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House Natural Resources Chair’s Oil Stock Purchases Were Unusual For Panel [9]

"Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) bought stock in a dozen mining, oil and gas giants two months before ramming an industry-friendly budget bill through his committee."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Public Domain [20], 05/14/2025
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"3M to Pay New Jersey Up to $450 Million for Drinking-Water Contamination" [21]

"3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated the state with harmful “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, affecting drinking water."

Chemicals [22]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [26]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Source: NYTimes [30], 05/14/2025
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"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages" [31]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."

Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [23]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [25]
Science [35]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [36], 05/14/2025
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"FEMA Cuts Emergency Training As Hurricane Season Looms" [37]

"The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to current and former officials, memos seen by Reuters, and three sources familiar with the situation."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [33]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Reuters [38], 05/14/2025
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"Trump Administration to Fast-Track Permits for Utah Uranium Mine" [39]

"The Interior Department said it would fast-track the permitting process for a uranium mine in Utah as part of President Trump’s plan to shorten environmental reviews and speed the construction of certain types of energy projects." "An environmental review of the project, known as Velvet-Wood, would normally take roughly a year. The government says it will complete the process in two weeks."

Chemicals [22]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [40]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [41]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [42]
Source: NYTimes [43], 05/14/2025
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Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database [44]

"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 [11]
Disasters [33]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Reuters [45], 05/14/2025
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"Senate Republicans Balk at House Plan to Gut Energy Tax Cuts" [46]

"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 [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg [47], 05/14/2025
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"Trump Promised U.S. Dominance. Instead, Energy Companies Are Faltering." [48]

"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 [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [49], 05/14/2025
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Project To Raise California’s Shasta Dam Could Move Forward Under Trump [50]

"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 [32]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [51]
Infrastructure [52]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [53]
Source: CalMatters [54], 05/14/2025
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Georgia’s Beloved Shrimp Industry Grapples With Disease And Foreign Imports [55]

"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 [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [23]
Fish & Fisheries [51]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: Grist/WABE [57], 05/14/2025
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House GOP Targets Clean Energy Tax Credits And Pollution Rules In Budget Bill [58]

"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 [13]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [59], 05/13/2025
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"The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals" [60]

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

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: WIRED [61], 05/13/2025
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"What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero." [62]

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

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [33]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [64], 05/13/2025
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"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency" [65]

"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 [22]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [40]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [26]
Science [35]
Technology [66]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [67], 05/13/2025
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Energy Department Proposes To Cut 47 Rules On Energy Efficiency, SPR, DEI [68]

"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 [13]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [26]
Technology [66]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [69], 05/13/2025
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