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"Enviros Release Climate Emissions Data After EPA Refused" [1]

"An environmental group has released EPA’s annual accounting of greenhouse gas emissions after the agency refused to do so."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [8]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [12], 05/12/2025
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"The Trump Administration Has All But Stopped Enforcing Environmental Laws" [13]

"The EPA is the nation's top environmental cop. In the last few months, the federal agency has significantly scaled back pollution enforcement."

Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Grist [16], 05/12/2025
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [17]

The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [19]
Air [20]
Biodiversity [21]
Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [26]
Policy [27]
Pollution [8]
Waste [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Wildlife [30]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [10]
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Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not [31]

Decades of effort to tackle the often-intractable problems of environmental injustice, supported in recent years by billions in funding, are now facing the knife under the Trump administration. The latest TipSheet provides a thumbnail history of government initiatives and why it matters, then offers a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to tell the story in your community.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [24]
Health [33]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [34]
Policy [27]
Pollution [8]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [10]
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"Trump Officials Ask Court to End Protections for a Strutting, Showy Bird" [35]

"The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune of inhabiting southern and central grasslands long sought-after for agriculture and energy development."

Biodiversity [21]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [8]
Wildlife [30]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Source: NYTimes [38], 05/09/2025
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Smoke From Climate-Fueled Wildfires Added To 1000s Of US Deaths Over 15 Years [39]

"Wildfires driven by climate change contribute to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs from wildfire smoke in the United States, according to a new study."

Air [20]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Studies [5]
Forests [41]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [8]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [42], 05/09/2025
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Asbestos Clinic Forced To Close In Montana Town Where Thousands Sickened [43]

"BILLINGS, Mont. — An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a court order to seize the clinic’s assets to pay off a judgment to the railroad BNSF."

Chemicals [22]
Disasters [40]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Source: AP [44], 05/09/2025
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"Trump Taps MAHA Influencer For Surgeon General, Replacing First Pick" [45]

"The White House pulled the nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be the surgeon general in favor of Casey Means, a key figure in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [24]
Health [33]
Journalism & Media [6]
Pollution [8]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [46], 05/09/2025
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"Radioactive Shadow Workers" [47]

"The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret"

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [48]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [8]
Waste [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [49]
Source: Sierra [50], 05/08/2025
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Study on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in NSF Funding Freeze [51]

"A doctoral candidate examining air pollution effects in mostly Black and Latino neighborhoods in Detroit was among the wave of researchers who have had federal funds halted."

Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [34]
Pollution [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 05/08/2025
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