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Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land [9]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [18], 09/11/2025
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Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill [19]

"A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: WIRED [25], 09/11/2025
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Defense Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On Pentagon’s Use Of Toxic PFAS [26]

"Provisions in the House and Senate annual Defense authorization bills reduce restrictions on the Pentagon’s use of “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [29]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [30], 09/11/2025
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Study Links Big Heat Waves To Pollution From Major Fossil Fuel Producers [31]

"Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [23]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
International [34]
Source: AP [35], 09/11/2025
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Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton That Fuels The Food Web: Study [36]

"For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [20]
Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [16]
International [34]
Source: AP [38], 09/11/2025
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US Bans on some Fish Imports Could Help Save Marine Mammals Worldwide: Experts [39]

"The Trump administration set strict import bans on fisheries in more than 40 nations that do not meet standards for conserving marine mammals like whales and dolphins."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 09/11/2025
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Many Countries Are Saying No To ‘Unthinkable’ Room Costs For Climate Talks [42]

"Brazil brought the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference to the Amazon. Then the price frenzy began." "The idea had seemed symbolically fitting at first — a global climate summit set on the edge of the threatened Amazon rainforest."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Justice [28]
Infrastructure [43]
People & Population [33]
Public [16]
International [34]
South America [44]
Source: Washington Post [45], 09/11/2025
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"Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says" [46]

"A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work."

Climate Change [20]
Journalism & Media [47]
Science [48]
Technology [49]
Public [16]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 09/11/2025
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MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health [51]

"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."

Agriculture [52]
Chemicals [27]
Consumer [53]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Food [54]
Health [55]
People & Population [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [56], 09/11/2025
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"California’s First Solar-Covered Canal Is Now Fully Online" [57]

"A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region." "The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [43]
Technology [49]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [58]
Source: Canary Media [59], 09/11/2025
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"AP Finds Major Disaster Declarations Are Taking Longer Under Trump" [60]

"Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [61]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [62], 09/10/2025
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"Budget Shortfalls Put Mass Transit At Risk Across US" [63]

"Transit agencies have been warning for years that the twin problems of diminished ridership and rising costs could send entire public transportation systems into a tailspin. Now, some worry that day has come."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [53]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [43]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [64]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [65], 09/10/2025
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"Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe" [66]

"U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is in Europe this week to lobby for oil and gas, and some European policy experts say his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [61]
Pollution [24]
Technology [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 09/10/2025
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Former Trump Interior Secretary Rakes In Corporate Cash At New Lobbying Firm [68]

"David Bernhardt's new firm is making big bucks lobbying for major energy corporations, agricultural giants and more."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [61]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [69], 09/10/2025
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Online Disaster Planning Tool May Go Dark On Wednesday, FEMA Site Says [70]

"An online disaster management tool that U.S. emergency managers use to communicate may no longer be supported Wednesday, according to a notice posted and later deleted from a federal government website."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [61]
Journalism & Media [47]
People & Population [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Reuters [71], 09/10/2025
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