laws [39]

"A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections."

Activism [35]
Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [24]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
International [15]
Australia & Oceania [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 02/23/2026
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Trump Approves Federal Emergency Declaration For Potomac River Sewage Spill [43]

"Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer."

Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Guardian [46], 02/23/2026
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Research Uncovers Shocking Level of Trade in Protected Chambered Nautiluses [47]

"The beautiful marine mollusks have international protections, but sale of their shells continues by the tens of thousands."

Biodiversity [28]
Economy & Business [11]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: The Revelator [49], 02/23/2026
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As Climate Crisis Upended Homeowners Insurance, Industry Resisted Regulation [50]

"When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [44]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Capital & Main [51], 02/23/2026
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"Group Files Suit Over Lack Of Saltmarsh Sparrow Action" [52]

"The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Feb. 11 for failing to make a preliminary decision about whether to expand protection for the saltmarsh sparrow, a bird whose population is in sharp decline around the Chesapeake Bay and the marshes along the East Coast."

Biodiversity [28]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Bay Journal [53], 02/23/2026
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‘There Has To Be Glitter’: Rio Carnival Loves Beach-Polluting Microplastics [54]

"A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine"

Chemicals [55]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [56]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [13]
South America [57]
Source: Guardian [58], 02/23/2026
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"E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Mercury Rules for Coal Plants, Documents Show" [59]

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show."

Air [60]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [61], 02/20/2026
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Doctors, Scientists and Kids Sue EPA for Backtracking on Climate Regs [62]

"Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals mark the beginning of a rocky legal road for the Environmental Protection Agency following its reversal of a 2009 rule underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 02/20/2026
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"Pesticide Use And Cancer Risk Rise Together Across America’s Heartland" [64]

"America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame."

Agriculture [65]
Chemicals [55]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Investgate Midwest [66], 02/20/2026
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"Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits" [67]

"President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits."

Agriculture [65]
Chemicals [55]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [68]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [22]
Technology [69]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [70], 02/20/2026
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‘Safe’ BPA Substitutes Tied To Infertility, Fetal Harm, Review Finds [71]

"Chemicals increasingly used to replace the toxic plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health through many of the same biological mechanisms, according to a narrative review of human, animal and laboratory studies."

Chemicals [55]
Consumer [72]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [22]
Science [73]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: U.S. Right to Know [74], 02/20/2026
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