EJToday: Top Headlines

What the Democratic Midterm Sweep Means for Climate and Clean Energy [9]

"Expect investigations of Trump officials and companies, and a complicated path on permitting reform."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg News [18], 11/05/2026
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Trump’s Midterm Collapse Is Good News For Public Lands [19]

"Democrats will act as a more effective check on the GOP’s continuing rollback of public land protections."

Biodiversity [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [24], 11/05/2026
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The End Of Trump’s Most Potent Legacy: Judgeships [25]

"Democrats’ romp wiped away the president’s chance at muscling through many more judicial nominees."

Conflict/Corruption [26]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: POLITICO [29], 11/05/2026
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The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers [30]

"From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Planning & Growth [32]
Pollution [15]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: WIRED [35], 11/05/2026
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How Trump’s Energy Policies Helped Trigger Tuesday’s Election Rout [36]

"The war in Iran, efforts to promote fossil fuels and attacks on renewable energy contributed to higher prices for gas and electricity that drove voter discontent."

Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [26]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: New York Times [37], 11/05/2026
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Hakeem Jeffries Announces Run For Speaker, Promising ‘Dramatic Change’ [38]

"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues Wednesday." "With a huge majority and no expected competition, he is likely to cruise to the speakership."

Environmental Politics [14]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: POLITICO [39], 11/05/2026
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Babies More Likely To Have Heart Defects In SE Louisiana’s Polluted Areas [40]

"A study looking at babies hospitalized in New Orleans found that babies born to mothers from neighborhoods in south-east Louisiana with high levels of industrial pollution were four times more likely to suffer from severe congenital heart defects."

Chemicals [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 11/05/2026
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Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers [45]

"Across wide stretches of the sun-bleached Sonoran desert in Arizona, thousands of retired aircraft sit nose-to-tail in graveyards of metal known as boneyards. Many of their engines haven’t been fired up for years. But America’s soaring demand for electricity to power data centers is bringing them back to life."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: New York Times [46], 11/05/2026
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Vermont Never Got Mandated Audit of Its Lake Champlain Cleanup [47]

"Halfway through a 20-year push to get Vermont’s waterways in line with tougher EPA standards, some lawmakers worry the project’s strategies aren’t as cost-effective as they could be — especially as a state-mandated audit was never done."

Biodiversity [20]
Chemicals [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Source: Seven Days [50], 11/05/2026
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Rich Countries Fall Far Short On Climate Adaptation Funding, UN Says [51]

"Rich countries are falling well short of the $305 billion needed each year ‌to help developing nations adapt to climate change, even as extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, a UN report said on Wednesday."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [16]
International [52]
Source: Reuters [53], 11/05/2026
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Democrats Win House And Senate As Voters Deliver Strong Rebuke To Trump [54]

"Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump."

Conflict/Corruption [26]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [55], 11/04/2026
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EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Factory Farms [56]

"The agency says it will suspend efforts, in the works for more than 20 years, to develop measures that would allow the agency to enforce bedrock clean air laws at factory farms."

Agriculture [57]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 11/04/2026
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Bearing The Borderlands [59]

"Pregnant women in Arizona’s colonias live near pesticide-sprayed fields and far from care. State maternal health plans don’t consider pollution."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [60]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [61]
Source: The Margin [62], 11/04/2026
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Ohio Denies Fracking Waste in Drinking Water. Its Records Show Otherwise. [63]

"As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor’s race."

Chemicals [41]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [15]
Waste [64]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [65]
Source: DeSmog [66], 11/04/2026
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Honk if You Know Why Delhi’s Air Is So Bad [67]

"Every winter, India’s capital is blanketed with toxic smog. Breathing it in is like smoking roughly a dozen cigarettes a day. A major culprit: its notorious traffic."

Air [68]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
Asia [69]
Source: New York Times [70], 11/04/2026
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