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Trump EPA Aims To Cut Pollution Rules Projected To Save Nearly 200,000 Lives [1]

"A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead."

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National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Guardian [13], 03/20/2025
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"Fishermen Want To Go Green But Say DOGE Cuts Prevent That" [14]

"Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors looking to switch to new, lower-carbon emission systems say the federal funding they relied on for this work is either frozen or unavailable due to significant budget cuts promoted by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency."

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Energy & Fuel [16]
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Fish & Fisheries [17]
Laws & Regulations [7]
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National (U.S.) [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [18]
Source: AP [19], 03/20/2025
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"Trump Administration Approves Exports From Major LNG Project" [20]

"The Trump administration is authorizing a major gas facility to export the fuel abroad — clearing a major hurdle in getting the controversial project approved."

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
International [22]
Source: The Hill [23], 03/20/2025
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"Uranium Waste Threatens A Western New Mexico Region's Last Clean Aquifer" [24]

"Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region"

Chemicals [25]
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Infrastructure [27]
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Military [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [30]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
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National (U.S.) [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: Searchlight New Mexico [32], 03/20/2025
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"Greenpeace Must Pay At Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury" [33]

"A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago."

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Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
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National (U.S.) [12]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 03/20/2025
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"‘Our People Are Hungry’: What Federal Food Aid Cuts Mean In A Warming World" [38]

"Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though their contents are always a surprise, as the retired mechanic describes it, he’s able to get “fresh produce and stuff that a lot of us can’t afford because of the price of groceries.”"

Agriculture [39]
Consumer [26]
Economy & Business [15]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Food [40]
Government [41]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Grist [42], 03/19/2025
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"The End Of The EPA’s Fight To Protect Overpolluted Communities" [43]

"The first thing Amanda Cronin did when her supervisor offered her a job at the Environmental Protection Agency was buy herself a big piece of chocolate cake."

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Source: Grist [44], 03/19/2025
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"RFK Jr., Once Poisoned By Mercury, Is Silent As EPA Weakens Rules Against It" [45]

"The HHS secretary has fought mercury pollution for years. He’s now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water."

Activism [34]
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Environmental Health [3]
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Fish & Fisheries [17]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Water & Oceans [10]
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National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [46], 03/19/2025
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"America’s Ports Have Labored To Clean Up Pollution. Will That Continue?" [47]

"On a gray March afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S., powerful electric top-handlers whir, beep and grind as they motor back and forth, grabbing trailers from truck beds and stacking them as they move on or off the mighty container ships that ferry goods across the Pacific. Some of the ships, rather than burning diesel to sustain operations as they sit in harbor, plug into electricity instead."

Air [48]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [15]
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Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [49]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [50], 03/19/2025
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"Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion." [51]

"Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity."

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Source: NYTimes [53], 03/18/2025
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