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As Trump Purges Climate Data and Web Pages, Groups Scramble To Save Them [1]

"The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it."

Activism [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [8], 02/07/2025
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"Trump Dismantles Environmental Justice Team, Staff Put on Leave" [9]

"The EPA on Thursday put 168 employees within its environmental justice office on administrative leave as the Trump administration executes presidential actions to roll back diversity initiatives."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 02/07/2025
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"EPA To Prioritize AI, Lobbyists And Staff Cuts In ‘Mission To Traumatize’" [16]

"A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [19], 02/07/2025
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Press Freedom Issues Come to Fore As Trump 2.0 Launches [20]

Salvaging disappearing web pages from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fostering (and protecting) government whistleblower sources and sussing out the First Amendment’s prospects under the new attorney general at the Justice Department — the latest WatchDog Opinion scans the Trump administration’s information terrain. Plus, check out the latest actions from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ freedom of information efforts [21].

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Environmental Justice [13]
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"Here’s Every Biden-Era Energy Loan — Now All Under Threat From Trump" [25]

"The DOE Loan Programs Office gave out $107 billion to 53 projects, from EV factories to a nuclear-plant restart. But the fate of the loans is unclear under Trump."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Canary Media [27], 02/06/2025
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"Trump’s FEMA Chief Assailed The Agency With Untruths" [28]

"Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina."

Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [30], 02/06/2025
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Burgum Directive Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels [31]

"National monuments, migratory birds, endangered and threatened species: Some of the nation’s most vulnerable natural resources are in jeopardy after Doug Burgum issued—on his first full day as secretary of the Department of the Interior—a seven-page directive weakening their protections to further fossil fuel development."

Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [34]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 02/06/2025
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"Republicans Move To Repeal Lead Limits Imposed By Biden-Era Rules" [36]

"Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are attempting to repeal the Biden administration’s groundbreaking rules that require all the country’s lead pipes to be replaced over the next 13 years and lower the limit on lead in water."

Chemicals [37]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [39], 02/06/2025
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DOGE Staffers Enter NOAA Headquarters And Incite Reports Of Cuts And Threats [40]

"Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [3]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Government [23]
Science [42]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [43], 02/06/2025
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"Mountain Valley Pipeline Files Application To Build Southgate Extension" [44]

"Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC filed with regulators Monday official requests to build its revised Southgate extension project from Southwest Virginia into North Carolina." "The company’s proposal to build more than 30 miles of natural gas pipeline has worried environmental advocates, who believe it could harm nearby residents."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: Inside Climate News [47], 02/05/2025
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