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‘People Will Die’ — Stories Behind Trump Budget Bill [1]

The Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but, especially in its unraveling of efforts to weave environmental and climate justice into American society, argues the new Voices of Environmental Justice. In her latest column, writer Yessenia Funes calls on journalists to report its ramifications not just for the planet but for the most vulnerable people living on it. Here are key stories to start with.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Voices of Environmental Justice [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [5]
Climate Change [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Policy [17]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility: 
Public [24]
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"White House Delays Public Release Of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Strategy" [25]

"Industry will have to wait longer for the report, which is expected to give the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases."

Activism [3]
Consumer [26]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [11]
Health [12]
People & Population [16]
Science [27]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Politico [28], 08/14/2025
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"Sierra Club Staff Says Boss’s Ouster Is ‘A Relief’" [29]

"Ben Jealous is officially out as the Sierra Club’s boss after two turbulent years marked by infighting and drama inside the green group."

Activism [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [16]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [30], 08/13/2025
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"Green Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Report Downplaying Climate Damage" [31]

"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science."

Activism [3]
Climate Change [6]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [33]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Science [27]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [34], 08/13/2025
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"The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River" [35]

"More than 40 years after the Passaic River was declared a Superfund site, cancer-causing toxins still line its bottom. While residents drink from its waters, cleanup stalls under corporate resistance and potential federal budget cuts."

Activism [3]
Chemicals [5]
Consumer [26]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 08/11/2025
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"Popular E.P.A. Database Is in Limbo Amid Science Cuts" [38]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said it would stop updating research that hundreds of companies use to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions after the agency suspended the database’s creator because he had signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s approach to scientific research."

Activism [3]
Climate Change [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [33]
Journalism & Media [14]
Pollution [18]
Science [27]
Technology [39]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [40], 08/11/2025
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August 12, 2025

Finding Your Voice in Longterm Storytelling: A Conversation With David Walter Banks [41]

Vital Impacts' online talk at 11 a.m. ET is with David Walter Banks who is known for his blend of stylized portraiture, documentary work and long-term storytelling. You'll be taken behind the scenes of "Trembling Earth," his three-year project focused on protecting Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.

Other Events [42]
Visibility: 
Public [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Journalism & Media [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]

"Enviros Are Reeling In Trump’s ‘Scorched-Earth’ Second Term" [43]

"“We just lost a decade’s worth of work,” said one green group leader." 

Activism [3]
Biodiversity [44]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [26]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [45]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [46]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [47], 08/04/2025
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Charge: Perdue Breaking Law By Improperly Disposing Of PFAS-Laced Waste [48]

"In the latest move to combat contamination of a Maryland community's drinking water,  two Salisbury residents allege Perdue Agribusiness is violating federal law by failing to properly dispose of waste that contains toxic PFAS chemicals, according to a lawsuit filed July 25."

Activism [3]
Agriculture [49]
Chemicals [5]
Environmental Health [8]
Food [50]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [51]
Source: The New Lede [52], 08/01/2025
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Resignation of Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence [53]

"NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo “apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics.”" 

"A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence.

Activism [3]
Climate Change [6]
Economy & Business [54]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
People & Population [16]
Public [24]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Mother Jones [56], 07/31/2025
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