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"Records Show Industry Sway On Toxic Emissions Rollback" [1]

"In a glimpse at the Trump administration’s tilt toward polluting industries, EPA embraced the aid of manufacturers in easing a new rule."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [8]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [12], 08/22/2025
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RFK Jr. Vowed To Find Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research To Do That. [13]

"While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals, including some linked to the condition."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [8]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: ProPublica [15], 08/21/2025
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"Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn’t Want to Hear It." [16]

"It is lashing out at the world’s leading energy organization for saying oil and gas use could start declining as the world pivots to cleaner alternatives."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [18]
Source: NYTimes [19], 08/20/2025
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"Trump Team Readies More Attacks On Mainstream Climate Science" [20]

"The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled." 

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [21]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [22], 08/20/2025
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White House Draft Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations [23]

"A highly anticipated White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a draft of the document that was reviewed by The New York Times."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [24]
Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [26], 08/19/2025
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Saving Big Cats From Humans [27]

As expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula encroaches on prime wildlife habitat, big cats find it harder to avoid people, and many wind up dead. In this Inside Story Q&A, Liza Gross of Inside Climate News describes how she and photographer/editor Michael Kodas worked with a local cougar protection team to track a family of big cats to their den and through the area.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [28]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [24]
Forests [30]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [14]
Science [9]
Wildlife [31]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [32]
Visibility: 
Public [10]
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EPA Open Data Plan Is Worth Putting Into Action [33]

Public databases — a boon to good environmental reporting — have long been a priority for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as evidenced in its just-published “open data plan.” But as an analysis in the latest Reporter’s Toolbox notes, that pioneering approach may succumb to Trump 2.0 policies. What’s at stake and what’s already being lost.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [34]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [35]
Journalism & Media [21]
Policy [36]
Science [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility: 
Public [10]
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Duffy Says NASA Will Dump Climate Science, Focus Only On Space Exploration [37]

"Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [6]
Science [9]
Technology [38]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [39], 08/15/2025
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"White House Delays Public Release Of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Strategy" [40]

"Industry will have to wait longer for the report, which is expected to give the government’s response to childhood chronic diseases."

Activism [41]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [35]
Health [25]
People & Population [14]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Politico [43], 08/14/2025
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"Green Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Report Downplaying Climate Damage" [44]

"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science."

Activism [41]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [24]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [46], 08/13/2025
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