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Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Votes as Midterm Fight Heats Up [9]

"The White House is using federal disaster relief as leverage while Republicans fight to keep power in Washington, with President Trump saying on one occasion that voting for Democrats could mean less money for states."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [18]
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National (U.S.) [20]
Source: New York Times [21], 10/27/2026
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Researchers Leave US Because Of Trump Cuts And Politicization Of Science [22]

"Halley Froehlich was sure she’d spend her scientific career in the United States. Her family has been in America since the 1700s. But over the past two years, delayed federal grants and fears about the future motivated her to pack her life into boxes. She moved to Finland with her husband and daughter and is continuing her research — studying how fish, shellfish and seaweed that humans eat are responding to climate change — at the University of Helsinki."

Environmental Politics [15]
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Science [23]
Technology [24]
Public [19]
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Source: AP [25], 10/27/2026
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Lula Wins Historic Fourth Term As Brazilian President, Defeats Bolsonaro [26]

"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [28]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [19]
South America [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 10/26/2026
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West Virginia Attorney General Subpoenas Environmental Groups [31]

"West Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights."

Activism [32]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: The Hill [35], 10/26/2026
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Locations of N. Carolina Poultry CAFOs Have Been a Secret — Until Now [36]

"A few days before Christmas in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received a complaint through its National Response Center: “There has been a horrible smell in the air for almost a week,” the caller said, according to state records. “It’s so bad it’s making people throw up.”"

Activism [32]
Agriculture [37]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [38]
Waste [39]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 10/26/2026
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Europe’s Intense Summer Heat May Have Led To 50K Deaths, Report Says [42]

"About 50,000 more people died in European cities between June and August than would have if temperatures had not been abnormally hot, researchers estimate."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [18]
Public [19]
Europe [43]
Source: Washington Post [44], 10/26/2026
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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass [45]

"The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether."

Air [46]
Chemicals [47]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [38]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: New York Times [48], 10/26/2026
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Nearly All of World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered [49]

"If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Science [23]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [51]
Source: New York Times [52], 10/26/2026
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New Famine Risk Haunts War-Torn Sudan With El Niño-Driven Drought [53]

"After more than three years of war, a lull in fighting raised hopes that a good harvest would ease hunger in Sudan. Instead, El Niño has delivered a damaging drought and, in some areas, led to the lowest rainfall since 1984, the year famine devastated Sudan and Ethiopia."

Agriculture [37]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Food [54]
Military [55]
People & Population [18]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
Africa [56]
Middle East [57]
Source: Reuters [58], 10/26/2026
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PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated: New Study [59]

"Researchers found that treating PFAS measurements below laboratory reporting limits as “zero” may underestimate how widespread the chemicals are in U.S. drinking water."

Chemicals [47]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [38]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 10/26/2026
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Alabama’s New Data Center Rules Still Leave Customers in the Dark: Critics [61]

"“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [62]
Energy & Fuel [63]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [38]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 10/26/2026
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Landmark Youth Climate Trial Against Canadian Government Is About to Begin [65]

"The trial, which starts Monday, comes as Canada rolls back climate policies. A new government report warns the country could experience 5 degrees Celsius of warming under current emissions trajectories."

Activism [32]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [38]
Public [19]
Canada [66]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 10/26/2026
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Oil and Tech Money Back Measure to Limit California Environmental Law [68]

"Proposition 45 would ease development of a wide range of projects, including some fossil-fuel facilities and possibly AI data centers."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [63]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [38]
Technology [24]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [69]
Source: Capital & Main [70], 10/23/2026
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W. Va. Investigates Green Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Climate Change Advocacy [71]

"West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving “unfair or deceptive acts” in their fundraising and climate change advocacy."

Activism [32]
Climate Change [10]
Conflict/Corruption [72]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [73]
People & Population [18]
Public [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Source: AP [74], 10/23/2026
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Suspends Permit For Major Amazon Gold Mine [75]

"Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest, dealing a setback to a Canadian company’s plans to develop an open-pit mine along a river already affected by one of the country’s largest hydroelectric dams."

Chemicals [47]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [73]
Pollution [38]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [19]
South America [29]
Source: AP [76], 10/23/2026
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