"EPA Cements Delay Of Biden-Era Methane Rule For Oil And Gas"
"The Trump administration on Wednesday cemented its delay of Biden-era regulations on planet-warming methane coming from the oil and gas industry."
Source: The Hill, 12/02/2025
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Citizen Pollution Monitors Face Industry Pushback, Legal Threats
A steep decline in the enforcement of environmental laws means the monitoring of pollution by citizens is more important than ever. But as the latest TipSheet notes, some states have passed laws that severely constrain the use of citizen monitoring or the sharing of findings. Get the backstory, along with top reporting angles and resources for finding monitoring in your area.
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country
For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.
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"The State of Local News 2025": 20 Years of Data, Deserts and Dynamic Change
"News deserts are widening. Newspaper closures continue unabated. Independent publishers are calling it quits at an alarming rate. Yet local digital-only news sites are multiplying. Many are even thriving."
Source: Medill, 12/01/2025
EPA Urged To Ban Spraying Of Antibiotics On Food Crops Amid Resistance Fears
"A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop allowing farms to spray antibiotics on food crops in the US because they are probably causing superbugs to flourish and sickening farm workers."
Source: Guardian, 12/01/2025
"New US National Parks Fees For International Visitors Draw Scrutiny"
"Environmentalists and former agency employees warn of increased workloads for park employees at a time when park staffing is already low." "U.S. citizenship will determine how expensive it is to access America’s national parks beginning next year, the Interior Department announced yesterday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/01/2025
"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War"
"Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2025
What’s Lost With Federal Funding Cuts At USGS Climate Science Centers
"When the Trump administration began freezing federal funding for climate and ecosystem research, one of the programs hit hard was ours: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers." "The centers have been helping to track invasive species, protect water supplies and make agriculture more sustainable in the face of increasing drought conditions. They’re improving wildfire forecasting, protecting shorelines and saving Alaska salmon, among many other projects."
Source: The Conversation, 12/01/2025
"Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings"
"The scores aimed to predict a property’s risk from a fires, floods and storms, but some in the real estate industry as well as homeowners have called them inaccurate."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2025
"Beekeepers, Farmers and the Fight to Save a Century-Old Research Hub"
UPDATE: As of Dec. 1, NPR reports funding for USDA's Beltsville, Md., research center has been resored. No link available.
"Industry groups and scientists have urged the Trump administration to reconsider its plan to close a renowned Agriculture Department center in Maryland and disperse its work around the country."
Source: NYTimes, 12/01/2025
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