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"EPA Urges White House To Strike Down Landmark Climate Finding" [1]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly."

Climate Change [2]
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International [11]
Source: Washington Post [12], 02/27/2025
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"Trump: EPA Boss Expects To Cut 65 Percent Of Staff" [13]

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin expects to cut most of that agency’s staff, President Donald Trump said Wednesday as he and his administration plow ahead with dramatic reductions to the federal workforce."

Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [15]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: E&E News [16], 02/27/2025
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"Congress Set to Vote on Repeal of Biden Administration Climate Regulations" [17]

"Congress is scheduled to vote on two bills this week that would roll back climate regulations issued in the final months of the Biden administration. The agencies that implemented the rules, which limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and set efficiency standards for water heaters, expected them to prevent tens of millions of tons of climate pollution in coming decades if left in place."

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Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [20]
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National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 02/26/2025
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"BP Expected To Scrap Renewables Target In Shift Back To Fossil Fuels" [22]

"Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week"

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Pollution [20]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [11]
Source: Guardian [24], 02/26/2025
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Pipeline Company’s $300M Lawsuit vs. Greenpeace Heads To Trial In N. Dakota [25]

"A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry."

Activism [26]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Canada [28]
Source: AP [29], 02/26/2025
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Environmental Policies Upended, Climate Plans a Casualty As Trump Takes Power [30]

In the overview summary for our “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy” special report, we foresee the very real prospect that environmental protection and energy policies in place, in some cases, for decades could swiftly be swept aside by the Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress. Read our analysis [30], plus look back at more than three dozen stories gathered together in our ninth annual guide [31].

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Open Door to Industry for Trump Environmental Agency Appointees [36]

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 [37].

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Agriculture [39]
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Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Forests [41]
Government [15]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [42]
Policy [35]
Pollution [20]
Waste [43]
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Trump Wants the Federal Government to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations [44]

"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 [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Transportation [45]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 02/24/2025
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"Outcry As Trump Withdraws Support For Research That Mentions ‘Climate’" [47]

"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 [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Science [48]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [11]
Source: Guardian [49], 02/24/2025
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [50]

"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 [2]
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Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [7]
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National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 02/21/2025
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