EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say" [9]

"Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Science [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [19], 09/22/2025
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"National Parks Remove Signs About Climate, Slavery And Japanese Detention" [20]

"The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [22]
Government [23]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [26], 09/22/2025
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Pentagon Requires Journos To Pledge Only To Report Released Information [27]

"The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including unclassified information. Journalists who don’t abide by the policy risk losing credentials that provide access to the Pentagon, under a 17-page memo distributed Friday that steps up media restrictions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump."

Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [29], 09/22/2025
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"Dems Float Dueling CR With Energy, Environment Language" [30]

"Republicans rejected Democrats’ counteroffer on government funding before even seeing it."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [32], 09/22/2025
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"UN Treaty To Protect Oceans To Take Effect After Clinching Ratification [33]

"A UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the high seas was struck Friday after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law."

Biodiversity [34]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Government [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [36]
Source: France 24 [37], 09/22/2025
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"A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem" [38]

"When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [39], 09/22/2025
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Enviros Worry Trump Re-Do Will Imperil Wyoming’s Climate-Stressed Red Desert [40]

"A pending ‘amendment’ to the BLM’s Rock Springs management plan is likely to open previously undeveloped areas to oil and gas drilling, observers say."

Biodiversity [34]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
Source: WyoFile [44], 09/22/2025
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"Trump Nears Deal for Road Through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge" [45]

"The Trump administration is poised to approve a deal that would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska, according to internal Interior Department documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Biodiversity [34]
Disasters [46]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [47]
Health [48]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [25]
Transportation [50]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [51]
Source: NYTimes [52], 09/22/2025
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Colorado To Join Suit Alleging Oil Trains' Endangered Species Violations [53]

"Colorado, along with 15 other states, is poised to sue the federal government for ignoring endangered species regulations in a wide range of infrastructure projects on public lands. One of those projects, a controversial proposal to expand an oil shipping facility in Utah, would significantly increase hazardous rail shipments through Colorado."

Biodiversity [34]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [22]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
Source: States Newsroom [54], 09/22/2025
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‘Female Fairywrens Sing To Their Eggs’ And Eight More Facts About Birdsong [55]

"From carolling magpies to the lullaby of fairywrens, the nature and purpose of birdsong is more varied than you might think"

Biodiversity [34]
Environmental Studies [22]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [56], 09/22/2025
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Wildfire Smoke Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in US, New Study Warns [57]

"Smoke from wildfires exacerbated by climate change may cause as many as 71,000 additional deaths per year in the United States by 2050, a study published Thursday in the journal Nature found."

Air [58]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [59]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Studies [22]
Forests [47]
Pollution [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [36]
Canada [60]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 09/19/2025
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"Major Burgum Donor Lands Plum Job at Interior Department" [62]

"William Hague is a former telecom executive, and a campaign contributor to Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary."

Environmental Politics [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Public Domain [63], 09/19/2025
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"FOIA Records Reveal EPA Leaders Frequent Meetings With Industry Lobbyists" [64]

"Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission."

Agriculture [65]
Chemicals [66]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [59]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [67], 09/19/2025
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"A Coal-Burning Steel Plant May Thwart Cleveland’s Climate Goals" [68]

"The facility is the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology."

Air [58]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Technology [69]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [70]
Source: Canary Media [71], 09/19/2025
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"Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways" [72]

"This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways."

Activism [73]
Chemicals [66]
Consumer [59]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [74], 09/19/2025
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