EJToday: Top Headlines

"Forcing Dirty Power Plants To Stay Open Would Cost Americans Billions" [9]

"The Trump admin’s scheme to keep old fossil-fuel plants running could saddle utility customers with nearly $6 billion a year in unnecessary costs, a report finds."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Technology [21]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Canary Media [24], 08/15/2025
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Trump FTC Blocks California’s Emissions Agreement With Truck Manufacturers [25]

"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has declared that an emissions agreement between California and four major truck makers is “unenforceable” — paving the way for noncompliance with the Golden State’s pollution rules, which are stricter than federal standards."

Air [26]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [20]
Technology [21]
Transportation [27]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [28]
Source: The Hill [29], 08/15/2025
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Duffy Says NASA Will Dump Climate Science, Focus Only On Space Exploration [30]

"Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [16]
Science [31]
Technology [21]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: The Hill [32], 08/15/2025
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"Forest Experts Warn Spending Bill Sets Up US Forest Service to Fail" [33]

"The recently passed spending bill sets logging targets that federal officials don’t have the capacity to meet" "The new law sets aggressive timber harvesting goals and slashes spending for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Environmental advocates and industry insiders say those goals are contradictory and unworkable."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [36]
Government [37]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Sierra [40], 08/15/2025
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Environmental Justice Test for Trump EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death [41]

"EPA expressed alarm at contamination in a creek near a predominantly Black neighborhood. Then the agency eliminated its civil-rights office and has taken no further action."

Chemicals [42]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 08/15/2025
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Tropical Storm Erin Likely To Become A Long-Lived Atlantic Hurricane [47]

"Tropical Storm Erin has begun what’s expected to be a week-plus oceanic journey across the North Atlantic. As it looks now, much of that trek will be as a potent hurricane that bears close watching."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [14]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [48], 08/14/2025
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"Wildfires Fanned By Heatwave And Strong Winds Rage Across Europe" [49]

"Wildfires caused by arsonists or thunderstorms and fanned by a heatwave and strong winds wreaked destruction across southern Europe on Wednesday, burning homes and forcing thousands of residents and tourists to flee."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Forests [36]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Canada [50]
Europe [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 08/14/2025
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"Homeless and Burning in America’s Hottest City" [53]

"The sun was barely up when the three-person medical team pulled into the parking lot of a Phoenix soup kitchen, but the temperature was already around 90 degrees, on its way to 111."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
People & Population [19]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: NYTimes [55], 08/14/2025
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"White House Delays Public Release Of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Strategy" [56]

"Industry will have to wait longer for the report, which is expected to give the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases."

Activism [57]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [37]
Health [58]
People & Population [19]
Science [31]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Politico [59], 08/14/2025
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"California’s Clean-Air Program for Polluted Communities Faces Crossroads" [60]

"On Aug. 6, 2012, a fire broke out at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Liquid hydrocarbon spewed from a leaky pipe in the crude unit and ignited, sending smoke plumes into the air that could be seen across the Bay. Nearby residents struggled to breathe and reported headaches, chest pains and itchy eyes. More than 15,000 people sought medical help."

Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [28]
Source: KQED [61], 08/14/2025
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Wisc. Communities Affected By PFAS Await Action On $125 Million Trust Fund [62]

"Around the state, several communities with "forever chemical" contamination have been counting on the Legislature passing a bill to help them, but as the summer stretches on, many advocates are worried that lawmakers will fail to pass yet another proposal."

Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [63]
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [64], 08/14/2025
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New Draft Of Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Wouldn’t Limit Production [65]

"Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn’t limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products."

Chemicals [42]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [38]
Pollution [20]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [22]
International [66]
Source: AP [67], 08/14/2025
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"Syngenta Closer To Settling Thousands Of US Paraquat Lawsuits" [68]

"Syngenta is another step closer to potentially putting an end to thousands of lawsuits brought by people blaming the company’s paraquat weed killer for causing Parkinson’s disease."

Agriculture [69]
Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: The New Lede [70], 08/14/2025
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Florida’s First Black Bear Hunt In A Decade Approved Despite Opposition [71]

"The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade will take place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials despite strong opposition to the eventual use of dogs and targeting the animals in baited locations."

Biodiversity [34]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [38]
Wildlife [39]
Public [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: AP [72], 08/14/2025
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Trump Relaxes Rules For Rocket Launches, Seeming To Benefit Musk And Bezos [73]

"Companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin may be able to forgo reviews required under National Environmental Policy Act"

Chemicals [42]
Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [20]
Public [22]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: Guardian [74], 08/14/2025
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