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“We Feel Terrorized”: EPA Employees Decide to Stay or Go Under Trump [9]

"More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [19], 02/10/2025
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"As War Halts, the Environmental Devastation in Gaza Runs Deep" [20]

"The war in Gaza has taken a heavy toll on the environment, with water supplies contaminated, raw sewage pouring into the Mediterranean, once-fertile soils ruined, and the land stripped of trees. Experts say the extent of the damage needs to be tallied to help plan for a recovery."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [22]
Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [10]
Infrastructure [25]
Military [26]
Pollution [16]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
Middle East [29]
Source: YaleE360 [30], 02/10/2025
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"Battle Rages Over Proposed Legal Protections For Pesticide Makers" [31]

"Pesticide company efforts to push through laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other. Laws have been introduced in at least 8 states so far and drafts are circulating in more than 20 states, backed by a deluge of advertising supporting the measures."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [22]
Chemicals [23]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [33]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [35], 02/10/2025
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"CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People" [36]

"The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report."

Agriculture [21]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [10]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [15]
Wildlife [34]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [39], 02/10/2025
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"U.S. Aid Agency’s Climate Programs Aimed to Curb Migration. Now They’re Gone." [40]

"Aid projects were designed to help Central Americans withstand extreme weather at home. Their end could undercut Trump’s goal of reducing migration."

Agriculture [21]
Climate Change [41]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Central America & the Caribbean [42]
Source: NYTimes [43], 02/10/2025
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"Study Finds Microplastic Contamination In 99% Of Seafood Samples" [44]

"Microplastics contamination is widespread in seafood sampled in a recent study, adding to growing evidence of the dangerous substances’ ubiquity in the nation’s food system, and a growing threat to human health." "The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 180 of 182 samples comprising five types of fish and pink shrimp".

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [37]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Food [46]
Natural Resources [33]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [47], 02/10/2025
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"Supreme Court Rebuffs Trump Admin Bids To Pause EPA Cases" [48]

"In a setback for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has rejected requests to freeze proceedings in a set of pending cases, including one involving California’s long-standing authority to set strict tailpipe emissions for vehicles."

Air [49]
Climate Change [41]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [50], 02/10/2025
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"Huffman Demands Probe Of DOGE’s ‘Illegal’ NOAA Actions" [51]

"The House Natural Resources ranking member is worried Elon Musk could stand to benefit if parts of NOAA were privatized."

Climate Change [41]
Disasters [24]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [33]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [52], 02/10/2025
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Trump’s LNG Strategy Makes No Sense. It Will Raise Gas Prices. [53]

"President Trump says increasing liquefied natural gas exports will lower gas prices. He’s got it all backward."

Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [41]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [54]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [55]
Source: Sierra [56], 02/10/2025
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"California Introduces Online Dashboard to Track Silicosis Cases" [57]

"The California Department of Public Health has unveiled an online dashboard that tracks cases of the lung disease silicosis among fabricators of artificial-stone countertops in the state."

Air [49]
Environmental Health [10]
Journalism & Media [38]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [58]
Source: Public Health Watch [59], 02/10/2025
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"EPA To Prioritize AI, Lobbyists And Staff Cuts In ‘Mission To Traumatize’" [60]

"A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority."

Climate Change [41]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [54]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [61], 02/07/2025
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"Trump Dismantles Environmental Justice Team, Staff Put on Leave" [62]

"The EPA on Thursday put 168 employees within its environmental justice office on administrative leave as the Trump administration executes presidential actions to roll back diversity initiatives."

Climate Change [41]
Energy & Fuel [54]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [63], 02/07/2025
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"Where Coal Is Retiring, and Hanging On, in the U.S." [64]

"About 780 coal units, individual generators with a boiler and a turbine capable of producing electricity, have retired since 2000. And more than half of the remaining units are also slated for retirement, according to new data from the Global Energy Monitor, an organization that collects international energy data."

Climate Change [41]
Energy & Fuel [54]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [65], 02/07/2025
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As Trump Purges Climate Data and Web Pages, Groups Scramble To Save Them [66]

"The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it."

Activism [67]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 02/07/2025
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Big Oil’s Huge Spending On Lobbying Hobbled Key California Climate Measures [69]

"One bill that would have required oil companies to help pay for damages from climate-driven disasters failed and another that would levy heavy fines on refineries that release toxic air contaminants was watered down."

Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [54]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
California [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 02/07/2025
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