EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Withdrawal From Bedrock UN Climate Treaty Raises Legal Questions" [9]

"The Trump administration's decision to withdraw the United States from the foundational U.N. climate treaty, which the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted more than 30 years ago, may be illegal, according to some legal experts who say that Congress would need to approve its exit."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 01/09/2026
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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules [17]

"In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks."

Air [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ProPublica [22], 01/09/2026
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After White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area [23]

"Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are 'overwhelmingly' non-white."

Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: Capital B [29], 01/09/2026
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"FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers" [30]

"Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisors are advising their staff to prepare for the elimination of 1,000 jobs this month as part of changes that Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is overseeing at the agency, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [34], 01/09/2026
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"Here’s Why New EPA Rules On ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Could Fall Short" [35]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to regulate five types of phthalates, chemicals that are widely used in plastics and other common products."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [37], 01/09/2026
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"EPA Delays Enforcement Of Regional Haze Guidelines" [38]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is once again delaying the enforcement of regional haze guidelines. The agency has given states a three-year extension to submit plans to clean up harmful air pollution at national parks and improve public health, according to Sierra Club."

Air [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: National Parks Traveler [39], 01/09/2026
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"House GOP Prioritizes Trump’s Changes To Showerheads" [40]

"House Republicans are hoping to soon deliver a win for President Donald Trump’s agenda — or at least his hair — by voting to codify his long-desired showerhead changes into law, one of their top priorities of the new session."

Consumer [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [41], 01/09/2026
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"Ohio Utility Corruption Defendants To SCOTUS: Bribes Are Free Speech" [42]

"The only two individuals who have stood trial for their role in the largest utility corruption scandal in Ohio’s history have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their cases and reverse their convictions."

Economy & Business [43]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [44]
Source: Canary Media [45], 01/09/2026
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"White House Finalizes Overhaul of Environmental Permitting Rules" [46]

"A White House environmental office will officially strike down its federal permitting rules Thursday, wiping out a set of standards that had been in place nearly 50 years."

Environmental Politics [11]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 01/09/2026
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My Brush With Dengue Was Excruciating. Even Scarier: How Fast It’s Spreading [48]

"When the chills, body shivers, and pounding headache first hijacked my system, I was 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, midway through a 14-hour flight to Manila in the Philippines."

Biodiversity [49]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Wildlife [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [51], 01/09/2026
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"Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Agreement" [52]

"President Trump announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing the United States from the bedrock international agreement that forms the basis for countries to rein in climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [53], 01/08/2026
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"New Dietary Guidance Pushes Whole Milk, Warns Against Processed Food" [54]

"The Trump administration released new dietary guidelines Wednesday that call for Americans to limit highly processed foods, such as those high in added sugars and sodium, and that endorse products that had once been discouraged by many nutritionists, such as whole milk, butter and red meat."

Agriculture [55]
Chemicals [19]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [56]
Health [57]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [58], 01/08/2026
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FDA Misses Another Deadline To Ban Formaldehyde In Hair-Straighteners [59]

"The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black women."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: CNN [60], 01/08/2026
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What a Trump Invasion Could Mean for Greenland’s Minerals and Environment [61]

"The Danish territory holds significant stores of oil, gas and minerals. But regulations and the extreme environment have kept the vast majority in the ground."

Economy & Business [43]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Military [62]
Natural Resources [63]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [15]
Europe [64]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 01/08/2026
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"Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say" [66]

"Given Venezuela’s murky political future, few analysts expect a rush to invest the billions needed to pump more oil from the world’s largest reserves."

Economy & Business [43]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [26]
Natural Resources [63]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Central America & the Caribbean [67]
South America [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 01/08/2026
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