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"Trump’s Executive Order Targeted This Museum. Many Visitors Question Why." [9]

"At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology."

Diversity [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
People & Population [14]
Science [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [18], 03/31/2025
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"Trump Admin Cancels Over $12B In Health Care Grants" [19]

"The Trump administration is canceling billions of dollars in grant funding to state and local health departments without warning, throwing their programs into disarray."

Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Axios [26], 03/31/2025
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"Memos: FEMA Blocked $10B In Disaster Aid" [27]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits including hospitals as it seeks to identify funding that could be used to help undocumented migrants, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [23]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [31], 03/31/2025
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"How Trump’s Tariffs Could Brake EVs But Accelerate Tesla" [32]

"The planned 25 percent tariff on imported automobiles is a gut punch for most electric vehicle makers, whose supply chains are rooted in China." "At the same time as tariffs wound the overall EV market, they could provide a window of opportunity for automakers that already produce EVs and batteries domestically and could beat competitors on price. The most likely winner is Tesla, analysts said, though other automakers could also benefit."

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [14]
Transportation [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [36], 03/31/2025
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"How Lee Zeldin Went From Environmental Moderate to Dismantling the E.P.A." [37]

"He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world."

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [38], 03/31/2025
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"Arctic Sea Ice Winter Peak In 2025 Is Smallest In 47-Year Record" [39]

"Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals."

Climate Change [29]
Science [15]
Transportation [35]
Public [16]
International [40]
Antarctica & Arctic [41]
Source: Carbon Brief [42], 03/31/2025
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Trump Fires Green TVA Board Member Without Publicly Providing a Reason [43]

"Michelle Moore was widely seen as the most progressive member of the body, which oversees the nation’s largest public power company."

Activism [44]
Climate Change [29]
Diversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
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Source: Inside Climate News [46], 03/31/2025
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Plastics Seeping Into Fields, Food And Human Bodies. Can They Be Stopped? [47]

"In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city."

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [48]
Chemicals [49]
Consumer [50]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Studies [13]
Food [51]
Public [16]
International [40]
Source: AP [52], 03/31/2025
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Some L.A. Homes Are Being Built To Resist Wildfires — And Some Aren't [53]

"Homeowners in Los Angeles have started the long process of rebuilding after the destructive wildfires in January. Some are constructing homes that are much less likely to burn when the next wildfire hits." "Still, thousands of other homeowners in the urban center of Altadena are about to rebuild without wildfire-resistant materials, because they live outside a state-designated wildfire zone."

Climate Change [29]
Disasters [20]
Diversity [10]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [34]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [54]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [55]
Source: NPR [56], 03/31/2025
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"Blue Ridge Parkway: Will "Take Years" For Some Areas To Be Repaired" [57]

"While repairs to storm-battered sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway are underway, it will "take years" to repair some of the damage, according to the National Park Service."

Climate Change [29]
Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Natural Resources [54]
People & Population [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: National Parks Traveler [58], 03/31/2025
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"Fossil Fuel Companies Get Direct Email Line To Trump For Exemption Requests" [59]

"Donald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them."

Air [60]
Chemicals [49]
Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [61], 03/28/2025
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"Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price." [62]

"A North Carolina college, ravaged by Hurricane Helene, can’t rebuild unless federal money starts flowing. A nonprofit in Florida that helped Hayley Riotto and her children after Hurricane Ian may have to start cutting staff. A Hawaii group that helps survivors of the Lahaina fire says it can only go another month or two before eliminating workers."

Climate Change [29]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [63]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [64], 03/28/2025
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"Secret Energy Department "Hit List" Targets Renewable Energy Industry" [65]

"During his confirmation hearing, Energy Secretary Chris Wright tried to convince senators he wasn’t your typical fracking executive. ... But, after his confirmation, Wright walked back that promise, claiming renewable technologies are inherently unreliable. “There is simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas,” he claimed at a fossil fuel industry conference this month."

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: HEATED [66], 03/28/2025
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"Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn" [67]

"Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planet’s spin and shift the location of the North Pole, according to a new study published today in Science that tracks how human activities have disrupted the global water cycle. The persistent loss of water from land to oceans has dried out huge portions of every continent and may be irreversible, scientists describing the new research said this week."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [29]
Environmental Studies [13]
Natural Resources [54]
Water & Oceans [63]
Public [16]
International [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 03/28/2025
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"The Oil Industry Takes Its Critics To Court" [69]

"At the White House last week, the nation’s top oil executives asked President Donald Trump for help fighting state laws that seek billions of dollars from fossil fuel companies."

Climate Change [29]
Economy & Business [21]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [70], 03/28/2025
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