"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less."
"Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn."
Source: Capital & Main, 09/12/2025
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"Johnson Backs Virginia Wind Project In Break With Trump"
"House Speaker Mike Johnson is going to bat for an offshore wind project located off Virginia Beach at a time when the Trump administration has halted the construction of similar projects and the president himself has warned that support for the industry could cost politicians their careers."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025"House Republicans Add To Support For Maintaining NIH Budget In 2026"
"Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A bill released today would give the agency a base budget of about $47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, essentially the same level as this year."
Source: Science, 09/12/2025"Building Toward Disaster: Growth Collides With Rising Seas In Charleston"
"A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be forced to move?"
Source: Floodlight, 09/12/2025"Public Lands Were Made Free to All"
"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."
Source: Sierra, 09/12/2025Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil
"California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders."
Source: CalMatters, 09/12/2025"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says"
"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."
Source: AP, 09/11/2025Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill
"A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade."
Source: WIRED, 09/11/2025Defense Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On Pentagon’s Use Of Toxic PFAS
"Provisions in the House and Senate annual Defense authorization bills reduce restrictions on the Pentagon’s use of “forever chemicals.”
Source: The Hill, 09/11/2025US Bans on some Fish Imports Could Help Save Marine Mammals Worldwide: Experts
"The Trump administration set strict import bans on fisheries in more than 40 nations that do not meet standards for conserving marine mammals like whales and dolphins."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/11/2025MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health
"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."
Source: The New Lede, 09/11/2025"AP Finds Major Disaster Declarations Are Taking Longer Under Trump"
"Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found."
Source: AP, 09/10/2025"Budget Shortfalls Put Mass Transit At Risk Across US"
"Transit agencies have been warning for years that the twin problems of diminished ridership and rising costs could send entire public transportation systems into a tailspin. Now, some worry that day has come."
Source: E&E News, 09/10/2025"Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe"
"U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is in Europe this week to lobby for oil and gas, and some European policy experts say his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025
