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"Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump" [1]

"The Trump administration has filed far fewer civil cases accusing companies of violating environmental rules than its predecessors, an analysis of federal data shows."

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Climate Change [3]
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Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 08/11/2025
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"Judge Stops Hazardous Waste Shipments To Michigan Landfill From Five States" [15]

"A judge has stopped government contractors in five states from sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill after a year of legal challenges by Detroit-area communities concerned about possible environmental impacts."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [16]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [17]
Source: AP [18], 08/08/2025
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"Ohio Finally Ends Subsidies For Two Scandal-Linked Coal Plants" [19]

"After six years and more than a half billion dollars in consumer costs, Ohio utility customers will no longer have to subsidize two 1950s-era coal plants in the state."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [17]
Source: Canary Media [20], 08/08/2025
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After Deep Cuts, National Weather Service Gets OK To Fill Up To 450 Jobs [21]

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing, the Trump administration confirmed Wednesday."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Politics [9]
Government [23]
People & Population [24]
Science [25]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [28], 08/08/2025
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"RFK Jr. Announces End To Some mRNA Contracts, Including For Flu, Covid" [29]

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday a crackdown on mRNA vaccine technology and research to develop it, following months of pressure from anti-vaccine activists."

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Environmental Health [7]
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Health [30]
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People & Population [24]
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Public [12]
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Source: Washington Post [31], 08/08/2025
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DOE Boss Says Trump Admin May Alter Past National Climate Assessments [32]

"Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said officials are reviewing previously published National Climate Assessments and may update them. Earlier this year, the Trump administration fired more than 400 scientists working on the next federal climate report and removed the website that housed the previous ones."

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Science [25]
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National (U.S.) [13]
Source: LA Times [34], 08/08/2025
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"National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science" [35]

"The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [7]
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Science [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 08/08/2025
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Class-Action Suit Would Force EPA To Reinstate $3bn Climate Justice Program [37]

"Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants" 

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [38], 08/07/2025
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"Burgum Nixes ‘Thoughtless’ Biden Approval Of Idaho Wind Farm" [39]

"The Interior Department reversed the Biden-era approval of a contentious wind project in southern Idaho on Wednesday, part of a broader Trump administration effort to shift development on public lands away from renewable energy."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [9]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Source: E&E News [42], 08/07/2025
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"At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators" [43]

"The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by a number of environmental hazards like hurricanes, intense heat and even wildfires."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
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Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [44]
People & Population [24]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [45]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [12]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: NYTimes [47], 08/07/2025
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