EJToday: Top Headlines

Arizona Probes Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Polluted Water Discharge [9]

"A proposed critical minerals mine in southern Arizona that was the first added to a federal permitting process designed to be quicker and more transparent has reported water with levels exceeding the state’s regulatory limits of a mineral that can damage the heart, lungs, stomach and eyes."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [18], 12/10/2025
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As NOAA Funding Lags, Critical Ocean Weather System Nears Breaking Point [19]

"Years of underfunding and new delays in federal grantmaking threaten buoys and ocean monitoring assets run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that protect fishermen, cargo ships and endangered species across the country."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Studies [22]
Infrastructure [23]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 12/10/2025
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Trump Said Weaker Gas Mileage Rules Will Mean Cheaper Cars. Experts Disagree [27]

"President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken rules for how far automakers’ new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline, set under former President Joe Biden. ... Here are the facts."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [32], 12/10/2025
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DOJ Ends Monitoring Of Illegal Dumping In Houston Minority Neighborhoods [33]

"The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental justice initiatives."

Environmental Justice [34]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [14]
Waste [35]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: AP [36], 12/10/2025
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"How Tariffs Hit The Brakes On America’s Booming E-Bike Industry" [37]

"Rad Power Bikes is on the verge of becoming the biggest casualty yet in the nation’s struggling electric bicycle sector, which saw its pandemic-era growth spurt blunted by tariffs, overproduction and slowing demand."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [38]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Technology [39]
Transportation [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [40], 12/10/2025
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Journal Retracts Study On Safety Of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Ethical Concerns’ [41]

"The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer."

Agriculture [42]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [14]
Science [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [44], 12/09/2025
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"Federal Judge Finds Trump’s Halt on Wind Energy Is Illegal" [45]

"A federal judge on Monday struck down President Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters, dealing a significant legal setback to the administration’s campaign against wind farms."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [30]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Technology [39]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [46], 12/09/2025
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PEER Warns that OIRA Chief Jeffrey Clark’s “Acting” Role Is Illegal [47]

"In a new letter to U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is warning that Jeffrey Clark’s role as “Acting Administrator” of the Office of information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) and actions he has taken could be in legal jeopardy."

Activism [48]
Biodiversity [49]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [30]
Government [50]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [51]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: PEER [52], 12/09/2025
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"More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters" [53]

"A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [30]
Environmental Studies [22]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Planning & Growth [54]
Pollution [14]
Technology [39]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [55], 12/09/2025
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"States Push To End Secrecy Over Data Center Water Use" [56]

"States facing drought and dwindling groundwater supplies are seeking to pull back the curtain on water use at data centers, in a push for transparency that has scrambled traditional partisan alliances."

Agriculture [42]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Politics [30]
Environmental Studies [22]
Journalism & Media [57]
Planning & Growth [54]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [58], 12/09/2025
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"Trump Admin Orders Parks To Purge Shops Of DEI, Trans References" [59]

"The National Park Service has ordered park rangers to remove books and retail items at park gifts shops that run afoul of President Donald Trump’s edicts targeting diversity and equity across the federal government, according to a recent memo viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [30]
Journalism & Media [57]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [51]
Science [43]
Wildlife [60]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [61], 12/09/2025
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"Under RFK Jr., The CDC Provides A Megaphone To The Anti-Vaccine Movement" [62]

"For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fought attempts by the anti-vaccine movement to sow doubts in the safety and efficacy of the shots that marked a triumph of public health. This week, the agency instead provided a powerful platform for the cause."

Activism [48]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [63]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [51]
Science [43]
Technology [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [64], 12/09/2025
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"Conservatives Sound Alarm About Westerman’s NEPA Bill" [65]

"Members of the House Freedom Caucus are objecting to House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman’s big permitting bill, contributing to a planned floor vote being postponed."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [66], 12/09/2025
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NPS Fee-Free Calendar Drops MLK Day, Juneteenth And Adds Trump's Birthday [67]

"The Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from next year's calendar of entrance fee-free days for national parks and added President Trump's birthday to the list, according to the National Park Service, as the administration continues to push back against a reckoning of the country's racist history on federal lands."

Diversity [68]
Economy & Business [38]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [30]
Journalism & Media [57]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [51]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [69]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NPR [70], 12/09/2025
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"New White House “Hall of Shame” Webpage Expands Trump’s War On The Press" [71]

"“Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” Far from encouraging trustworthy journalism, the new media bias page on the White House website is the Trump administration’s latest effort to pillory the media. Journalists and outlets critical of Trump’s measures are labelled as “offenders” with no factual breakdown of why their reporting is incorrect."

Environmental Politics [30]
Journalism & Media [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: RSF [72], 12/09/2025
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