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In First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment [9]

"One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 05/01/2025
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"Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions" [20]

"Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [21]
Government [22]
Journalism & Media [23]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [25], 05/01/2025
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House Votes To Overturn California Clean Truck Rules – Defying GAO [26]

"The House on Wednesday voted to axe California’s clean truck rules — defying Congress’s own internal watchdog in doing so."

Air [27]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [31]
Source: The Hill [32], 05/01/2025
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"Republicans Use Reconciliation To Target Agency Rulemaking" [33]

"House Republicans are looking to use their massive party-line bill to strip federal agencies of their power to unilaterally approve all major rules."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [34], 05/01/2025
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"Trump Administration Kicks Off Rewrite Of LNG Safety Rules" [35]

"Current regulations date back to the Carter administration, and a planned overhaul could help fast-track gas export projects."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [38], 05/01/2025
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"UN Chemicals Negotiators To Debate Potential Global Chlorpyrifos Ban" [39]

"The biennial Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions will consider banning the controversial pesticide and two other toxic compounds"

Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [41]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
International [42]
Source: C&EN [43], 05/01/2025
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Ohio Lawmakers Pass Bill Ending Ratepayer Subsidies Of 2 Coal Plants [44]

"After years of attempts, Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to end the subsidy for two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants that had cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $400,000 a day, after they were tucked into the tainted energy bill at the center of the largest corruption scandal in state history."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: AP [46], 05/01/2025
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"Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies" [47]

"Last week, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would speed up the approval process for certain fossil fuel projects, proclaiming that environmental analyses that previously would have taken years must now be taken down to, at maximum, a month. While the new procedures are seemingly a gift to the industry, this may actually be terrible news for pipeline developers, drillers, and miners."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [48], 05/01/2025
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USGS Water Data Centers May Soon Close, Threatening States’ Management [49]

"The Trump administration has terminated the leases of 25 U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers, which inform the water decisions of local and state governments across the country."

Disasters [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [50]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 05/01/2025
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"For Alabama’s Spotted Salamanders, a Win and a Warning" [53]

"A grassroots effort successfully pushed back on a development in Homewood that would have destroyed a critical salamander habitat. Still, amphibians face constant risks."

Biodiversity [54]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [50]
Water & Oceans [51]
Wildlife [55]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 05/01/2025
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"Trump Administration Dismisses Authors Of Key Climate Report" [58]

"The Trump administration told scientists writing a congressionally mandated climate report that it was “releasing” them from their roles and that the report’s scope was being reevaluated, in an email sent Monday and seen by The Washington Post."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [21]
Forests [59]
Government [22]
Infrastructure [37]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [50]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [15]
Science [16]
Water & Oceans [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [60], 04/30/2025
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"EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags" [61]

"As the Environmental Protection Agency works to roll back multiple public-health protections, it announced Monday that it intends to take action to combat toxic forever chemicals. Advocates are skeptical, saying the language of the announcement raises red flags." "The announcement emphasizes research, failing to mention ongoing litigation and existing regulation."

Chemicals [41]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [21]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 04/30/2025
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"EPA Canceling Nearly 800 Environmental Justice Grants" [63]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is canceling nearly 800 grants, most of which have to do with environmental justice, according to a court document."

Activism [64]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [65], 04/30/2025
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"Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes" [66]

"The governor wants assurances that the federal government will pay its share before moving forward." "Pritzker was reacting to the administration’s freezes and cancellation of funding around the country. But the move concerns Great Lakes advocates and freshwater biologists."

Biodiversity [54]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [21]
Fish & Fisheries [67]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [50]
Water & Oceans [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 04/30/2025
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"The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance" [69]

"“This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from the National Museum of African American History and Culture — affectionately known as the “Blacksonian.”"

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: BlackPressUSA [70], 04/30/2025
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