EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Faces Fierce Opposition In Congress" [9]

"Lawmakers are girding for a fight against President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to open up the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines to offshore drilling." "Most coastal Republicans and Democrats said they wouldn’t back drilling off their states’ shores."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 10/28/2025
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"Ranchers Agreed To Leave A National Park. Then RFK Jr. Got Involved." [18]

"POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, California — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a wellness influencer and a pioneering dairy farmer joined forces earlier this year to upend a landmark deal that stopped most cattle operations at this park north of San Francisco."

Agriculture [19]
Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [23]
Source: E&E News [24], 10/28/2025
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"Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws" [25]

"The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights."

Activism [26]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [23]
Source: NYTimes [27], 10/28/2025
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Trump, GOP Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts [28]

"Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change."

Activism [26]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 10/28/2025
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"Six Ways the COP30 Climate Summit Can Succeed or Fail" [33]

"In a month’s time, nearly 200 countries will gather at the gates of the Amazon rainforest for a new round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. But there is still intense discussion about what the main outcome ought to be."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
International [35]
South America [36]
Source: Bloomberg [37], 10/27/2025
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"Trump Makes Laura Swett FERC Chair. What Will Be Her Focus?" [38]

"President Donald Trump on Thursday designated Laura Swett chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, marking the agency’s third leadership change in nine months."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [40], 10/27/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to Accelerate AI Power Hookups" [41]

"The Trump administration is pushing regulators to dramatically accelerate the process of allowing the booming data-center sector to connect to power grids."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg [42], 10/27/2025
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"Trump Claims ‘Wind Mills’ Kill Whales But Quietly Torpedoes The Science" [43]

"The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean."

Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [44]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [46]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [47], 10/27/2025
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"Attorneys Allege Chemours Hid Emission Data From Public" [48]

"Chemours’ air permit application to expand production at its Fayetteville Works plant excludes emissions data that should be disclosed to the public, environmental lawyers say."

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [51]
Pollution [52]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Coastal Review [54], 10/27/2025
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Russia Arrests Ukraine Biologist For Backing Curbs On Antarctic Krill Fishing [55]

"A diplomatic row has erupted over the “illegal” detention of one of Ukraine’s scientists, who has been accused by the Kremlin of undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in Antarctica."

Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [44]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [46]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [35]
Antarctica & Arctic [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 10/27/2025
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White House OKs More Oil And Gas Drilling In Alaska National Wildlife Refuge [58]

"The Trump administration has approved more oil and gas drilling across Alaska’s Arctic national wildlife refuge (ANWR), prompting widespread criticism from environmental conservation organizations." "National Petroleum Reserve lease sales and permitting for road through Izembek wildlife refuge were also approved"

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [59]
Source: Guardian [60], 10/24/2025
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"North Dakota Ranchers Say Trump’s Market Meddling Is Bad For Beef" [61]

"Ranchers are pushing against a Trump administration proposal to import beef from Argentina, a move they say is causing chaos in the market."

Agriculture [19]
Consumer [62]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [63]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [51]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
South America [36]
Source: States Newsroom [64], 10/24/2025
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"In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes on Pace to Break a Record" [65]

"The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [44]
Journalism & Media [50]
People & Population [51]
Science [46]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [35]
Source: NYTimes [66], 10/24/2025
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"‘Test Case’ For NEPA: Fast-Tracked Mine Reviews Fuel Outcry" [67]

"BLM is narrowing reviews for proposed mining projects in states like Nevada and Utah. Critics say the agency is on shaky legal ground."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [21]
Pollution [52]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [68]
Source: E&E News [69], 10/24/2025
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"Congress Members Question Pentagon’s Delay in ‘Forever Chemical’ Cleanup" [70]

"Three dozen members of Congress, including two Republicans, asked Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explain why the Pentagon has pushed back its cleanup of “forever chemical” contamination at nearly 140 military sites nationwide."

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [71]
Pollution [52]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [72], 10/24/2025
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