"18 States Sue Over Trump’s Halting of Wind Power Projects"
"The halt threatens jobs and holds back energy production at a time the president has claimed an “energy emergency,” state attorneys general said."
Source: NYTimes, 05/06/2025
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"US Seeks To Weaken Global Development Finance Efforts, UN Document Shows"
"The United States is seeking to weaken a global deal aimed at helping developing countries struggling with the impacts of climate change and other issues, an internal United Nations document seen by Reuters showed."
Source: Reuters, 05/06/2025"Reconciliation: Natural Resources Plows Ahead, Other Bills Stall"
"Lawmakers are preparing for a tense markup in the House Natural Resources Committee on legislation to expand mining and drilling." "One committee is moving ahead swiftly to advance its piece of the Republicans’ sprawling budget package, while other panels with power over energy and environment policy get bogged down."
Source: E&E News, 05/06/2025Rural Communities Were Promised Millions In Disaster Funds. Trump Says No.
"In DePue, Ill., sewage will keep backing up into people's basements when there's heavy rain. In Rising Sun, Md., a mobile home park that has already flooded six times will remain in harm's way. And in Kamiah, Idaho, houses won't get upgrades that would protect them from wildfires"
Source: NPR, 05/06/2025Climate Disaster Survivors Organize Across America, Turning Loss Into Action
"U.S. disaster declarations totaled 108 last year, touching 137 million people. “Climate change is here, it’s impacting people, and it’s going to get more severe,” says one activist."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/06/2025"Republicans Say EVs Don’t Pay Their Fair Share. Here’s The Math."
"Driving an electric vehicle could get more expensive if congressional Republicans have their way." "House Republicans want to impose an annual $250 fee on electric vehicle drivers, who don’t pay the gas tax. Critics say the fee is too high."
Source: Washington Post, 05/06/2025"Trump Budget Would Decimate Climate, Renewables Funding"
"The White House unveiled a preliminary fiscal 2026 budget Friday, outlining a plan for Congress’ Republican majorities to try to slash funding for climate programs, renewable energy, vulnerable communities and other Democratic-aligned priorities." "The preliminary funding proposal outlines cuts the administration wants for myriad clean energy, climate and environment programs."
Source: E&E News, 05/05/2025"Industry Braces For Change As Feds Target Synthetic Food Dyes"
"As synthetic food dyes increasingly come under public and federal scrutiny over health concerns — in part bolstered by the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement — slightly altered flavors in some of Americans’ favorite snacks are just one of the concerns and challenges with switching to dyes made from radishes, cabbages, beets, carrots, butterfly pea flower extract, turmeric, paprika, hibiscus and other natural foods."
Source: The New Lede, 05/05/2025"Trump Has Cut Global Climate Finance. China Is More Than Happy To Step In."
"Even U.S. allies locked in national security disputes with Beijing, like the Philippines, are finding it impossible to resist China’s green energy infrastructure."
Source: Washington Post, 05/05/2025Scientific Societies To Do Climate Assessment After Trump Dismissed Authors
"Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness."
Source: Guardian, 05/05/2025"Out at the E.P.A.: Independent Scientists. In: Approving New Chemicals."
"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would disperse scientists from its independent research office to other divisions where they among other things will be tasked with approving the use of new chemicals."
Source: NYTimes, 05/05/2025Man Accused Of Hacking US Climate Activists Loses UK Extradition Fight
"A judge in the United Kingdom has recommended the extradition of a private investigator to the United States whom the Justice Department accuses of leading a hacking operation that targeted American climate activists."
Source: NPR, 05/05/2025"Trump Buyouts Drive Brain Drain At Federal Agencies"
"Federal workers who once held energy and environment positions protecting national parks and public health or trying to bolster the electric grid to avoid disasters are heading for the exit as President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the government accelerates."
Source: E&E News, 05/05/2025"Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 Gas Turbines, No Air Pollution Permits"
"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma."
Source: E&E News, 05/05/2025"Fate Of California’s Auto Standards Will Come Down To Senate Battle"
"The House of Representatives took a trio of votes this week targeting California’s decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats say Republican leaders would have to defy long-standing congressional order to get the measures passed."
Source: LA Times, 05/02/2025
