EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"The Ecological Benefits Of Far-Ranging Bison Herds" [9]

"Bison once moved across North America in herds that blackened the landscape in all directions, in numbers estimated not in the hundreds but in the tens of thousands."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [17]
Source: National Parks Traveler [18], 09/02/2025
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"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [19]

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Chemicals [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [29], 08/29/2025
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RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources [30]

"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."

Chemicals [20]
Consumer [31]
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [33]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: CNN [37], 08/29/2025
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"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All." [38]

"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."

Chemicals [20]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ [41], 08/29/2025
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Public Media Stations In Rural US Say Emergency-Alert Funding Is In Jeopardy [42]

"When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. "We're on an island, and there's one road, and everybody that lived south of that road lost everything — they lost their electricity, internet, television, phones," says Cindy Sweat, the general manager of KSTK, the community's public broadcaster. What was left, Sweat says, was the radio."

Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [39]
Journalism & Media [43]
People & Population [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
Source: NPR [45], 08/29/2025
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"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol" [46]

"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."

Climate Change [47]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [48]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [49]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [51]
Source: KING5 [52], 08/29/2025
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‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [53]

"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [49]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
Africa [55]
Source: AP [56], 08/29/2025
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Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others [57]

"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."

Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [49]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Technology [35]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The New Lede [58], 08/29/2025
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White House Fires CDC Director Who Says RFK Jr. Is ‘Weaponizing Public Health’ [59]

"The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed."

Climate Change [47]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [33]
Health [60]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Science [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [61]
Source: Washington Post [62], 08/28/2025
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Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Pushes Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals [63]

"President Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the United States, he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal."

Climate Change [47]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [27]
Science [34]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [61]
Source: NYTimes [64], 08/28/2025
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FEMA Employees Put On Leave After Letter Criticizing Trump Administration [65]

"The Trump administration placed more than 30 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave Tuesday after they signed an open letter of dissent about the agency’s leadership, according to people familiar with the situation and documents reviewed by The Washington Post."

Climate Change [47]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [33]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [66], 08/28/2025
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"Trump Administration Presses Rollback Of ‘Roadless Rule’ On Wild Lands" [67]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California."

Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [47]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [48]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [50]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: LA Times [68], 08/28/2025
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"Proposed NASA Cuts Could Affect Public Health Research" [69]

"From space, NASA collects data that’s crucial for public health. Potential cuts could threaten that work."

Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [47]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [70]
Forests [48]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Undark [71], 08/28/2025
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"Parks And Museums Emerge As New Culture War Battlegrounds" [72]

"U.S. parks and museums are becoming the latest battleground in the nation’s culture wars as President Trump seeks changes to the way national parks and the Smithsonian tell the story of America."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [43]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [73], 08/28/2025
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"Hurricane Science Has Come Far Since Katrina. That Progress Is Now At Risk" [74]

"In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, hurricane scientists have made great strides toward understanding how climate change influences tropical cyclones, at the same time as they have vastly improved hurricane forecasting. Better forecasts, in turn, save the country billions every time a storm makes landfall, according to a 2024 analysis published in the National Bureau of Economic Research."

Climate Change [47]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [70]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [39]
People & Population [26]
Transportation [75]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [76]
Source: NPR [77], 08/28/2025
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