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"RFK Jr. Purges Every Vaccine Adviser On CDC Panel; Will Pick Replacements" [9]

"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."

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Source: Washington Post [20], 06/10/2025
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"Journalists Come Under Fire Covering L.A. Protests" [21]

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

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National (U.S.) [19]
California [24]
Source: Washington Post [25], 06/10/2025
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"Trump Cuts Would Scrap USGS Biological Research Arm" [26]

"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."

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Source: E&E News [31], 06/10/2025
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UN Ocean Summit Opens In France As U.S. Government Scientists Stay Away [32]

"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 [33]
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Source: NPR [39], 06/10/2025
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Homeless Are The Group Most Vulnerable To Heat-Related Illnesses By Far [40]

"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."

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Source: Washington Post [42], 06/10/2025
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In Highly Polluted Ala. Black Community, Trump Axes Funds for Air Monitoring [43]

"Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact."

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 06/10/2025
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"Rockaway NY Was Fighting Coastal Erosion –- Then EPA Cancelled Funding [47]

"Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s EPA."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [33]
Infrastructure [48]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [36]
Planning & Growth [49]
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Wildlife [30]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 06/10/2025
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"A Proposal For A Massachusetts Wood-Burning Plant Is Back From The Dead" [52]

"A plan to build a wood-burning power plant in a Massachusetts city once dubbed the asthma capital of the country could be springing back to life years after state and local officials struck it down — and opponents are ready to renew their fight against what many call a “zombie project.”"

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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: Canary Media [55], 06/10/2025
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"Trump’s Cuts To National Park Service Rankle Republicans" [56]

"President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans."

Biodiversity [27]
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Forests [54]
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Source: The Hill [57], 06/10/2025
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"See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe" [58]

"Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave."

Climate Change [33]
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Fish & Fisheries [34]
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Source: NYTimes [59], 06/10/2025
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"Dying Before Their Day In Court – Syngenta Paraquat Litigation Drags On" [60]

"In the nationwide legal battle between pesticide maker Syngenta and thousands of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease that they blame on exposure to paraquat weed killer, plaintiffs are dying faster than they can get to trial, according to a court filing made this week by lawyers frustrated by repeated delays in the cases."

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Source: The New Lede [63], 06/09/2025
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Big Bill Hands Public Land Near Minnesota Wilderness To Foreign Mining Company [64]

"A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company."

Biodiversity [27]
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Canada [65]
Source: Public Domain [66], 06/09/2025
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"What Is Bottom Trawling And How Does It Harm Oceans?" [67]

"Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
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Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [36]
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Water & Oceans [37]
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International [38]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [68], 06/09/2025
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"Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine" [69]

"The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and putting into action a key element of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s coal industry."

Climate Change [33]
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Source: NYTimes [72], 06/09/2025
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"Electricity Prices Are Surging. The GOP Megabill Could Push Them Higher." [73]

"The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power. And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say."

Climate Change [33]
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Energy & Fuel [71]
Environmental Politics [13]
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Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [74], 06/09/2025
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