"Green Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Report Downplaying Climate Damage"
"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science."
Source: The Hill, 08/13/2025
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"Sierra Club Staff Says Boss’s Ouster Is ‘A Relief’"
"Ben Jealous is officially out as the Sierra Club’s boss after two turbulent years marked by infighting and drama inside the green group."
Source: E&E News, 08/13/2025"'MAHA' Activists Urge Trump To Oppose Limits On Pesticide Regulation"
"President Donald Trump should block the U.S. House from limiting the regulation of pesticides and "forever chemicals" in its environmental appropriations bill or risk losing Republican support, more than 200 activists aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" movement said in a letter to Trump."
Source: Reuters, 08/13/2025Alabama Dredging Project In Mobile Bay Brings Together Unlikely Allies
"A customer is waiting as Patrick Gormandy steers his deep-water trawler — the Captain Sam B — back to the dock after a day of shrimping on Mobile Bay."
Source: NPR, 08/13/2025"Trump’s EPA to Expand Actions to Speed New Chemical Reviews"
"The Trump administration’s EPA has seen success more quickly reviewing companies’ requests to make certain new chemicals and plans to expand its use of strategies that are speeding those decisions, a senior agency official said Monday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/13/2025"Interior Slashes Reviews To Speed Cleanups Of Orphaned Wells"
"Trump administration officials have removed endangered species and historic preservation reviews from federal orphaned well programs, potentially speeding the cleanup of tens of thousands of abandoned sites."
Source: E&E News, 08/13/2025"Explosion At US Steel Plant In Pennsylvania Leaves 2 Dead, 10 Injured"
"An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh left two dead and sent at least 10 to hospitals Monday and heavily damaged the sprawling facility, officials said."
Source: AP, 08/13/2025"Trump’s Push To Mine Deep-Sea Battery Metals Draws Ire From Allies"
"The Trump administration is on a rogue quest to mine critical minerals from the ocean floor — and recent global negotiations over the fate of deep-sea mining reveal just how alone the U.S. is on the issue."
Source: Canary Media, 08/13/2025Juneau Asks Some Residents To Leave Area As Glacial Flooding Nears
"Officials in Alaska’s capital city are asking residents to voluntarily evacuate from parts of the Mendenhall Valley ahead of an expected glacial flood this week."
Source: Alaska Beacon, 08/13/2025"Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer"
"Summer heat in New York City beats down on asphalt and tall buildings, which get hotter, scorching the locals, who can’t stop sweating. Exhaust from trucks and cars hangs in the air and the subway stations trap extreme amounts of heat."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/13/2025NWS Plan to Hire Staff After Layoffs Will Be Too Late for Wildfire Season
"Key California weather forecast offices will remain “criminally understaffed” while new hires get on board, former NWS meteorologists warn."
Source: Capital & Main, 08/12/2025"David Rosner Is Set To Lead FERC. Who Is He?"
"President Donald Trump plans to elevate a Democratic member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to full chair as many continue to raise questions about the agency’s independence." "The centrist Democrat has supported efforts to address power demand by strengthening grid reliability via an “all-of-the-above” philosophy."
Source: E&E News, 08/12/2025"California Supreme Court Hands Victory To Rooftop Solar Panel Owners"
"Justices told a lower court to revisit their decision to uphold cuts of 75 percent to payments for solar panel owners."
Source: CalMatters, 08/12/2025"Trump Cracks Down on Bird Deaths, but Only From Wind Turbines"
"Bald eagles must be protected to the fullest extent of the law from dangerous wind turbines, President Trump’s interior secretary declared this week. But four months ago, President Trump called for gutting the very law that applies, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, calling it a burden on oil and gas producers."
Source: NYTimes, 08/12/2025"Weather Tracker: Europe Braces For Another Heatwave With Highs Of 44C"
"After a period of cooler weather, swaths of central and eastern Europe face another heatwave as hot air over south-western Europe pushes north-west."
Source: Guardian, 08/12/2025
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