EJToday: Top Headlines

Trump's EPA Issues Record Low Legal Actions Against Polluters: Watchdog [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency enforces the country's environmental laws. But a new report shows the Trump EPA has initiated a record low number of actions against polluters, compared to past administrations."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [19], 02/05/2026
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"A Dismantling of the Washington Post" [20]

"In a staffwide call with employees Wednesday morning, Matt Murray, the executive editor of the Washington Post, and Wayne Connell, the paper’s chief human resources officer, announced sweeping staff cuts."

Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [23], 02/05/2026
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Study Ties Pollution From Wildfire Smoke To 24,100 US Deaths Per Year [24]

"Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study."

Air [25]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Forests [27]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [28], 02/05/2026
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Trouble on the Elwha: Trump’s Budget Cuts Undermine Salmon Restoration [29]

"A staffing exodus at Olympic National Park has put salmon recovery efforts in jeopardy."

Biodiversity [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Government [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [34]
Source: The Revelator [35], 02/05/2026
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"Energy Star Has Emerged Stronger After Trump's EPA Tried To End It" [36]

"The Trump administration tried to end the government's Energy Star program last year, but now Congress has passed — and President Trump has signed into law — bipartisan budget legislation that has the potential to strengthen the energy efficiency program by giving it dedicated funding."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [37]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [41], 02/05/2026
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Mexico’s Push For US Natural Gas Sparks Community Opposition [42]

"The sun has set and the clouds are washed in purple as Mauricio Contreras and his daughter Eunices head out to fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Eunices casts the heavy net for snapper, pollock or cabrilla while her father pilots their small boat."

Activism [43]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [44]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mexico [45]
Source: AP [46], 02/05/2026
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"Why China Is Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar And Wind Boom" [47]

"Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world’s largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Technology [40]
Public [17]
International [48]
Asia [49]
Source: AP [50], 02/05/2026
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"Traveler Special Report: Florida's Ailing Reef" [51]

"The Florida Reef, heralded in tourist come-ons as a “world-class natural wonderland waiting to be discovered,” is a vast and vibrant underwater world, extending from Atlantic Ocean waters north of Biscayne National Park, arcing south around the bottom of Florida, and swinging into the Gulf of Mexico where Dry Tortugas National Park is mostly submerged."

Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [11]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: National Parks Traveler [53], 02/05/2026
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"Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack" [54]

"Amid one of the driest winters on record, representatives from seven Western states have less than two weeks to meet an already-delayed federal deadline to find a new way to share the dwindling Colorado River—one that recognizes the megadrought and overconsumption plaguing the basin."

Agriculture [55]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [56]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 02/05/2026
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Trump Admin Uses Mascot Called ‘Coalie’ To Push Dirtiest Fossil Fuel [58]

"The Trump administration has turned to an unusual weapon in its attempt to resurrect coal mining – a cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, called “Coalie”."

Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Natural Resources [59]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [60], 02/05/2026
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"Global Aid Cuts Could Lead To 9.4 Million Deaths By 2030, Study Projects" [61]

"A new study published Monday in the Lancet puts a number on the potential human toll as the global humanitarian system cracks apart, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the current trends persist." "The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains."

Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [44]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [62]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [48]
Source: Washington Post [63], 02/04/2026
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"Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not." [64]

"A House hearing exposed sharp divisions over whether loosening environmental laws and expanding logging will protect communities from catastrophic fires. Scientists urged a shift toward investing in fire-resilient homes and landscapes."

Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [27]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [56]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 02/04/2026
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"Staff Exodus, Case Gridlock: DOJ Environment Division Under Trump 2.0" [66]

"One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door, gutting the government’s capacity to defend its own energy and climate policies and kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [59]
People & Population [15]
Policy [67]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [68], 02/04/2026
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"What One Year Of Trump’s Climate Censorship Reveals" [69]

"President Donald Trump has gone beyond policy overhauls to fundamentally alter the way the government talks about climate change and the environment, limiting or outright deleting countervailing language and evidence during the first year of his second term in office."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Context [70], 02/04/2026
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"Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels" [71]

"While record snowfall and single-digit temperatures pummel much of the United States, an extreme snow drought and unusually warm weather are keeping skiers off the mountains, snowmobilers off the trails and water out of the rivers across much of the West."

Agriculture [55]
Climate Change [11]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [72], 02/04/2026
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