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"Summer Staffing Crunch Hits National Parks After Trump Cuts" [1]

"At Yosemite National Park in California, one of the oldest and most popular U.S. natural preserves, the workforce is stretched so thin this season that nearly all staffers, even scientists, are required to take turns cleaning campground toilets, according to two people familiar with conditions there."

Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Infrastructure [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
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Waste [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Reuters [11], 06/11/2025
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"In Georgia, Republicans Vote to Kill Green Jobs but Face Little Fallout" [12]

"In Cedartown, Ga., a solar recycling company’s plan to hire 1,200 people could be upended by Republicans in Congress." 

Climate Change [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [7]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 06/09/2025
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Fearing Radioactive Waste, Pa. Community Fights to Stop Landfill Re-Opening [18]

"For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse. But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears."

Activism [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [2]
Infrastructure [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 06/04/2025
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"Trump Signs Executive Orders To Boost Nuclear Power, Speed Up Approvals" [24]

"President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly unlikely to reach."

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
California [26]
Source: AP [27], 05/27/2025
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Plea Deal Shutters Watts Recycling Plant Accused Of Spewing Toxics At School [28]

"A South L.A. recycling plant that has been accused of spewing toxic waste and metal projectiles onto the grounds of Jordan High School will be permanently shut down, according to a plea deal agreed to by the plant’s owners in court Tuesday."

Chemicals [29]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [31]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
California [26]
Source: LA Times [32], 05/22/2025
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"First US Utility Seeks Permit For A Small Nuclear Reactor" [33]

"For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor."

Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Technology [34]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: AP [35], 05/21/2025
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Alabama Power Faces Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash [36]

"Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama groundwater, records show."

Chemicals [29]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [20]
Infrastructure [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 05/21/2025
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Doge Cuts Could Wreck The Cleanup Of Wartime Nuclear Waste At Hanford, Wa. [39]

"Hanford made the plutonium for US atomic bombs, and its radioactive waste must be dealt with. Enter Elon Musk"

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [2]
Natural Resources [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Pollution [31]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 05/20/2025
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"3M to Pay New Jersey Up to $450 Million for Drinking-Water Contamination" [42]

"3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated the state with harmful “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, affecting drinking water."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [31]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 05/14/2025
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [46]

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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Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Policy [51]
Pollution [31]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [37]
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