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Explosion at La. Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout [1]

"As oily rain fell on Roseland, where 90% of kids live in poverty, the Trump administration is considering gutting chemical-disaster safeguards."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
Source: Capital B [13], 09/04/2025
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Despite Trump's Brags, New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells [14]

"Hakim Dermish moved to the small South Texas town of Catarina in 2002 in search of a rural lifestyle on a budget. The property where he lived with his wife didn’t have electricity or sewer lines at first, but that didn’t bother him."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [15]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: ICN/ProPublica [17], 09/04/2025
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"Republicans Secure Massive Water, Environment Earmarks" [18]

"GOP lawmakers could nab hundreds of millions of dollars for major water projects if fiscal 2026 spending bills become law."

Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Transportation [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [23], 09/04/2025
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"White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind" [24]

"The White House has taken the extraordinary step of instructing a half-dozen agencies to draft plans to thwart the country’s offshore wind industry as it intensifies its governmentwide attack on a source of renewable energy that President Trump has criticized as ugly, expensive and inefficient."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [27], 09/04/2025
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"Judges Say EPA Can Take Back Billions In Climate Grants" [28]

"A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that EPA can terminate $20 billion in climate grants that was awarded to nonprofit groups last year."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [29], 09/03/2025
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"Internal Emails Reveal Interior’s Empire Wind Deliberations" [30]

"The messages show the Trump administration included offshore wind foes in the push to cancel permitted projects."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [20]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [31], 09/02/2025
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Trump DOT Cancels $679 Million For Offshore Wind Projects As Industry Reels [32]

"The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [33], 09/02/2025
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"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [34]

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [35], 08/29/2025
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Trump Climate Science Denial Hinges on … Not Saying the Word [36]

A war on the facts behind climate change — and on the actions to address it — is well underway in the second Trump administration. The new WatchDog Opinion column takes the measure of the battlefront, eyeing key examples of the political onslaught, including a concerted effort to eradicate the very term itself. Regulations killed, research discredited, speech censored and more.

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Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [38]
Government [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Planning & Growth [41]
Policy [42]
Science [43]
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Public [10]
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"The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill" [44]

"A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 08/28/2025
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