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DOGE Staffers Enter NOAA Headquarters And Incite Reports Of Cuts And Threats [9]

"Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Government [13]
Science [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [18], 02/06/2025
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"Republicans Move To Repeal Lead Limits Imposed By Biden-Era Rules" [19]

"Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are attempting to repeal the Biden administration’s groundbreaking rules that require all the country’s lead pipes to be replaced over the next 13 years and lower the limit on lead in water."

Chemicals [20]
Consumer [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [27], 02/06/2025
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"New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration" [28]

"New research by an international team of climate scientists documents a surge of global warming during the past 15 years that risks shutting down a key ocean current by 2050."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 02/06/2025
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Burgum Directive Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels [33]

"National monuments, migratory birds, endangered and threatened species: Some of the nation’s most vulnerable natural resources are in jeopardy after Doug Burgum issued—on his first full day as secretary of the Department of the Interior—a seven-page directive weakening their protections to further fossil fuel development."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [15]
Wildlife [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 02/06/2025
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"Exxon Is Quietly Planning A New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant In Texas" [37]

"Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution."

Chemicals [20]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [26]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [38]
Source: Grist [39], 02/06/2025
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"Utilities To Spend Billions To Power AI. Are They Jumping The Gun?" [40]

"A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [24]
Pollution [26]
Technology [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [31]
Source: Floodlight [42], 02/06/2025
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"Trump’s FEMA Chief Assailed The Agency With Untruths" [43]

"Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina."

Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [46], 02/06/2025
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"Here’s Every Biden-Era Energy Loan — Now All Under Threat From Trump" [47]

"The DOE Loan Programs Office gave out $107 billion to 53 projects, from EV factories to a nuclear-plant restart. But the fate of the loans is unclear under Trump."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Canary Media [49], 02/06/2025
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"Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu" [50]

"Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday."

Agriculture [51]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [22]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [52], 02/06/2025
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"Big Oil and Gas Goes Long With Super Bowl Greenwashing" [53]

"As New Orleans readies to host Super Bowl LIX this Sunday, a volunteer ambassador program has been working to help welcome the hundreds of thousands of football fans streaming into the Big Easy. Who is sponsoring that program? Chevron, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers and a top climate polluter."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Journalism & Media [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Sierra [54], 02/06/2025
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"Trump Picks Scientist Involved In ‘Sharpiegate’ Scandal To Lead NOAA" [55]

"President Donald Trump has named Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who was found to have violated scientific integrity policies during the “Sharpiegate” scandal of the first Trump administration, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [56], 02/05/2025
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"Burgum’s First Order Of Business: Drilling, Public Lands And The ESA" [57]

"The Interior secretary signed orders to increase energy production, review Biden public lands efforts and slash regulations."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [30]
Wildlife [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [58], 02/05/2025
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"E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More" [59]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is demoting career employees who oversee scientific research, the enforcement of pollution laws, hazardous waste cleanup and the agency’s human resources department and will replace them with political appointees, according to two people familiar with the approach."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [60], 02/05/2025
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"Neo-Nazi Group Leader Convicted Of Planning To Attack Maryland Power Grid" [61]

"Brandon Russell, the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group, was convicted Monday of conspiring to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid."

Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [62]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Source: The Hill [64], 02/05/2025
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"Mountain Valley Pipeline Files Application To Build Southgate Extension" [65]

"Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC filed with regulators Monday official requests to build its revised Southgate extension project from Southwest Virginia into North Carolina." "The company’s proposal to build more than 30 miles of natural gas pipeline has worried environmental advocates, who believe it could harm nearby residents."

Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [66]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 02/05/2025
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