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"Trump Administration Drops Work On Stronger Building Codes For Disasters" [1]

"For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, the Trump Administration has ordered that to stop, according to people involved with the work."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
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Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Technology [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NPR [13], 02/24/2025
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Trump Wants the Federal Government to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations [14]

"The Trump administration has directed a federal agency to disconnect its electric vehicle charging stations, part of the president’s agenda to roll back progress on EVs and clean energy."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Transportation [16]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 02/24/2025
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Fla. Plan to Build Road With Radioactive Waste Prompts Suit Against the EPA [18]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year."

Agriculture [19]
Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [21]
Pollution [22]
Transportation [16]
Waste [23]
Public [11]
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Source: Inside Climate News [25], 02/24/2025
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Staff At Some Agencies Instructed Not To Speak To Congress, Says Democrat [26]

"Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent several letters Thursday to various federal agency heads seeking answers regarding directives banning employees from speaking to Congress."

Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [28]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: The Hill [30], 02/24/2025
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"Trump’s Funding Freeze Creates Chaos and Financial Distress for Farmers" [31]

"Efforts to transition farms to regenerative agriculture are stalled, and the path forward is unclear."

Agriculture [19]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Politics [5]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Civil Eats [33], 02/24/2025
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"Outcry As Trump Withdraws Support For Research That Mentions ‘Climate’" [34]

"The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”"

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Science [35]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 02/24/2025
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [38]

"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."

Climate Change [2]
Diversity [39]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [40]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 02/21/2025
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"FEMA Email: Firings Will Affect ‘Majority Of Our Staff’" [42]

"After firing 200 probationary employees this weekend, FEMA was directed “to make a list” of anyone who worked on climate or equity."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [43]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [44], 02/21/2025
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"Trump’s Funding Freeze Is Wreaking Havoc On Climate Science" [45]

"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [40]
Science [35]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
International [36]
Source: Grist [46], 02/21/2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets [47]

"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Science [35]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Europe [48]
Source: DeSmog [49], 02/21/2025
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