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"EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say" [1]

"Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Science [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [11], 09/22/2025
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September 29, 2025

Up in the Air: Climate Policy Without the Endangerment Finding [12]

Join the UCLA Emmett Institute for a virtual discussion on the fight over the endangerment finding, the Trump administration's possible motivations and legal justifications, as well as the pushback from the scientific community, and what lies ahead in the process. 3:15 p.m. ET.

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Air [14]
Climate Change [2]
Government [15]
Policy [16]
Pollution [6]
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National (U.S.) [10]

‘Sun Day’: Climate Activists To Rally For Clean Energy Amid Trump Attacks [17]

"Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency"

Activism [18]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [6]
Technology [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Guardian [23], 09/19/2025
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Proposed Dominion Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says [24]

"The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [6]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 09/19/2025
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Enviros and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Justice Grants [29]

"Environmental justice nonprofits, local governments and Indigenous groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center filed notice on Tuesday that they will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s dismissal of their case seeking to reverse the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program in February."

Activism [18]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 09/19/2025
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"Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways" [31]

"This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways."

Activism [18]
Chemicals [32]
Consumer [33]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 09/19/2025
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"A Coal-Burning Steel Plant May Thwart Cleveland’s Climate Goals" [36]

"The facility is the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology."

Air [14]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Technology [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [37]
Source: Canary Media [38], 09/19/2025
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"FOIA Records Reveal EPA Leaders Frequent Meetings With Industry Lobbyists" [39]

"Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission."

Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [32]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The New Lede [41], 09/19/2025
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Wildfire Smoke Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in US, New Study Warns [42]

"Smoke from wildfires exacerbated by climate change may cause as many as 71,000 additional deaths per year in the United States by 2050, a study published Thursday in the journal Nature found."

Air [14]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Studies [43]
Forests [44]
Pollution [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [34]
Canada [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 09/19/2025
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"Trump Golf Course In Scotland Accused Of Breaching Sewage Limits" [47]

"Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019, documents reveal."

Environmental Health [25]
Infrastructure [20]
Pollution [6]
Waste [48]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Europe [49]
Source: Guardian [50], 09/18/2025
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