"Will Science Journalism Funders Step Up or Retreat?"
"Amid Trump-era funding turmoil, foundations are finding themselves pulled in many directions to fill in the gaps."
Source: Undark, 10/17/2025
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Judge Rules Permit For Cameron Parish LNG Terminal Ignored Climate Impacts
"A Cameron Parish judge has ruled that state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution when they issued a permit for a liquified gas export terminal, which has halted construction on the facility."
Source: Louisiana Illuminator, 10/17/2025Philadelphia Takes On Companies Over Deceptive Plastic Recycling Claims
"When Philadelphia filed a lawsuit last month alleging two prominent companies were engaged in a “coordinated campaign of deception” regarding the recyclability of their plastic film products, the city joined a growing group of state and local governments hoping litigation can help stem a rising tide of plastic waste."
Source: The New Lede, 10/17/2025"U.S. Mayors To Take Lead At COP30 In Place Of Trump"
"As the Trump administration halts climate programmes, local leaders plan to participate in Brazil's COP30 to reaffirm their commitment."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/17/2025"Trump Admin Approves $1.6B In Financing For AEP Transmission Project"
"In a rare example of continuity on energy policy, Trump’s DOE finalized the Biden-era loan to upgrade 5,000 miles of power lines across the Midwest."
Source: Canary Media, 10/17/2025"Ohio To Fast-Track Energy At Former Coal Mines And Brownfields"
"A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields."
Source: Canary Media, 10/17/2025"A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone"
"Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January."
Source: WIRED, 10/16/2025"Court Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Layoff Plans"
"A federal judge in California has temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the government shutdown as the basis for layoffs at EPA, the Energy Department and other agencies."
Source: E&E News, 10/16/2025"Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant"
"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."
Source: NYTimes, 10/16/2025"Texas County Sues Trump Admin Over Canceled Solar Grants"
"A Texas county is suing EPA over the agency’s cancellation of nearly $250 million in solar energy grants." "The lawsuit says the Trump administration unlawfully revoked funding for low-income communities to access clean, affordable energy."
Source: E&E News, 10/16/2025"Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Forever Chemicals In Cookware"
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of “forever chemicals” in cookware and other products in California."
Source: The Hill, 10/16/2025Shutdown Will Deepen Hunger In America As Trump Ag Dept. Stops Tracking It
"Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout."
Source: Grist, 10/15/2025"Nations Meet To Consider Regulations To Drive A Green Transition In Shipping"
"The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions."
Source: AP, 10/15/2025"Saudi-Owned Corporate Farms Are Draining Arizona’s Desert Dry"
"Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells."
Source: Sentient, 10/15/2025AZ Hopi Planned To Connect 600 Homes To Electricity, But Funding Was Cut
"For as long as 55-year-old Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma has been alive, high-voltage power lines have cut across Hopi lands in northeast Arizona, carrying vast amounts of power long distances throughout the Southwest. But residents of the Hopi Reservation have never been connected to that grid."
Source: NPR, 10/15/2025
