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House GOP Targets Clean Energy Tax Credits And Pollution Rules In Budget Bill [9]

"House Republicans are calling for billions of dollars in funding cuts for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits, as lawmakers seek to reverse what one GOP leader called “the most reckless parts of the engorged climate spending” approved under former President Joe Biden."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [19], 05/13/2025
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"The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals" [20]

"Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [23], 05/13/2025
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"What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero." [24]

"The Trump administration has directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [28], 05/13/2025
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"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency" [29]

"Political leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have told scientists there to apply to new jobs, implying that those who do not may be fired, according to an official with a union representing the agency’s employees."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [31]
Technology [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [33], 05/13/2025
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Energy Department Proposes To Cut 47 Rules On Energy Efficiency, SPR, DEI [34]

"The Energy Department has announced proposals to cut dozens of energy efficiency and other rules in what it is describing as the ”‘largest deregulatory effort in history.” The department plans to ax a long list of efficiency regulations, including those pertaining to stoves, ovens, showerheads, clothes washers, dishwashers and microwaves."

Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [36], 05/13/2025
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"Trump Reinstating Commercial Fishing In Northeast Marine Monument" [37]

"President Trump is reinstating commercial fishing in a national marine monument after the practice was blocked by his Democratic predecessors."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [40]
Source: The Hill [41], 05/13/2025
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"Republicans Press Trump For Action Ahead Of Wildfire Season" [42]

"A group of Republicans has asked President Trump in a letter to implement “immediate, decisive action” ahead of wildfire season."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [43]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [45], 05/13/2025
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Great Lakes May Get A Reprieve From The Great Carp Invasion After All [46]

"A stalemate between President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that threatened a $1.2 billion plan to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes appears to have been settled after the Trump administration offered assurances it will cover its share of the costs."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
Technology [32]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [47]
Source: AP [48], 05/13/2025
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"Sell The Trees Or Fix The Forests…Or Both?" [49]

"Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would sidetrack science and allow for less analysis under the country’s hallmark environmental law. Critics fear that approach could accelerate unnecessary logging in national forests."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [43]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: National Parks Traveler [50], 05/13/2025
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"Amazon Catholics Hope The New Pope Will Protect The Rain Forest" [51]

"The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Forests [43]
Natural Resources [44]
People & Population [22]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [52]
Public [17]
South America [53]
Source: AP [54], 05/13/2025
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"The Trump Administration Has All But Stopped Enforcing Environmental Laws" [55]

"The EPA is the nation's top environmental cop. In the last few months, the federal agency has significantly scaled back pollution enforcement."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [56], 05/12/2025
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"Enviros Release Climate Emissions Data After EPA Refused" [57]

"An environmental group has released EPA’s annual accounting of greenhouse gas emissions after the agency refused to do so."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [30]
Journalism & Media [58]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [59], 05/12/2025
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Trump To Stop US Research On Space Pollution, In Boon To Elon Musk [60]

"The Trump administration is poised to kill federal research into pollution from satellites and rockets, including some caused by Elon Musk’s space companies, raising new conflict-of-interest questions about the billionaire SpaceX and Starlink owner."

Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [61], 05/12/2025
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"Public Lands Sales The New Threat To GOP Megabill" [62]

"A last-minute add to the Republican tax, energy and national security megabill mandating the sale of public lands threatens to fracture GOP support for the sweeping measure, presenting Speaker Mike Johnson a new hurdle as he races to assuage his party on multiple fronts."

Agriculture [63]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [64], 05/12/2025
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"Trump Tightens Control Of Independent Agency Overseeing Nuclear Safety" [65]

"The Trump administration has tightened its control over the independent agency responsible for overseeing America's nuclear reactors, and it is considering an executive order that could further erode its autonomy, two U.S. officials who declined to speak publicly because they feared retribution told NPR."

Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [66]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [67], 05/12/2025
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