EJToday: Top Headlines

"White House To Slash $8B In Funding For Blue States" [9]

"White House budget director Russ Vought on Wednesday said the Trump administration will cancel almost $8 billion in federal funding for green projects, directly targeting 16 states that did not vote for President Donald Trump in the presidential election."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 10/03/2025
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Explosion Left a Black Town Contaminated. Politics Are Stunting the Cleanup. [21]

"On the banks of the Tangipahoa River in South Louisiana, thick oil slicks and chemical odors ripple across the water. Five weeks after an oil and lubricant facility exploded, sending oily soot as far as 40 miles away, Black residents still complain that the chemical smell is so strong that it wakes them up in the middle of the night."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Source: Capital B [26], 10/03/2025
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"Calif. Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy" [27]

"If you’re young, pregnant and Latina, chances are you live near agricultural fields sprayed with higher levels of brain-damaging organophosphate pesticides."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 10/03/2025
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"Duke Energy Backs Off Renewables After North Carolina Cuts Climate Goal" [31]

"The state repealed the utility’s 2030 emissions target in July. Duke’s response? A plan to slash solar and wind, double down on gas — and burn more coal."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [32]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Source: Canary Media [34], 10/03/2025
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"EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers" [35]

"The Trump administration has begun prioritizing the review of new, potentially hazardous chemicals used in data centers that public health advocates and environmental attorneys warn could endanger workers, communities and the environment."

Chemicals [22]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Planning & Growth [36]
Pollution [17]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 10/03/2025
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EPA, EES Coke Battery $135 Million Apart Penalties As Pollution Trial Ends [38]

"When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was “permitted to do so,” said Michael Hindelang, attorney for the utility and its subsidiaries that are defendants in the EPA’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the emissions."

Air [39]
Chemicals [22]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: Planet Detroit [41], 10/03/2025
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"From Bombs To Glass: Hanford Site Can Now Transform Nuclear Waste" [42]

"For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic bomb to the arms race that fueled the Cold War. Now, after decades of planning and billions of dollars of investment, the site is turning liquid nuclear and chemical waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation into a much safer substance: glass."

Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [43]
Pollution [17]
Waste [44]
Water & Oceans [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [46]
Source: AP [47], 10/03/2025
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EPA Ends Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap? [48]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to track emissions and form climate policy. Climate NGOs say their work could help plug some of the data gap, but they and other experts fear the EPA’s work can’t be fully matched."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [49]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: WIRED [51], 10/03/2025
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"Trump Coal Plan Includes Private Land Unlikely to be Mined" [52]

"Nearly 85% of the 13.1 million acres the Trump administration is opening to coal leasing is private or state-owned and unlikely to be mined anytime soon, except for land adjacent to existing coal mines, analysts say."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [54], 10/03/2025
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"The Resistance Rangers Want Your Help in Protecting National Parks" [55]

"On March 1, under a clear sky, hundreds of people flocked to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park—not to picnic but to protest. Two weeks earlier, the National Park Service had fired roughly 1,000 employees."

Activism [56]
Biodiversity [57]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [49]
Government [50]
Natural Resources [53]
People & Population [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Source: Sierra [59], 10/03/2025
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Federal Agents Shove Journalists At NYC Immigration Court, Hospitalizing One [60]

"Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [50]
Journalism & Media [61]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Military [62]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [63], 10/02/2025
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Despite Trump Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online [64]

"Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals."

Activism [56]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [50]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [61]
Science [65]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [66]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 10/02/2025
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"Can A New Fund Give Tropical Forests A Future?" [68]

"Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a $1 billion investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) to support forest conservation this week at a United Nations event in New York."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [69]
Natural Resources [53]
People & Population [24]
Public [18]
International [66]
South America [70]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [71], 10/02/2025
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National Parks Open With Limited Staff. Oil/Gas Permitting Continues Apace [72]

"On Tuesday evening, with the federal government on the brink of a shutdown, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took to social media to tout the agency’s deployment of autonomous lawnmowers on the National Mall and at several other National Park sites."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Public Domain [73], 10/02/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules on Climate Super Pollutants" [74]

"The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to relax a Biden-era rule that requires grocery stores, air-conditioning companies, semiconductor plants and others to sharply and rapidly reduce some powerful greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment."

Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [33]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [75], 10/02/2025
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