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"E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose" [9]

"Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [20]
Waste [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [25], 03/13/2025
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"Majority Of The World’s Population Breathes Dirty Air, Report Says" [26]

"Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries and found that Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had the dirtiest air."

Air [10]
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Pollution [20]
Public [23]
International [27]
Source: AP [28], 03/13/2025
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The US Agency That Monitors Weather Will Cut Another 1,000 Jobs: AP Sources [29]

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday began plans to lay off 10% of its current workforce, people inside and outside the agency said, with some of them requesting anonymity due to fear of retribution."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Government [31]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [20]
Science [33]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [34], 03/13/2025
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Owner Says Arrested Captain Of Cargo Ship In North Sea Collision Is Russian [35]

"The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody, the vessel’s owner said Wednesday, as it emerged that the ship failed several safety checks last year."

Chemicals [11]
Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [37]
Public [23]
Europe [38]
Source: AP [39], 03/13/2025
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"EPA Likely To Move To Further Limit Federal Protections For Wetlands" [40]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for significant areas."

Agriculture [41]
Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [43], 03/13/2025
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"RFK Jr. Seeks To Tighten Loophole Allowing Chemicals In U.S. Food Supply" [44]

"The practice Kennedy is targeting, known as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), can occur when companies self-certify the safety of a food additive."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [45]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Food [46]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [20]
Science [33]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [47], 03/13/2025
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Trump Admin Slams Brakes On Government's Adoption Of Electric Vehicles [48]

"The Trump administration has halted much of the federal government's adoption of electric vehicles into its massive fleet of cars and trucks."

Air [10]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [45]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [31]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [20]
Technology [50]
Transportation [51]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NPR [52], 03/13/2025
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Plastic Pollution Leaves Seabirds With Brain Damage Similar To Alzheimer’s [53]

"Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study – adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife."

Biodiversity [42]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [45]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [20]
Waste [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [37]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [27]
Australia & Oceania [54]
Source: Guardian [55], 03/13/2025
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‘Global Weirding’: Climate Whiplash Hitting World’s Biggest Cities: Study [56]

"Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed." "Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped".

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [14]
Infrastructure [49]
Natural Resources [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [23]
International [27]
Source: Guardian [57], 03/13/2025
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Tribes Worry Trump's Cuts Have Potential To Violate Trust Responsibilities [58]

"Funding for the BIA, IHS and the Bureau of Indian Education represents the lion's share of the government's obligations to tribes and last year those departments made up less than a quarter of 1% of the federal budget"

Environmental Justice [15]
Government [31]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [19]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [59], 03/13/2025
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"Trump Just Weakened One Of The Nation’s Oldest Environmental Laws" [60]

"The Interior Department has suspended a legal opinion that held companies liable for accidentally killing ducks, cranes, pelicans, owls and hundreds of other bird species."

Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Wildlife [37]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [27]
Source: Washington Post [61], 03/12/2025
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Efforts Prevent CO2 Pipeline Leaks? Trump Admin Quietly Derailed Them. [62]

"Nearly five years after a pipeline spewed poison gas across a Mississippi town, federal regulators appeared ready in recent weeks to institute new safety rules aimed at preventing similar accidents across the U.S.’s fast-growing network of carbon dioxide pipelines.
But the proposed rules, unveiled five days before the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, were quietly derailed during the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term."

Chemicals [11]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Grist/Verite [63], 03/12/2025
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"Microplastics Boost Antibiotic Resistance In E. Coli, Lab Study Suggests" [64]

"Co-mingling of tiny pieces of plastic with certain harmful bacteria can make the bacteria harder to fight with several common antibiotics, according to a new study that adds to global concerns about antibiotic resistance."

Biodiversity [42]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Pollution [20]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The New Lede [65], 03/12/2025
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"Trump Cuts Target World-Leading Greenhouse Gas Observatory In Hawaii" [66]

"The Trump administration is considering canceling the lease of the support office for a renowned Hawaii climate research station, sources said, raising fears for the future of key work tracking the impact of carbon emissions on global warming."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [16]
Science [33]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Alaska and Hawaii [67]
Source: Reuters [68], 03/12/2025
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"Texas Leads U.S. Renewable Energy Generation by a Country Mile" [69]

"Texas widened its lead as the country’s renewable energy leader in 2024, with growth in solar and wind power, according to federal data."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 03/12/2025
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