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Open Door to Industry for Trump Environmental Agency Appointees [1]

It’s not just the heads of Trump administration environmental agencies who come from the industries they now are entrusted to regulate. The latest TipSheet explains that it’s also the political appointees below them — officials responsible for overseeing air, water, toxic chemicals, Superfund, forests and drilling — who are now likely examples of regulatory capture. A short list. Plus, more from our new Trump 2.0 EJWatch special section [2].

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Chemicals [6]
Climate Change [7]
Economy & Business [8]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Waste [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [20]
Visibility: 
Public [21]
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Trump Wants the Federal Government to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations [22]

"The Trump administration has directed a federal agency to disconnect its electric vehicle charging stations, part of the president’s agenda to roll back progress on EVs and clean energy."

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [23]
Transportation [24]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 02/24/2025
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"Outcry As Trump Withdraws Support For Research That Mentions ‘Climate’" [26]

"The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”"

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [27]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [28]
Source: Guardian [29], 02/24/2025
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [30]

"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."

Climate Change [7]
Diversity [31]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Justice [32]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [33]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 02/21/2025
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Michigan Appeals Court Upholds Permits For Great Lakes Pipeline Tunnel [35]

"Enbridge Energy’s plans to build a protective tunnel around an aging pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes can continue, a Michigan appeals court ruled."

Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Canada [37]
Source: AP [38], 02/21/2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets [39]

"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [27]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Europe [40]
Source: DeSmog [41], 02/21/2025
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EV Battery Manufacturing Capacity Will Rise When 10 New Plants Come Online [42]

"Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States."

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Infrastructure [23]
Technology [43]
Transportation [24]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 02/21/2025
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"Feds Approve Another Deepwater Oil Export Terminal Off Texas" [45]

"The Trump administration on Friday approved plans for a second deepwater oil loading terminal off the Texas coast, opening another door for continued long-term growth in American crude production and exports." "An export infrastructure buildout will enable further growth in American oil production as momentum fades on a phase-out of fossil fuels, even as global temperatures continue to break records."

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 02/20/2025
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"Louisiana Gas Export Terminal Gets Key Approval to Move Ahead" [47]

"The U.S. Department of Energy has granted conditional authorization for a contested project to export liquified natural gas in southwest Louisiana, potentially the first in a string of such moves in the second Trump administration."

Climate Change [7]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 02/20/2025
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"Rural Ohioans Oppose Solar Farms, Right? Not So, Developer Finds" [49]

"A large majority of public commenters support Open Road Renewables’ plan to build a big agrivoltaics project in central Ohio." "A new analysis shows that a clear majority of people submitting comments on a planned central Ohio solar farm support the project — a stark contrast with how opponents have portrayed public sentiment."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Consumer [50]
Economy & Business [8]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Infrastructure [23]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [51]
Source: Canary Media [52], 02/20/2025
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