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Trump Inks Order To Advance Halted Alaskan Ambler Mining Road [9]

"President Donald Trump on Monday moved to reverse a Biden-era decision that blocked a mining road in Alaska, which faces fierce opposition among tribes and environmental groups."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 10/08/2025
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"Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard" [20]

"New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Military [24]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 10/08/2025
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"The Next Phase Of Trump’s Fight Against Solar Energy Has Begun" [28]

"Trump officials are using trade measures and permit delays in a campaign to undercut the solar industry."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [32], 10/08/2025
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Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking [33]

"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."

Chemicals [34]
Consumer [35]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [30]
Waste [37]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 10/08/2025
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"Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant" [40]

"Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun County."

Activism [41]
Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 10/08/2025
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Groups Sue EPA Over Canceled $7 Billion Solar Program To Help Poor People [44]

"Several groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans."

Activism [41]
Climate Change [21]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Technology [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [45], 10/08/2025
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"As Oil Glut Fears Mount, OPEC+ Restrains Output Rises For Now" [46]

"OPEC+ oil-producing countries opted for only a modest rise to November output due to concerns about a potential global glut, sources within the group said, as non-OPEC supply also rises while fuel demand growth slows."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Public [16]
International [47]
Source: Reuters [48], 10/08/2025
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EPA Drops Planned Delay in Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants [49]

"Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 10/08/2025
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Solar And Wind Power Grew Faster Than Electricity Demand This Year: Report [51]

"Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [35]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [16]
International [47]
Source: AP [52], 10/08/2025
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Company Bids Less Than A Penny Per Ton In Biggest US Coal Sale In Decade [53]

"A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s diminished value even as President Donald Trump pushes to mine and burn more of the heavily polluting fuel."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [35]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Pollution [30]
Technology [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [47]
Source: AP [54], 10/08/2025
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"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report" [55]

"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."

Agriculture [56]
Chemicals [34]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [30]
Science [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [58], 10/07/2025
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"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires" [59]

"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [60]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [30]
Science [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 10/07/2025
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Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem [62]

"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."

Agriculture [56]
Chemicals [34]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Source: Allegheny Front [63], 10/07/2025
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"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?" [64]

"Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Studies [65]
Infrastructure [12]
People & Population [25]
Planning & Growth [66]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [16]
International [47]
Source: Euronews [67], 10/07/2025
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California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’ [68]

"For most of her life, Thea Maria Carlson did not like fire. Even though she had studied earth systems at Stanford University and knew, intellectually, that burning had an environmental purpose in her home of California, she still wanted nothing to do with it."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Forests [69]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [25]
Public [16]
California [70]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [71], 10/07/2025
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