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Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database [9]

"Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [19], 05/14/2025
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"Senate Republicans Balk at House Plan to Gut Energy Tax Cuts" [20]

"Key Senate Republicans are resisting the House’s plan to gut clean energy tax credits, vowing to soften the blow for emerging technologies. The pushback comes just a day after House Republicans released a plan to help pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts by cutting more than $500 billion in energy tax credits from former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg [22], 05/14/2025
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"Trump Promised U.S. Dominance. Instead, Energy Companies Are Faltering." [23]

"President Donald Trump promised to unleash an energy renaissance that would lock in U.S. dominance over oil and gas. But that is not how things are working out for America’s drillers, fracking firms and equipment suppliers, including the company founded by Trump’s own energy secretary."

Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [25], 05/14/2025
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Project To Raise California’s Shasta Dam Could Move Forward Under Trump [26]

"Enlarging the dam would deliver more Sacramento River water to Central Valley farmers but a tribe could lose sacred sites and endangered salmon could lose habitat in wet years."

Agriculture [27]
Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [31]
Source: CalMatters [32], 05/14/2025
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Georgia’s Beloved Shrimp Industry Grapples With Disease And Foreign Imports [33]

"The tart saltwater odor of fresh-caught shrimp hangs thick in the air, stronger even than the earthier scent of marsh and mud, at Bubba Gumbo’s and BG Seafood, a dockside restaurant and seafood market on Tybee Island, Georgia. This is one of many restaurants that dot the creeks and rivers snaking like veins through the coastal Georgia marshes. They run the gamut from the upscale and trendy to more bare-bones joints like this one, adjacent to a working dock."

Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [34]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
People & Population [35]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: Grist/WABE [37], 05/14/2025
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House GOP Targets Clean Energy Tax Credits And Pollution Rules In Budget Bill [38]

"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 [28]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [41], 05/13/2025
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"The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals" [42]

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

Chemicals [43]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: WIRED [44], 05/13/2025
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"What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero." [45]

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

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [46]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [47], 05/13/2025
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"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency" [48]

"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 [28]
Chemicals [43]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [49]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [40]
Science [50]
Technology [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [52], 05/13/2025
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Energy Department Proposes To Cut 47 Rules On Energy Efficiency, SPR, DEI [53]

"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 [12]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [40]
Technology [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [54], 05/13/2025
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"Trump Reinstating Commercial Fishing In Northeast Marine Monument" [55]

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

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Source: The Hill [57], 05/13/2025
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"Republicans Press Trump For Action Ahead Of Wildfire Season" [58]

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

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [59]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [60], 05/13/2025
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Great Lakes May Get A Reprieve From The Great Carp Invasion After All [61]

"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 [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [24]
Technology [51]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [62]
Source: AP [63], 05/13/2025
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"Sell The Trees Or Fix The Forests…Or Both?" [64]

"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 [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [59]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: National Parks Traveler [65], 05/13/2025
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"Amazon Catholics Hope The New Pope Will Protect The Rain Forest" [66]

"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 [28]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [59]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [67]
Public [17]
South America [68]
Source: AP [69], 05/13/2025
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