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EPA Knew It Wrongfully Canceled Dozens Of Environmental Grants: Documents [9]

"Trump officials knew their legal justification for terminating dozens of Environmental Protection Agency grants was flawed, according to documents and internal emails reviewed by The Washington Post."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [16], 03/26/2025
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"Trump Wants States To Handle Disasters. States Aren't Prepared" [17]

"President Trump has signed an executive order directing state and local governments to "play a more active and significant role" in preparing for disasters. For months, Trump has said he's considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the country's disaster response arm."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [22], 03/26/2025
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Utilities Don't Want To Clean Up Their Toxic Coal Ash. EPA Grants Their Wish. [23]

"Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide."

Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [18]
Consumer [25]
Disasters [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Grist [30], 03/26/2025
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"Republicans Helped Some Environment Programs Dodge DOGE" [31]

"Republican lawmakers have succeeded in back-channeling with Trump officials to save energy and environment programs and workers from the wrath of Elon Musk."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [33], 03/26/2025
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Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Use More Energy Than Most States [34]

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"As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options. But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require enormous amounts of energy, just as Texas fights to keep up with the rapidly growing power demands of a high-tech industrial buildout."

Chemicals [24]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 03/26/2025
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EPA Cuts Grants For Measuring and Reducing Construction Material Emissions [37]

"The Trump administration has eviscerated a grant program designed to make U.S. industry cleaner and more competitive by improving measurement of emissions from building materials. The Environmental Protection Agency says it has canceled $116 million in grants to 21 recipients that include universities and trade groups, according to information obtained by the Sierra Club through a public records request."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 03/26/2025
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Despite Staff and Budget Cuts, NOAA Issues Critical Drought Warnings [39]

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although battered by Trump administration attempts to impose massive staff and budget cuts on the agency, nevertheless continues to publish critical climate information, including some dire drought warnings in the spring outlook published March 20 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center."

Agriculture [40]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [27]
Science [41]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 03/26/2025
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"California Launches First-In-Nation Satellite Tech To Curb Methane Leaks" [43]

"California air quality regulators announced the launch of a first-in-nation satellite data project Friday, with the aim of monitoring and minimizing methane emissions."

Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [28]
Technology [44]
Public [14]
California [45]
Source: The Hill [46], 03/26/2025
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"Supreme Court Weighs Which Courts Can Hear Clean Air Act Disputes" [47]

"The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of D.C. — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [21]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [48], 03/26/2025
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Is Planting Trees 'DEI'? Trump USFS Cuts Nationwide Tree-Planting Effort [49]

"The Trump administration's efforts to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs has hit an unexpected target: In February, communities around the country learned that funding was canceled for a nationwide tree-planting program aimed at making neighborhoods cooler, healthier and more resilient to climate change."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [50]
Infrastructure [51]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [52], 03/26/2025
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"Voice Of America Journalists Sue Trump Officials For Dismantling The Outlet" [53]

"The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order Trump administration officials to restore VOA."

"Six Voice of America journalists — including its former White House bureau chief — sued members of the Trump administration Friday, accusing officials of unlawfully shuttering a federally funded media outlet that has delivered news coverage to millions across the globe since its founding during World War II.
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [54]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [55], 03/25/2025
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Congress Seeks Trillions in Cuts. Will Oil Industry’s Tax Breaks Skate By? [56]

"With a $4.5 trillion fight over tax cuts looming, the oil and gas industry wants to protect billions of dollars in tax benefits it enjoys and get new ones, too."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 03/25/2025
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Georgia Jury Orders Bayer To Pay Nearly $2.1 Billion In Roundup Suit [58]

"A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, according to attorneys representing the plaintiff."

Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [24]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [59], 03/25/2025
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"New Fire Maps Put Nearly 4 Million Californians In Hazardous Zones" [60]

"With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps this morning, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much that computationally-modeled danger zone has grown since the state issued its last round of local hazard maps more than a decade ago."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Studies [61]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [32]
Public [14]
California [45]
Source: CalMatters [62], 03/25/2025
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"Trump Will Nominate Acting CDC Director Susan Monarez For The Position" [63]

"President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a longtime federal staffer, to the permanent position, a White House official confirmed Monday."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [61]
Government [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [64], 03/25/2025
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