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Trump Loosens Gas Mileage Rule for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy [1]

"President Trump on Wednesday threw the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline rather than electric cars, gutting one of the country’s most significant efforts to address climate change and thrusting the automobile industry into greater uncertainty."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 12/04/2025
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"Trump Expected to Significantly Weaken Fuel Economy Rules" [15]

"The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to propose weakening automobile fuel efficiency standards that were set under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to spur the sale of electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan."

Air [2]
Chemicals [16]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Technology [17]
Transportation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [18], 12/03/2025
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Citizen Pollution Monitors Face Industry Pushback, Legal Threats [19]

A steep decline in the enforcement of environmental laws means the monitoring of pollution by citizens is more important than ever. But as the latest TipSheet notes, some states have passed laws that severely constrain the use of citizen monitoring or the sharing of findings. Get the backstory, along with top reporting angles and resources for finding monitoring in your area.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [21]
Air [2]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [23]
Government [24]
Health [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Science [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Visibility: 
Public [12]
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country [30]

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [31]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [32]
Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Government [24]
Health [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [33]
Policy [34]
Pollution [10]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [35]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [36]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [37]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [39]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
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Public [12]
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"Mumbai Families Suffer As Datacentres Keep The City Hooked On Coal" [41]

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"

Air [2]
Environmental Health [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
Asia [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 11/26/2025
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"Trump Exempts Coal Used In Steelmaking From Clean Air Act Rule" [45]

"President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years."

Air [2]
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Source: The Hill [46], 11/26/2025
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"EPA To Scrap Lifesaving Soot Pollution Limit" [47]

"The Trump administration has crossed a key threshold in its campaign to toss a stricter air pollution standard for soot, in a move that threatens to erase one of the Biden administration’s core public health accomplishments."

Air [2]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [48], 11/26/2025
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"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling" [49]

"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.

The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.

Air [2]
Biodiversity [50]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [51]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [52], 11/24/2025
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"Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People" [53]

"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."

Air [2]
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [8]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Africa [54]
Source: NYTimes [55], 11/19/2025
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Ammonia Gas Leak From Tanker Truck In Okla. Sickens Dozens, Forces Evacuations [56]

"A leaking tanker truck spewed dangerous ammonia gas outside a hotel overnight, filling its hallways with fumes and forcing hundreds of nearby residents of a small Oklahoma city to evacuate, authorities said Thursday. Several dozen people were treated at hospitals."

Air [2]
Chemicals [16]
Disasters [57]
Environmental Health [7]
People & Population [42]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [11]
Public [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [36]
Source: AP [58], 11/14/2025
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