EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Hope for a Trump Energy Boom Is Marred by Anxiety About Tariffs" [9]

"Tariff threats. Growing uncertainty about the economy. And a push for much lower oil prices. For all of their bravado about U.S. energy dominance and enthusiasm for deregulation, American energy executives are beginning to worry about President Trump’s agenda."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 03/18/2025
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Trump Halted Agent Orange Cleanup, Putting Hundreds of Thousands at Risk [18]

"In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Military [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Asia [24]
Source: ProPublica [25], 03/18/2025
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"Ohio Supreme Court Weighs High-Stakes Solar Permitting Case" [26]

"A regulatory board’s rejection of a permit for a large solar farm in southwestern Ohio has “essentially rewritten” state law to give local governments veto power over clean energy projects, an attorney for the project’s developer argued last week before the Ohio Supreme Court."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Source: Canary Media [29], 03/18/2025
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COP30 Mulls Hiring PR Firm That Worked For Weaker Amazon Protections [30]

"Edelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal."

Biodiversity [31]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [33]
Journalism & Media [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [16]
South America [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 03/18/2025
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Line 5, A Trump Donor, Profiting Off A Pipeline Deal Threatening Pollution [37]

"Donald Trump’s administration is being accused by activists of a quid pro quo as it attempts to fast-track a controversial fossil fuel pipeline proposal in Michigan that would in part be built by a donor with deep financial ties to the president."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Canada [41]
Source: Guardian [42], 03/18/2025
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"A Famous Climate Scientist Won A $1M Verdict. Then His Case Took A Turn." [43]

"A judge vastly reduced climate researcher Michael Mann’s award, sanctioned his lawyers for presenting false evidence and ordered him to pay $530,000."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [45], 03/18/2025
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After Cuts, Former NOAA Chief Scientist Says U.S. Science Risks Downgrade [46]

"With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [47]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
Science [44]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: bioGraphic [48], 03/18/2025
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"Trump Says He’s Authorizing Administration to Produce Coal Power" [49]

"US President Donald Trump said he would look to counter China’s economic advantage from coal-based electricity by authorizing his administration to ramp up production of energy from the fossil fuel."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [16]
Source: Bloomberg [50], 03/18/2025
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"Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion." [51]

"Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [52]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Technology [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [54], 03/18/2025
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"Judge Orders EPA To Rehire Fired Employees" [55]

"EPA is now among the agencies facing court orders to reinstate “probationary” employees who were terminated as part of President Donald Trump’s endeavor to shrink the federal government."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [56]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [57], 03/17/2025
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"Burn Pit Fund For Veterans On Chopping Block In GOP Spending Bill" [58]

"Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed by House Republicans this week that would cut a Department of Veteran Affairs fund meant to cover costs for illnesses linked to military burn pits and other chemical exposure."

Air [59]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [21]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [60], 03/17/2025
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"Reality Check: Hurdles Await EPA’s Deregulatory Spree" [61]

"The Trump administration won’t have an easy time legally defending its massive regulatory rollback. It could still cause major damage."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [62], 03/17/2025
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Some US Scientists Stick with the IPCC Despite Trump Pullout [63]

"Despite a series of directives from the Trump administration aimed at disengaging the U.S. government from international climate collaboration, five U.S. scientists are part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s team of 100 experts from 50 countries who met in Osaka, Japan, this week to start writing a report about global warming and cities that is due in 2027."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [47]
Science [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 03/17/2025
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Trump Admin Voids Permit for New Jersey Wind Farm Trump Opposes [65]

"A critical permit for an offshore wind farm planned near the New Jersey Shore has been invalidated by an administrative appeals board, seven weeks after President Donald Trump declared he hoped the project was “dead and gone.”

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [66]
Source: Bloomberg [67], 03/17/2025
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"Decision To Axe Advisory Groups Could Spell Trouble For US Food Safety" [68]

"A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, critics fear, particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors."

Agriculture [69]
Chemicals [19]
Consumer [52]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [70]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The New Lede [71], 03/17/2025
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