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Trump Admin Voids Permit for New Jersey Wind Farm Trump Opposes [9]

"A critical permit for an offshore wind farm planned near the New Jersey Shore has been invalidated by an administrative appeals board, seven weeks after President Donald Trump declared he hoped the project was “dead and gone.”

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [17]
Source: Bloomberg [18], 03/17/2025
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"Decision To Axe Advisory Groups Could Spell Trouble For US Food Safety" [19]

"A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, critics fear, particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [26], 03/17/2025
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"Farmers Feeling the Pain After Conservation Funding Frozen" [27]

"The Trump administration, with DOGE, is pulling the rug from under growers and producers across the country"

Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Sierra [31], 03/17/2025
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"Confusion Clouds The Fate Of Two New California Monuments" [32]

"The Trump administration touched off consternation and confusion over the weekend, issuing, and then apparently rolling back, an announcement implying the president had rescinded his predecessor’s order creating two popular national monuments in California."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [33]
Source: LA Times [34], 03/17/2025
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"The Great British Sewage Dump" [35]

"Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy"

Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [36]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Europe [40]
Source: Reuters [41], 03/17/2025
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"White House Abruptly Pulls Dave Weldon’s CDC Nomination Before Hearing" [42]

"The former congressman who drew scrutiny for anti-vaccine views did not appear to have the votes for confirmation amid a measles outbreak, according to people familiar."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [43]
Food [24]
Government [36]
Health [44]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [39]
Science [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [45], 03/14/2025
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"EPA To Steer Environmental Enforcement Officers Away From Energy Companies" [46]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies."

Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [47], 03/14/2025
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"EPA to Redefine Protected Wetlands, Reversing Biden Rule" [48]

"The EPA will redefine waters of the US, or WOTUS, to comply with the US Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Sackett v. EPA, which lifted Clean Water Act jurisdiction on many wetlands, Administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [50]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [51], 03/14/2025
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"U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva Dies From Cancer" [52]

"U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who was a fierce champion for national parks, passed away Thursday from complications related to cancer treatments. He was 77."

Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [53]
Source: National Parks Traveler [54], 03/14/2025
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"Criminal Targeting Of Environmental Groups ‘Scary,’ Advocates Say" [55]

"Groups now worry about FBI probes as they struggle to rebound from federal spending freeze enacted under President Donald Trump"

Activism [56]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [57]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Floodlight [58], 03/14/2025
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Ducks, Once A Conservation Bright Spot, Now Declining In US: New Report [59]

"At least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years, according to a new report published Thursday. Among the birds showing the steepest declines are Allen’s hummingbirds, Florida scrub jays, golden-cheeked warblers, tricolored blackbirds and yellow-billed magpies."

Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [43]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [50]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [60], 03/14/2025
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"Trump Administration Plans To Give Dirty US Coal Plants A Reprieve On Soot" [61]

"President Donald Trump's administration intends to overturn pollution rules aimed at reducing soot and greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. coal-fired power plants in a move intended to help keep some of the nation's dirtiest plants operational."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [62], 03/14/2025
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"Destruction Of Ukraine Dam Triggered Toxic ‘Time Bomb,’ Researchers Say" [63]

"The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam in June 2023 exposed lake bed sediment containing more than 90,000 tons of dangerous heavy metals, setting off what researchers say is a toxic “time bomb.”"

Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [21]
Disasters [64]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Infrastructure [37]
Military [65]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Europe [40]
Source: Washington Post [66], 03/14/2025
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Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Rights Strikes at Oil Industry [67]

"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands."

Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [57]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [39]
Public [15]
South America [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 03/14/2025
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"12 Books That Demonstrate Women’s Leadership On Climate" [70]

"From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action." "The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder."

Activism [56]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [57]
Journalism & Media [71]
People & Population [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [72]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [73], 03/14/2025
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