Trump Admin Dashes Hopes Of Anti-Pollution Plan For JD Vance’s Home Town
"The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold"
Source: Guardian, 07/21/2025
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"Can Grizzly Bears Survive Without The Endangered Species Act?"
"Decades of work that has steered grizzly bears away from extinction in the Greater Yellowstone region could be lost if House Republicans succeed in weakening the powerful law that protects them. Progress by the iconic bruins under the Endangered Species Act is not yet enough to keep them safe, in the eyes of environmental advocates."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 07/21/2025"Trump Exempts Scores of Plants From Biden’s Pollution Rules"
"President Donald Trump is allowing chemical makers, coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/18/2025"E.P.A. Delays Required Cleanups of Toxic Coal Ash Landfills"
"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would give utility companies an additional year to begin cleaning up contamination from toxic coal ash landfills across the country."
Source: NYTimes, 07/18/2025Interior to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review
"The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would apply new layers of political review to wind and solar projects, potentially creating hurdles for renewable energy developments across the country."
Source: NYTimes, 07/18/2025Trump’s Budget Would End 7 Decades of Mauna Loa Greenhouse Gas Measurements
"Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere."
Source: NYTimes, 07/18/2025EPA Plows Ahead With Reorganization, Giving Employees Less Choice
"EPA has resumed its efforts to reorganize the agency after the Supreme Court earlier this month lifted a lower court’s injunction that stalled the Trump administration’s restructuring efforts. But EPA employees will have less say in where they end up under the restructuring because of the time lost while the injunction was in place, an EPA official told colleagues in an internal email obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 07/18/2025"How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Could Collapse The US Food Industry"
"The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar"
Source: Guardian, 07/18/2025U.S. Suffers 15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters During 1st Half Of 2025
"The U.S. suffered 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the first half of 2025, said insurance broker Gallagher Re in its latest quarterly report issued July 16. The average number of January-June inflation-adjusted billion-dollar disasters over the previous 10 years in the U.S. was 15; the record was 23, set in 2024. The Gallagher Re quarterly reports help fill a void left by the elimination of NOAA’s program to track billion-dollar weather disasters, which was terminated this year."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 07/18/2025"Interior Secretary Says Alcatraz Will Be Renovated For Criminals"
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured the halls of Alcatraz prison at Golden Gate National Recreation Area on Thursday, marveling over some of the names of "the rock's" most notorious prisoners to announce that the crumbling facility would be renovated to house "the most dangerous criminals and illegals."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 07/18/2025Senate Passes $9 Billion In Spending Cuts To Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid
"The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep reductions to public broadcasting and foreign aid, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators."
Source: AP, 07/17/202520 States Sue FEMA For Canceling Grant Program To Prevent Natural Disasters
"Twenty Democratic-led states filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running grant program that helps communities guard against damage from natural disasters."
Source: AP, 07/17/2025Trump Hails $90 Billion Push to Make Pennsylvania A Gas-Fired AI Hub
"Flanked by titans of the fossil fuel, tech and finance industries, President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed $90 billion in private investments aimed at building a massive artificial intelligence hub around Pennsylvania’s natural gas resources."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/17/2025"OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life"
"The Trump administration slashed fines for safety violations by small businesses and other employers and plans to reduce already rare workplace inspections. Experts say that will lead to more worker injuries, illnesses and deaths."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/17/2025"Just 9 Percent Think FEMA Should Be Eliminated: Survey"
"Very few Americans say in a new poll that it’s a good idea to scrap the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) entirely, a position President Trump has embraced in recent months."
Source: The Hill, 07/17/2025
