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EPA Climate Rollback Based On Document Authored By 5 Climate Contrarians [9]

"In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced." "The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change."

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Source: CNN [18], 07/31/2025
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"Trump Yanks Millions of Acres of Ocean Designated for Wind Power" [19]

"The Trump administration is revoking approval for millions of acres of ocean to be set aside for offshore wind development amid an escalating attack on the renewable power source."

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Source: Bloomberg [24], 07/31/2025
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Resignation of Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence [25]

"NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo “apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics.”"

"A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence.
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Source: Mother Jones [30], 07/31/2025
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"4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment" [31]

"In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system."

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International [32]
Source: New Yorker [33], 07/31/2025
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"The West’s Data Centers Suck (Water And Power)" [34]

"From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies."

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Pollution [35]
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Source: High Country News [36], 07/31/2025
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Trump Moves to Cut Chemical Safety Board, Putting Texans and Others at Risk [37]

"Amid increasingly intense weather, the Chemical Safety Board is the lone independent agency watching over the Gulf Coast’s petrochemical corridor."

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Source: Capital & Main [41], 07/31/2025
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"The EU’s ‘Fantasy’ $750B Energy Promise To Trump" [42]

"The EU has narrowly avoided a full-blown trade war with Donald Trump by pledging to buy $750 billion of U.S. oil and gas by the end of his term. But achieving that will be almost impossible."

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Natural Resources [43]
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International [32]
Europe [44]
Source: Politico [45], 07/31/2025
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"USDA Reorganization Will Cut Agricultural And Forest Research" [46]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will close its flagship, but deteriorating research site in Maryland as part of a major reorganization aiming to shift 2600 employees away from the nation’s capital area, the agency announced this week. At the same time, USDA said it plans to shutter most of its forest research stations around the country. "

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Source: Science [53], 07/31/2025
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Countries Failing To Act On UN Climate Pledge To Triple Renewables: Thinktank [54]

"Most global governments have failed to act on the 2023 UN pledge to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade, according to climate analysts."

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International [32]
Source: Guardian [55], 07/31/2025
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DRC Opens Gorilla Habitats And Pristine Forest To Oil And Gas Drilling Bids [56]

"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks."

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Source: Guardian [58], 07/31/2025
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Tsunami Waves Reach Hawaii, West Coast Hours After 8.8 Russian Quake [59]

"Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast after one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history, a magnitude 8.8 temblor, struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 and triggered alerts across the Pacific, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast."

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Source: USA TODAY [61], 07/30/2025
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EPA Aims to Kill Bedrock Scientific Finding For Key Climate Rollback [62]

"The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus."

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Tuesday the Trump administration would revoke the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.
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Source: NYTimes [63], 07/30/2025
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Rule To Protect Workers From Heat Stress Moves Forward, Even Under Trump [64]

"Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced plans to revise or repeal 63 workplace regulations that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said “stifle growth and limit opportunity.” OSHA’s heat stress rule wasn’t among them. And though the new administration has the power to withdraw the draft regulation, it hasn’t."

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Source: Grist [65], 07/30/2025
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"Senate Confirms Susan Monarez To Lead CDC" [66]

"The Senate on Tuesday confirmed longtime federal government scientist Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the public health agency that is under intense scrutiny as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upends vaccine policy in United States."

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Source: Washington Post [68], 07/30/2025
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"How Rollins’ USDA Is Endangering American Agriculture" [69]

"Brooke Rollins believes she is waging a new American Revolution, leading a crusade against Biblical darkness and guiding U.S. agriculture into a “golden age.” In her first six months as the nation’s top agriculture official, Rollins has reshaped the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s focus — “more farmer, less climate,” she summarized."

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Source: Investgate Midwest [71], 07/30/2025
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