"Boundary Waters Canoe Area Faces Uncertain Future Amid Budget Cuts"
"The Trump administration is also looking to revive mining in the popular wilderness area"
Source: Sierra, 08/18/2025
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Republicans Who Backed Trump’s Big Bill Have Accepted Over $105M From Big Oil
"The Republican lawmakers who voted for Donald Trump’s anti-environment tax and spending bill have accepted more than $105m in political donations from the fossil fuel industry, a new analysis has found, raising concerns about their relationship with big oil."
Source: Guardian, 08/18/2025"Plastics Treaty Talks Collapse Without A Deal After “Chaotic” Negotiations"
"UN talks on creating a global pact to stem plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva with no agreement or clear way forward after chaotic nights of negotiations failed to break a deadlock over whether to include measures aimed at curbing runaway plastic production."
Source: Climate Home News, 08/15/2025"Her Dogs Kept Dying, And She Got Cancer. Then They Tested Her Water."
"Debbie Blankenship’s wheelchair carved perfect lines in the grass as she rolled into her backyard garden, passing a wooden arch filled with small grapes, a bush with plump blueberries and yellow crates filled with sprouting potatoes. She stopped at a dirt patch with a burial marker for her beagle — the latest of her dogs to die of cancer."
Source: Washington Post, 08/15/2025"In Appalachia, Fracking Is Not The Job Creator The Industry Claims"
"As the Trump administration aims to bolster fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy expansion, new research shows the oil and gas sector has so far failed to become a major jobs creator for heavily fracked areas of northern Appalachia."
Source: Canary Media, 08/15/2025"Forcing Dirty Power Plants To Stay Open Would Cost Americans Billions"
"The Trump admin’s scheme to keep old fossil-fuel plants running could saddle utility customers with nearly $6 billion a year in unnecessary costs, a report finds."
Source: Canary Media, 08/15/2025Trump FTC Blocks California’s Emissions Agreement With Truck Manufacturers
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has declared that an emissions agreement between California and four major truck makers is “unenforceable” — paving the way for noncompliance with the Golden State’s pollution rules, which are stricter than federal standards."
Source: The Hill, 08/15/2025Duffy Says NASA Will Dump Climate Science, Focus Only On Space Exploration
"Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration."
Source: The Hill, 08/15/2025"Forest Experts Warn Spending Bill Sets Up US Forest Service to Fail"
"The recently passed spending bill sets logging targets that federal officials don’t have the capacity to meet" "The new law sets aggressive timber harvesting goals and slashes spending for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Environmental advocates and industry insiders say those goals are contradictory and unworkable."
Source: Sierra, 08/15/2025Environmental Justice Test for Trump EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death
"EPA expressed alarm at contamination in a creek near a predominantly Black neighborhood. Then the agency eliminated its civil-rights office and has taken no further action."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/15/2025"White House Delays Public Release Of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Strategy"
"Industry will have to wait longer for the report, which is expected to give the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases."
Source: Politico, 08/14/2025"California’s Clean-Air Program for Polluted Communities Faces Crossroads"
"On Aug. 6, 2012, a fire broke out at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Liquid hydrocarbon spewed from a leaky pipe in the crude unit and ignited, sending smoke plumes into the air that could be seen across the Bay. Nearby residents struggled to breathe and reported headaches, chest pains and itchy eyes. More than 15,000 people sought medical help."
Source: KQED, 08/14/2025Wisc. Communities Affected By PFAS Await Action On $125 Million Trust Fund
"Around the state, several communities with "forever chemical" contamination have been counting on the Legislature passing a bill to help them, but as the summer stretches on, many advocates are worried that lawmakers will fail to pass yet another proposal."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 08/14/2025New Draft Of Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Wouldn’t Limit Production
"Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn’t limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products."
Source: AP, 08/14/2025Florida’s First Black Bear Hunt In A Decade Approved Despite Opposition
"The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade will take place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials despite strong opposition to the eventual use of dogs and targeting the animals in baited locations."
Source: AP, 08/14/2025
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