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"Staff Exodus, Case Gridlock: DOJ Environment Division Under Trump 2.0" [1]

"One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door, gutting the government’s capacity to defend its own energy and climate policies and kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check."

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [7]
Policy [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [12], 02/04/2026
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"Forever Stained" [13]

"How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy"

Chemicals [14]
Consumer [15]
Economy & Business [16]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Waste [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Charleston Post and Courier [20], 02/03/2026
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"Trump’s Exemption For EtO Polluters Faces Its Latest Test In Court" [21]

"The president exempted about 40 medical sterilization companies from Biden-era emissions standards. A new lawsuit challenges his authority."

Chemicals [14]
Environmental Health [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Grist [22], 02/03/2026
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Experts Call Omaha Coal Plant Clean Bill Of Health Misleading [23]

"On paper, the public power district serving much of eastern Nebraska has been trying to quit coal at its North Omaha plant since 2014. That June, its board voted to retire three of the plant’s five coal units in 2016 and convert the final two to natural gas in 2023."

Air [24]
Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [27]
Source: Flatwater Free Press [28], 02/03/2026
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Trump Energy Dept. Exempts New Nuclear Reactors From Environmental Review [29]

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."

Disasters [30]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Health [31]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [9]
Technology [34]
Waste [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [35], 02/03/2026
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Superfund Under Trump 2.0 — Quick … and Dirty? [36]

Every U.S. state has at least one Superfund site, the worst kind of toxic waste dump. And millions live near them. The latest TipSheet has a look at the state of the decades-old Superfund cleanup program under the Trump administration, and how environmental journalists can turn that into local stories, with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

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Chemicals [14]
Environmental Politics [3]
Government [4]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Waste [17]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
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Trump’s EPA Rollbacks Could Harm Air And Water — And Worsen Global Heating [40]

"In his first year back in office, Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped the Environmental Protection Agency, initiating nearly 70 actions to undo rules protecting ecosystems and the climate."

Air [24]
Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Guardian [42], 02/02/2026
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Biomass Industry Promised Southern Towns Prosperity. They Are Still Dying [43]

"States gave Drax millions in tax breaks in the hopes of boosting jobs."

Agriculture [44]
Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Technology [34]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Verite News [45], 02/02/2026
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Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills: Study [46]

"A sweeping proposal by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling could  result in more than 4,000 oil spills in U.S. waters, according to a new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity."

Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [3]
Fish & Fisheries [47]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 02/02/2026
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Texas Petrochemical Plants Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds Of Pollutants In Freeze [49]

"As freezing temperatures swept over West Texas last week, leaky pipeline systems in the Permian Basin of West Texas began to suck in air, spoiling their products, risking an explosion and leading operators to release or burn off vast volumes of gas."

Chemicals [14]
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [50]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 02/02/2026
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