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"Energy Star Has Emerged Stronger After Trump's EPA Tried To End It" [1]

"The Trump administration tried to end the government's Energy Star program last year, but now Congress has passed — and President Trump has signed into law — bipartisan budget legislation that has the potential to strengthen the energy efficiency program by giving it dedicated funding."

Climate Change [2]
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Energy & Fuel [5]
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Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Technology [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [12], 02/05/2026
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Trouble on the Elwha: Trump’s Budget Cuts Undermine Salmon Restoration [13]

"A staffing exodus at Olympic National Park has put salmon recovery efforts in jeopardy."

Biodiversity [14]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Government [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [18]
Source: The Revelator [19], 02/05/2026
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"A Dismantling of the Washington Post" [20]

"In a staffwide call with employees Wednesday morning, Matt Murray, the executive editor of the Washington Post, and Wayne Connell, the paper’s chief human resources officer, announced sweeping staff cuts."

Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [21]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [22], 02/05/2026
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Trump's EPA Issues Record Low Legal Actions Against Polluters: Watchdog [23]

"The Environmental Protection Agency enforces the country's environmental laws. But a new report shows the Trump EPA has initiated a record low number of actions against polluters, compared to past administrations."

Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [28], 02/05/2026
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NYC Congestion Pricing Improves Air Quality, but Trump Threatens Its Future [29]

"A toll program in New York City has resulted in environmental gains across all five boroughs. The Trump administration is seeking to end it."

Air [30]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [27]
Transportation [31]
Public [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 02/04/2026
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"EV Charging Program Faces the Axe in Budget Bill" [34]

"A budget bill moving through Congress this week would defund a 5-year-old program designed to expand electric-vehicle charging stations."

Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Technology [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 02/04/2026
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"Colorado Co-ops To Trump: Let Us Close Our Aging Coal Plant" [36]

"Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers."

Climate Change [2]
Consumer [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [27]
Technology [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Canary Media [37], 02/04/2026
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"How Iowa Has Turned Against Wind" [38]

"Facing staunch local opposition and federal roadblocks, a new wind project in Iowa is teetering on the brink, despite growing power demand."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
People & Population [26]
Technology [9]
Public [10]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 02/04/2026
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"What One Year Of Trump’s Climate Censorship Reveals" [42]

"President Donald Trump has gone beyond policy overhauls to fundamentally alter the way the government talks about climate change and the environment, limiting or outright deleting countervailing language and evidence during the first year of his second term in office."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Context [43], 02/04/2026
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"Staff Exodus, Case Gridlock: DOJ Environment Division Under Trump 2.0" [44]

"One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door, gutting the government’s capacity to defend its own energy and climate policies and kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check."

Environmental Health [25]
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Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [45]
People & Population [26]
Policy [46]
Pollution [27]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [47], 02/04/2026
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