"‘Black Box’: What Exactly Is Trump’s Energy Council Doing?"
"President Donald Trump launched a council to promote U.S. energy supremacy more than three months ago, but the advisory group remains an enigma."
Source: E&E News, 06/02/2025
EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines
EJToday is a daily weekday digest of top environment/energy news and information of interest to environmental journalists, independently curated by Editor Joseph A. Davis. Sign up below to receive in your inbox. For queries, email EJToday@SEJ.org. For more info, read an EJToday FAQ. Plus, follow EJToday on social media at @EJTodayNews, and flag stories of note by including the @EJTodayNews handle on your posts. And tell us how to make EJToday even better by taking this brief survey.
Want to join the EJToday team? Volunteer time commitments can vary from just an hour a month up to a daily contribution, and would involve helping to curate content of interest. To learn more, reach out to the director of publications, Adam Glenn, at sejournaleditor@sej.org.
Note: Members have additional options to choose from (you'll need your log-in info).
"This Little-Known ‘Dark Roof’ Lobby May Be Making Your City Hotter"
"As cities heat up, reflective roofs could lower energy bills and help the climate. But dark roofing manufacturers are waging a quiet campaign to block new rules."
Source: Floodlight, 06/02/2025"Mayors Are Making Climate Action Personal. It’s Working."
"As the Trump administration boosts fossil fuels and rolls back regulations, mayors are greening their cities — in more ways than one."
Source: Grist, 06/02/2025"PBS And Minnesota Public TV Station Sue Trump White House"
"PBS and a public television station in rural Minnesota filed suit on Friday against President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the network. The suit alleges Trump's order is unlawful, exceeding his authority as president and violating Constitutional protections of free speech because he has made clear he doesn't like PBS's news coverage and programming."
Source: NPR, 06/02/2025"Supreme Court Sets Tighter Limits On NEPA Reviews"
"The Supreme Court on Thursday placed new limits on environmental reviews for major federal projects such as pipelines and railways."
Source: E&E News, 05/30/2025$14 Billion In Clean Energy Projects Canceled In US This Year: Analysis
"More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s pending megabill has raised fears over the future of domestic battery, electric vehicle and solar and wind energy development."
Source: AP, 05/30/2025Trump Admin Reverses Planned Closures Of 3 Dozen US Mine Safety Offices
"The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws, the Department of Labor said Thursday."
Source: AP, 05/30/2025Appeals Court Revives Tribal Challenge To $10B SunZia Transmission Project
"A federal appeals court has sided with Native American tribes in their fight against the federal government over a $10 billion energy transmission line designed to carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California."
Source: AP, 05/30/2025"Louisiana Republicans Help Kill Anti-Fluoride Bill"
"Republicans in the Louisiana House stifled a proposal Wednesday that would have banned the addition of fluoride in public water systems — rejecting a burgeoning movement backed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
Source: The Hill, 05/30/2025"HHS Cancels Funding For Moderna To Develop Vaccines To Combat Bird Flu"
"The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday.
Source: Washington Post, 05/30/2025"Supreme Court Rejects Bid To Stop Arizona Copper Mine"
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from some members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to block a massive proposed copper mine that they say will destroy a holy site in Arizona known as Oak Flat."
Source: E&E News, 05/29/2025"Trump Plan Could Offload Hundreds Of National Park Sites To States"
"The National Park Service manages 433 units around the country, including many smaller parks aimed at preserving places of historical significance."
Source: E&E News, 05/29/2025"Judge Halts Trump Administration Effort To Axe New York Congestion Pricing"
"A judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration effort to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program, which imposes a significant toll on cars entering part of Manhattan."
Source: The Hill, 05/29/2025"A Michigan Coal Plant Was About To Close. Trump Ordered It To Stay Open."
"The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, and the grid operators responsible for maintaining reliability all agree it’s safe to shut them down."
Source: Canary Media, 05/29/2025Md. Advocates Urge Penalties on Gas Firm After False Environmental Claims
"Advocates are ramping up pressure on the Maryland Public Service Commission to penalize Washington Gas Light Company following a March ruling which found that the company misled millions of customers by claiming methane gas was better for the environment than electricity."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/29/2025
Advertisement 
