EJToday: Top Headlines

Farmers Turn To Perennial Grains As One Solution To Extreme Weather [9]

"Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what’s normal."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Food [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [16], 09/10/2026
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality [17]

"In the harrowing months th�at followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repeatedly assured that the air around the fallen towers was safe to breathe. But 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos as much as half a mile away, according to a sample of air quality records being released on Tuesday."

Chemicals [18]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [25]
Source: New York Times [26], 09/09/2026
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Smithsonian Chief To Retire As Trump Fights To Reshape The Institution [27]

"The Smithsonian Institution’s top official, Lonnie G. Bunch III, is retiring, ushering in a seismic transition at the nation’s museum and research organization just as President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign to influence its portrayal of American history." "Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said President Donald Trump’s pressure played no role in his decision and vowed to defend the institution’s independence until he leaves."

Government [28]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [30]
Science [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [32], 09/09/2026
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U.S. to Loan $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa [33]

"The Energy Department said on Tuesday that it would lend up to $1.9 billion to help restart a shuttered nuclear power plant in Iowa, in the Trump administration’s latest move aimed at reviving nuclear energy in the United States." "No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so."

Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: New York Times [37], 09/09/2026
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Judge Blocks Trump DOI Effort to Evict Hundreds of Bison From Public Land [38]

"A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to evict hundreds of bison from public lands in Montana."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Wildlife [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Public Domain [40], 09/09/2026
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Commentary: The Great Salt Lake — Utah’s Silent Health Emergency [41]

"In recent years, public discourse on air quality in Utah has rightly focused on the dangers of wildfire smoke. Wildfire events across the Western United States have degraded air quality for days and weeks at a time. Yet, while headlines chase each new plume of smoke, a slower and arguably more dangerous crisis has been allowed to develop with remarkably little urgency: the drying of the Great Salt Lake and the toxic dust it is now releasing into the air that Utahns breathe every single day."

Agriculture [10]
Air [42]
Chemicals [18]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [44]
Source: Utah News Dispatch [45], 09/09/2026
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Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks [46]

"Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields."

Energy & Fuel [34]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [36]
Pollution [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Capital & Main [47], 09/09/2026
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Report Flags Thousands Of Food Packaging Chemicals For Replacement [48]

"A new study identifies the chemical groups that packaging manufacturers and regulators should target for replacement in the food system to protect human health."

Activism [49]
Chemicals [18]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Chemical & Engineering News [50], 09/09/2026
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In an Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster, Rebuilding Is the Wrong Goal [51]

"This spring, the Southeast was on fire. Ninety-five percent of the region was in severe drought, and in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas what was burning was what’s called the “blowdown” from Hurricane Helene — the fires tearing through landscapes heavy with trees felled a year and a half ago and left to bake into ready fuel, waiting for a spark."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: New York Times [52], 09/09/2026
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S. Calif. Authorities Respond To A Leak Of An Unknown Chemical From A Tank [53]

"A slow leak from a chemical tank smeared an orange cloud across the sky of a Southern California neighborhood on Tuesday, but authorities said they quickly got it under control."

Chemicals [18]
Pollution [24]
Public [14]
California [54]
Source: AP [55], 09/09/2026
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Beloved Tree Fell In Washington And People Covered It With Thank-You Notes [56]

"Apparently, if a tree falls in Washington, people will notice — and even mourn its collapse."

Activism [49]
Biodiversity [11]
Forests [57]
People & Population [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Source: Washington Post [59], 09/09/2026
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Farmers Are Going Broke While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them [60]

"As farmers grapple with soaring diesel and fertilizer prices and the Department of Agriculture yanks support for cheaper, renewable forms of energy, the agency’s chief, Brooke Rollins, is carrying millions in highly profitable oil and gas investments."

Agriculture [10]
Conflict/Corruption [61]
Consumer [62]
Economy & Business [63]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 09/08/2026
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Underserved Communities Again Ask Courts to Restore Justice Grant Funding [65]

"Plaintiffs are continuing to press the Trump administration in federal court to restore $3 billion in grant funding for environmental and climate justice programs that would benefit underserved communities, as a Sept. 30 deadline nears."

Consumer [62]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [66]
Environmental Politics [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 09/08/2026
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Pipeline Firm That Spilled Fuel in Pa. Is Trying to Weaken Clean Water Law [68]

"Energy Transfer, the Dallas-based pipeline giant facing a state-level criminal probe related to a jet fuel spill that polluted drinking water in a suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, is seeking to have part of Pennsylvania’s 89-year-old Clean Streams Law declared unconstitutional."

Economy & Business [63]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 09/08/2026
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New Mexico Bans Uranium Leasing on State Lands [70]

"Officials in New Mexico, the nation’s largest historic producer of uranium ore, banned new leasing of state lands for uranium mining on Friday." "The move to block new mining projects comes as the Trump administration seeks to revive American uranium production."

Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [66]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [36]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [71]
Source: Inside Climate News [72], 09/08/2026
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