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Tsunami Waves Reach Hawaii, West Coast Hours After 8.8 Russian Quake [9]

"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."

Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [12]
International [13]
Source: USA TODAY [14], 07/30/2025
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EPA Aims to Kill Bedrock Scientific Finding For Key Climate Rollback [15]

"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.
Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [24], 07/30/2025
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Rule To Protect Workers From Heat Stress Moves Forward, Even Under Trump [25]

"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."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [27]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Grist [28], 07/30/2025
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"Senate Confirms Susan Monarez To Lead CDC" [29]

"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."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Health [30]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [31]
Science [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [32], 07/30/2025
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"How Rollins’ USDA Is Endangering American Agriculture" [33]

"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."

Agriculture [34]
Climate Change [16]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Politics [19]
Food [36]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Investgate Midwest [37], 07/30/2025
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"EPA To Suspend Methane Limits Without Public Input" [38]

"EPA plans to suspend requirements for oil and gas operations to limit their methane emissions using a regulatory maneuver that environmental attorneys say is a backdoor bid to avoid public notice and comment."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [31]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [39], 07/30/2025
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"These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email." [40]

"In March, the Trump administration created a novel way for companies to potentially avoid complying with environmental rules: Simply send an email to the Environmental Protection Agency and request an exemption. In response, representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [31]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [41], 07/30/2025
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Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling [42]

"More than 170 countries have gathered to save critical ecosystems. But the U.S. is a no-show and Russia said it will withdraw from the wetlands treaty."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [43]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [44]
Water & Oceans [23]
Wildlife [45]
Public [10]
International [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 07/30/2025
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Suit Claims Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater [47]

"Coosa Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Power, alleging significant groundwater pollution violations from the utility’s Gadsden coal ash pond that has been capped in place since 2018."

Chemicals [48]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [31]
Waste [49]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 07/30/2025
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Lawmakers Could End Plan To Shoot 450,000 Owls — To Save A Different Owl [51]

"Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including conservatives. Now lawmakers could kill the plan."

Biodiversity [43]
Environmental Politics [19]
Forests [52]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [44]
Wildlife [45]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: LA Times [53], 07/30/2025
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"EPA To Launch Plan Tuesday For Undoing Climate Rule Cornerstone" [54]

"The Trump administration is planning to release a proposal Tuesday that would overturn a 16-year-old scientific finding that has allowed three administrations to regulate climate pollution."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [31]
Science [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [55], 07/29/2025
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"Senate Spending Bills Take Trump To Task" [56]

"Senate appropriators on Thursday approved a $41.5 billion spending bill to fund the Interior Department and EPA, setting up a showdown with the House and President Donald Trump. The bill represents a bipartisan compromise on the agency budgets, a necessity given the need to attract 60 votes on appropriations measures in the Senate."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [57]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [58]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [59], 07/29/2025
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Black Women Fight for Life in Houston’s Most Toxic Neighborhood [60]

"In Settegast, where the average person dies before retirement age, Black women battle environmental racism and a record increase in cost of living."

Air [61]
Chemicals [48]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [31]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
Source: Capital B [63], 07/29/2025
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"How Brazil's 'Devastation Bill' Puts Amazon At Risk Of Deforestation" [64]

"As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon city of Belém in November, President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva is under pressure to veto a measure that could have a huge impact on the world's largest tropical rainforest."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [19]
Forests [52]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [10]
International [13]
South America [65]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [66], 07/29/2025
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"As a Heat Wave Roiled Illinois, People Incarcerated Suffered The Most" [67]

"As heat grips Illinois this summer, one group is more vulnerable to extreme heat than any other: Those incarcerated inside the state’s decaying prisons and jails."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [26]
Infrastructure [68]
People & Population [27]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [69]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 07/29/2025
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