EJToday: Top Headlines

"The U.S. will put together a $12 billion minerals stockpile, President Trump announced in the Oval Office on Monday."

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."

"Federal energy regulators last Thursday greenlit a roughly $2 billion renewable energy megaproject on a Yakama Nation sacred site overlooking the Columbia River in Klickitat County."

"The president exempted about 40 medical sterilization companies from Biden-era emissions standards. A new lawsuit challenges his authority."

"House Republicans say they want to offload "underutilized" federal buildings. Their math isn’t mathing."

"Members of the American Meteorological Society were briefed Wednesday about ongoing developments on the future of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which the White House has said it will break up."

"As freezing temperatures swept over West Texas last week, leaky pipeline systems in the Permian Basin of West Texas began to suck in air, spoiling their products, risking an explosion and leading operators to release or burn off vast volumes of gas."