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"Trump Emergency Order Halts Second Power Plant From Closure" [1]

"The Trump administration ordered another power plant to remain operational by invoking emergency powers for a second time, a day before the facility in Pennsylvania was scheduled to close."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [8]
Source: Bloomberg [9], 06/02/2025
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"Is The Oil And Gas Boom Harming New Mexico’s Students?" [10]

"Fossil fuel revenues bankroll education spending in this state, but schools exposed to industry pollution face environmental risks that can affect children’s health and performance." 

Air [11]
Chemicals [12]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: Searchlight NM/AP [19], 06/02/2025
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"White House Releases Details About Proposed Budget Cuts" [20]

"EPA’s core workforce would shrink to its smallest size since the mid-1980s, while funding for numerous grant programs would be zeroed out, according to new documents released Friday."

Biodiversity [21]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [22]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [17]
Science [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [25], 06/02/2025
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Analysis: Trump Administration Attacks Science, As Environment Suffers [26]

It’s not just scientists who are being lost to the new administration’s extensive firings of federal workers. A Backgrounder Analysis argues it’s the science itself. It’s happening at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but also across agencies that conduct research to protect health and the environment, whether around toxic chemicals or on the battleground of climate change science. A frank look at the reality and what’s being lost for journalists and the communities they serve.

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Chemicals [12]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [29]
Government [22]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Policy [32]
Science [23]
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"HHS Cancels Funding For Moderna To Develop Vaccines To Combat Bird Flu" [33]

"The Department of Health and Human Services is pulling millions of dollars it had committed to give Moderna to aid the effort to develop a vaccine to combat the bird flu in humans, the company announced Wednesday.

Environmental Politics [4]
Health [30]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [16]
Science [23]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [34], 05/30/2025
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"Louisiana Republicans Help Kill Anti-Fluoride Bill" [35]

"Republicans in the Louisiana House stifled a proposal Wednesday that would have banned the addition of fluoride in public water systems — rejecting a burgeoning movement backed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."

Chemicals [12]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: The Hill [38], 05/30/2025
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"US Woman Brings First-Ever Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Big Oil" [39]

"A woman has brought the first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil, claiming fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a major heatwave."

Activism [40]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [41]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Northwest (OR WA) [42]
Source: Guardian [43], 05/30/2025
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Appeals Court Revives Tribal Challenge To $10B SunZia Transmission Project [44]

"A federal appeals court has sided with Native American tribes in their fight against the federal government over a $10 billion energy transmission line designed to carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [16]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: AP [45], 05/30/2025
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Trump Admin Reverses Planned Closures Of 3 Dozen US Mine Safety Offices [46]

"The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws, the Department of Labor said Thursday."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [47]
People & Population [16]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [48], 05/30/2025
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$14 Billion In Clean Energy Projects Canceled In US This Year: Analysis [49]

"More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s pending megabill has raised fears over the future of domestic battery, electric vehicle and solar and wind energy development."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [50], 05/30/2025
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