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Enviros Worry Trump Re-Do Will Imperil Wyoming’s Climate-Stressed Red Desert [9]

"A pending ‘amendment’ to the BLM’s Rock Springs management plan is likely to open previously undeveloped areas to oil and gas drilling, observers say."

Biodiversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: WyoFile [19], 09/22/2025
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"Trump Nears Deal for Road Through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge" [20]

"The Trump administration is poised to approve a deal that would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska, according to internal Interior Department documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Biodiversity [10]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [22]
Health [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [25]
Transportation [26]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [27]
Source: NYTimes [28], 09/22/2025
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Colorado To Join Suit Alleging Oil Trains' Endangered Species Violations [29]

"Colorado, along with 15 other states, is poised to sue the federal government for ignoring endangered species regulations in a wide range of infrastructure projects on public lands. One of those projects, a controversial proposal to expand an oil shipping facility in Utah, would significantly increase hazardous rail shipments through Colorado."

Biodiversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: States Newsroom [31], 09/22/2025
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‘Female Fairywrens Sing To Their Eggs’ And Eight More Facts About Birdsong [32]

"From carolling magpies to the lullaby of fairywrens, the nature and purpose of birdsong is more varied than you might think"

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Studies [30]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [33]
Source: Guardian [34], 09/22/2025
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Wildfire Smoke Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in US, New Study Warns [35]

"Smoke from wildfires exacerbated by climate change may cause as many as 71,000 additional deaths per year in the United States by 2050, a study published Thursday in the journal Nature found."

Air [36]
Climate Change [37]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Studies [30]
Forests [22]
Pollution [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [33]
Canada [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 09/19/2025
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"Major Burgum Donor Lands Plum Job at Interior Department" [43]

"William Hague is a former telecom executive, and a campaign contributor to Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary."

Environmental Politics [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Public Domain [44], 09/19/2025
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"FOIA Records Reveal EPA Leaders Frequent Meetings With Industry Lobbyists" [45]

"Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission."

Agriculture [46]
Chemicals [47]
Climate Change [37]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [48], 09/19/2025
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"A Coal-Burning Steel Plant May Thwart Cleveland’s Climate Goals" [49]

"The facility is the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology."

Air [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [40]
Technology [50]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [51]
Source: Canary Media [52], 09/19/2025
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"Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways" [53]

"This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways."

Activism [54]
Chemicals [47]
Consumer [38]
Pollution [40]
Water & Oceans [55]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 09/19/2025
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Enviros and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Justice Grants [57]

"Environmental justice nonprofits, local governments and Indigenous groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center filed notice on Tuesday that they will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s dismissal of their case seeking to reverse the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program in February."

Activism [54]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [58]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [40]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 09/19/2025
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Proposed Dominion Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says [60]

"The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents."

Climate Change [37]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [58]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [40]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [61]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 09/19/2025
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Hurricane Helene Hit NC A Year Ago. Some Students Never Returned To School [63]

"When 12-year-old Natalie Briggs visited the ruins of her home after Hurricane Helene, she had to tightrope across a wooden beam to reach what was once her bedroom."

Climate Change [37]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Justice [58]
Government [64]
Infrastructure [24]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [55]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: AP/BRPR [66], 09/19/2025
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Maryland Joins Multistate Coalition To Buck Trump Vaccine Policies [67]

"Maryland has joined a growing coalition of states that are setting their own public health guidelines to counter the Trump administration’s more restrictive vaccine policies, a health department spokesperson said Thursday."

Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Technology [50]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [61]
Source: States Newsroom [68], 09/19/2025
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‘Sun Day’: Climate Activists To Rally For Clean Energy Amid Trump Attacks [69]

"Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency"

Activism [54]
Climate Change [37]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [40]
Technology [50]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [70], 09/19/2025
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National Academy Of Sciences Rebuffs Trump EPA Effort To Undo Climate Rules [71]

"Evidence that climate change harms public health is “beyond scientific dispute,” the independent National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark U.S. government finding to that effect that underpins key environmental regulations."

Climate Change [37]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [72]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [73], 09/18/2025
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