Climate Disasters Are Driving a School Crisis. Black Kids Are Hit Hardest
"Black students are losing classrooms, homes, and support systems after climate events."
Source: Capital B, 04/02/2025
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1,900+ Scientists Write Letter In ‘SOS’ Over Trump’s Attacks On Science
"More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science."
Source: Guardian, 04/02/2025"Big Banks Predict Catastrophic Warming, With Profit Potential"
"Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show."
Source: E&E News, 04/02/2025"The Newest Hurdle For Offshore Wind: Trump’s EPA"
"The agency, led by Trump loyalist Lee Zeldin, just revoked one offshore wind farm’s permit. Now anti-wind groups are trying to leverage a Republican-run EPA."
Source: Canary Media, 04/02/2025"How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt"
"A faith-based Indiana group and heating contractors in Maine are among hundreds of businesses and organizations stymied by EPA’s attempt to claw back $20 billion of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/02/2025"Why Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Species Are At Risk"
"President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges. Amid the staffing whiplash — chaotic firings and reinstatement of rangers, scientists, and other civil servants — America’s most vulnerable plant and animal species face new peril in their struggle to survive."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 04/02/2025"EPA Chief Closing Environmental Museum"
"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Monday that he is shutting down a museum in the EPA’s headquarters in an effort to cut costs."
Source: The Hill, 04/02/2025"Trump Halts Historic Orphaned Well-Plugging Program"
"The billions of dollars approved by Congress to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells have been frozen as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government spending, creating concerns that the cleanup will be halted just as it’s getting started."
Source: High Country News, 04/01/2025US Could See Return Of Acid Rain Due To Trump’s Rollbacks, Says Scientist
"The US could be plunged back into an era of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the Donald Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, the scientist who discovered the existence of acid rain in North America has warned."
Source: Guardian, 04/01/2025"Radioactive Shadow Workers"
"The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret"
Source: Sierra, 04/01/2025CA Suspends Environmental Laws To Speed Rebuilding Of Utilities After Fires
"In a continued effort to expedite rebuilding after Los Angeles' devastating firestorms, Gov. Gavin Newsom this week suspended California environmental laws for utility providers working to reinstall key infrastructure."
Source: LA Times, 04/01/2025"Exclusive: Global Ad Giant WPP Shutters Sustainability-Focused Agency"
"Global ad giant WPP has closed AKQA Bloom, a Miami-based communications agency specialising in sustainability campaigns, according to an email to staff obtained by DeSmog, and merged its operations with parent agency AKQA."
Source: DeSmog, 04/01/2025"‘Forever Chemicals’ From Nearby Factory Found In Dust Of NC Homes: Study"
"Researchers have identified “forever chemicals” in household dust nearby a North Carolina factory — indicating that dust may be an additional source of exposure to these compounds."
Source: The Hill, 04/01/2025"Fumed Episode 4: Locked and Loaded"
"This season, two stubborn Texans try to salvage what’s left of their working-class community. That’s a problem, though, because they live in East Harris County, where the petrochemical industry calls the shots — and where pushing back can be dangerous."
"Set in Channelview, Texas, in the heart of the nation's petrochemical industry, Fumed follows Carolyn Stone and Greg Moss as they risk everything to fight for their community’s future."
Source: Public Health Watch, 04/01/2025Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Slams Climate Action as ‘Religion’
"When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a plan to roll back environmental protections, American faith leaders and scholars reacted with confusion, sadness and anger." "Jewish and Christian faith leaders responded to Lee Zeldin’s comments with “righteous anger” and called for policies that support a more just, livable world."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/01/2025
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