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"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035" [1]

"In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
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Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [10], 06/13/2025
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"California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air" [11]

"The state’s latest lawsuit charges the administration with illegally targeting its authority to set tougher vehicle-emission standards. Ten attorneys general from states that follow those rules joined the suit."

Air [12]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [15]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
California [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 06/13/2025
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"Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales" [18]

"At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference."

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [8]
International [23]
Australia & Oceania [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 06/12/2025
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Whistleblower Who Leaked Plans To Build Golf Courses In Florida Parks Sues [26]

"A former worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in Florida state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit."

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: AP [28], 06/12/2025
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Phase-Out of FEMA On Course, Trump Says, Raising Worries About Disaster Aid [29]

"The Trump administration will begin dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency later this year, the president announced on Tuesday, setting a tight timeframe for a breakup that many experts warned would likely harm the nation’s ability to respond to disasters."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [31]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 06/12/2025
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"Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas" [33]

"Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants in Texas in the next few years amid a race to meet enormous electrical demand from energy-hungry industries, according to a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit."

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Infrastructure [6]
Pollution [14]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [34]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 06/12/2025
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"Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the G.O.P. Tax Bill" [36]

"Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Technology [37]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [38], 06/12/2025
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EPA Says Power Plant Carbon Emissions Aren’t Dangerous. Scientists Disagree. [39]

The Trump EPA on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution. The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation.

Chemicals [40]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [14]
Science [41]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [42], 06/12/2025
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"EPA Moves To Repeal Limits On Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Power Plants" [43]

"The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide." 

Air [12]
Chemicals [40]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [14]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [44], 06/12/2025
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"Trump’s Second Term Is Creating ‘A Limbo Moment’ For US Battery Recyclers" [45]

"The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it." 

Chemicals [40]
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Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
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Source: Grist [46], 06/11/2025
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