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"HHS Cancels Funding For Moderna To Develop Vaccines To Combat Bird Flu" [9]

"The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday.

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Source: Washington Post [17], 05/30/2025
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Ancestral Eyes: Storytelling Under The Night Skies Of The Stargazer Highway [18]

"Against the black night, the darker-than-night silhouettes of Monument Valley buttes graced the horizon. Overhead, stars were scattered across the sky—a prank by Coyote, according to Navajo legend—and the stripe of Milky Way stars arced brilliantly across the sky from the southwest to the northeast horizon."

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Source: National Parks Traveler [23], 05/30/2025
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Manitoba Declares A State Of Emergency Over Wildfires As Thousands Flee [24]

The Canadian province of Manitoba has declared a state of emergency over a series of wildfires, and Prime Minister Mark Carney has agreed to send in the military to help. ... The fires have forced 17,000 people across several communities to flee."

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Source: AP [30], 05/29/2025
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"Supreme Court Rejects Bid To Stop Arizona Copper Mine" [31]

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from some members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to block a massive proposed copper mine that they say will destroy a holy site in Arizona known as Oak Flat."

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Source: E&E News [35], 05/29/2025
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"Trump Plan Could Offload Hundreds Of National Park Sites To States" [36]

"The National Park Service manages 433 units around the country, including many smaller parks aimed at preserving places of historical significance."

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Source: E&E News [37], 05/29/2025
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Fungus Devastated North American Bats. New Species Could Be Killer Blow. [38]

"Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada."

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Source: NYTimes [42], 05/29/2025
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"Judge Halts Trump Administration Effort To Axe New York Congestion Pricing" [43]

"A judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration effort to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program, which imposes a significant toll on cars entering part of Manhattan."

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Source: The Hill [50], 05/29/2025
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"A Michigan Coal Plant Was About To Close. Trump Ordered It To Stay Open." [51]

"The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, and the grid operators responsible for maintaining reliability all agree it’s safe to shut them down."

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Source: Canary Media [54], 05/29/2025
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Md. Advocates Urge Penalties on Gas Firm After False Environmental Claims [55]

"Advocates are ramping up pressure on the Maryland Public Service Commission to penalize Washington Gas Light Company following a March ruling which found that the company misled millions of customers by claiming methane gas was better for the environment than electricity."

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Source: Inside Climate News [57], 05/29/2025
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Colorado River Is Running Low. Groundwater Looks Even Worse, Study Says. [58]

"The dwindling flow of the Colorado River has alarmed the American West for years, but the water losses happening underground are even worse, according to a new study that uses satellite data to measure groundwater supplies across the Colorado River Basin."

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Source: Washington Post [63], 05/29/2025
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US Peregrine Falcons Thrive In Cities But Struggle With Bird Flu On Coasts [64]

"After rebounding in recent decades due to conservation efforts, the number of once-imperiled peregrine falcons in the U.S. has been dropping again in some places due to the bird flu that has decimated other avian populations in recent years."

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Source: AP [65], 05/29/2025
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Friends Complete Murdered Journalist Dom Phillips's Book on The Amazon [66]

"After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete."

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Source: AP [70], 05/29/2025
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"In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution" [71]

"Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech."

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Source: NYTimes [75], 05/28/2025
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Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands High-Level Job at Interior [76]

"Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a long-time Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020."

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Source: Public Domain [77], 05/28/2025
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"Trump’s Tariffs and Tax Bill May Derail U.S. Battery Industry" [78]

"Domestic factories that make batteries to store power to meet America’s rising energy demand depend on Chinese components and federal subsidies."

Climate Change [25]
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Source: NYTimes [79], 05/28/2025
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