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EPA Drops Complaint vs. Major Trump Donor Over Disinfectant in ICE Facility [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities."

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [19], 06/11/2025
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"Document Shows E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Limits on Mercury From Power Plants" [20]

"The agency plans to weaken limits on toxic emissions from power plants while also scrapping restrictions on planet-warming greenhouse gases."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [24], 06/11/2025
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"Trump Says Governors Should Be Able To Handle Disasters Without FEMA" [25]

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies on their own."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [30], 06/11/2025
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"A Killer Within Easy Reach" [31]

"Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones."

Agriculture [32]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
International [34]
Source: NYTimes [35], 06/11/2025
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"Summer Staffing Crunch Hits National Parks After Trump Cuts" [36]

"At Yosemite National Park in California, one of the oldest and most popular U.S. natural preserves, the workforce is stretched so thin this season that nearly all staffers, even scientists, are required to take turns cleaning campground toilets, according to two people familiar with conditions there."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [15]
Waste [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [39], 06/11/2025
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"DOJ Tells Trump He Can Wipe Out National Monuments" [40]

"An opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel says the Antiquities Act of 1906 allows presidents to shrink or eliminate designations by previous presidents."

Biodiversity [41]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
Policy [42]
Water & Oceans [29]
Wildlife [43]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [44], 06/11/2025
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"How The ‘Evil Twin’ Of The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Our Oceans" [45]

"In seas around the world pH levels are falling – and scientists are increasingly frustrated that the problem is not being taken seriously enough"

Biodiversity [41]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Studies [46]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Natural Resources [37]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
International [34]
Source: Guardian [48], 06/11/2025
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"Toxic Truth? The Cookware Craze Redefining ‘Ceramic’ And ‘Nontoxic’" [49]

"The cookware industry has entered a golden age, largely driven by the wild success of a new generation of “nontoxic” and “nonstick” designer ceramic pans backed by stars including Selena Gomez, Stanley Tucci and Oprah Winfrey. But the pans are probably not “nontoxic” some independent testing and research suggests."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [33]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [50]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [51], 06/11/2025
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"Trump’s Second Term Is Creating ‘A Limbo Moment’ For US Battery Recyclers" [52]

"The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
Technology [50]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [53], 06/11/2025
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"The River That Came Back To Life: A Journey Down The Reborn Klamath" [54]

"Less than a year after four dams were removed from the river, life has blossomed along its banks, presenting new challenges and joys of recovery"

Fish & Fisheries [47]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
Transportation [55]
Water & Oceans [29]
Wildlife [43]
Public [17]
California [56]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Source: Guardian [58], 06/11/2025
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"RFK Jr. Purges Every Vaccine Adviser On CDC Panel; Will Pick Replacements" [59]

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he was removing the entire membership of the influential vaccine advisory panel that makes immunization recommendations for the United States, an unprecedented move by Kennedy and escalation of his overhaul of federal vaccination policy."

Activism [60]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Health [61]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [62]
Technology [50]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [63], 06/10/2025
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"Journalists Come Under Fire Covering L.A. Protests" [64]

"Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism."

Journalism & Media [65]
Military [66]
Technology [50]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [56]
Source: Washington Post [67], 06/10/2025
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"Trump Cuts Would Scrap USGS Biological Research Arm" [68]

"The Trump administration wants to unplug a high-powered U.S. Geological Survey research program whose scientists have helped protect wildlife, manage forests, thwart pests and illuminate nature for over three decades."

Biodiversity [41]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [46]
Natural Resources [37]
Science [62]
Wildlife [43]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [69], 06/10/2025
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UN Ocean Summit Opens In France As U.S. Government Scientists Stay Away [70]

"World leaders, scientists and officials gathered on Monday to open the third United Nations Ocean Conference and launch a global appeal to save the world's oceans, which scientists say are in bad health." "Glaringly absent are U.S. scientific agencies like NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their scientists weren't allowed to attend the summit, say organizers."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [46]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [15]
Science [62]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [34]
Source: NPR [71], 06/10/2025
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Homeless Are The Group Most Vulnerable To Heat-Related Illnesses By Far [72]

"Last summer, Taylor Weckstein was driving around rural New Mexico in a van delivering medical care to the homeless in the sweltering heat. The Harvard Medical School graduate came across people with severe dehydration, kidney disease and third-degree burns from being seared by the pavement, she recalled."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Studies [46]
Health [61]
People & Population [15]
Science [62]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [73], 06/10/2025
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