"As Floods Keep Coming, This Small City Can’t Afford To Let People Leave"
"Floodplain buyouts can reduce the financial toll of future disasters. But some small towns losing property and people are now saying no."
Source: Washington Post, 06/17/2025
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Florida Removes Record Haul Of Invasive Pythons In Control Effort
"It was a milestone moment in Florida’s 25-year war on invasive Burmese pythons: an eye-popping announcement that biologists had removed 20 tons of the slithering invaders from waters in and around the Everglades in little more than a decade, as well as shattering their previous record for a single-season haul."
Source: Guardian, 06/17/2025"National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’"
"The Interior Department plans to remove or cover up all “inappropriate content” at national parks and sites by Sept. 17 and is asking the park visitors to report any “negative” information about past or living Americans, according to internal documents."
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2025"Trump Topples $1 Billion Columbia River Settlement Deal"
"President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the federal government must pull out of a settlement agreement that had halted the long-running legal battle over 14 dams in the Pacific Northwest, reopening a fight over the future of fish populations in the Columbia River Basin."
Source: E&E News, 06/16/2025Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out Agency
"The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster command center, who coordinates the national response to earthquakes, floods and other disasters, has submitted his resignation, according to two people familiar with the matter." "His resignation came after other senior staff members have left and a day after President Trump said he would wind down the federal agency by November."
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2025Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card Amid Persistent Challenges
"The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution limit restoration efforts."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/16/2025Trump Cuts EPA Grants to Address Health Risks on Hopi and Navajo Reservations
"Red Feather, which works to improve housing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, is just one of hundreds of groups that have had grants meant to help disadvantaged communities terminated by the Trump administration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/16/2025UN Ocean Summit Ends With Boost For Marine Conservation, Not Climate
"The UN Ocean Conference in the southern French city of Nice concludes this Friday with countries taking steps towards marine protection and declaring a battle over deep sea-mining, but slammed for leaving fossil fuels off the agenda – the key driver of ocean warming. Nations hoping for new financial pledges to help with battling rising sea levels and overfishing were also left disappointed."
Source: AFP, 06/16/2025Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff
"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."
Source: NPR, 06/16/2025"Hundreds Of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated"
"More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency received notices Wednesday that they are being reinstated, according to a union representing the workers."
Source: AP, 06/16/2025Researcher Resigns Citing Tulane Censorship On Pollution Racial Disparity
"A Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."
Source: AP, 06/16/2025"On Ireland’s Peat Bogs: Climate Action Clashes With Tradition – In Pictures"
"Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations."
Source: Reuters, 06/16/2025"Utah Republican Proposes Sale Of More Than 2 Million Acres Of US Lands"
"More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House."
Source: AP, 06/13/2025"California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air"
"The state’s latest lawsuit charges the administration with illegally targeting its authority to set tougher vehicle-emission standards. Ten attorneys general from states that follow those rules joined the suit."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2025"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035"
"In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2025
