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Environmental Policies Upended, Climate Plans a Casualty As Trump Takes Power [1]

In the overview summary for our “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy” special report, we foresee the very real prospect that environmental protection and energy policies in place, in some cases, for decades could swiftly be swept aside by the Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress. Read our analysis [1], plus look back at more than three dozen stories gathered together in our ninth annual guide [2].

SEJ Publication Types: 
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Health [9]
Infrastructure [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Policy [13]
Pollution [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [15]
International [16]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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Staff At Some Agencies Instructed Not To Speak To Congress, Says Democrat [18]

"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 [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [19], 02/24/2025
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The Forgotten Victims of Hidalgo [20]

Contaminated water sickened thousands of residents near Mexico City for 40 years — even as officials knew they were being poisoned. Then, an investigative news team turned its attention to the polluted region, and produced multiple video and text versions of an award-winning feature focused on the residents’ health, poverty and more. Read a revealing Q&A with investigative producer Carlos Carabaña in the new Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [22]
Environmental Justice [6]
Government [8]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [14]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region: 
International [16]
Mexico [26]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [27]

"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 [4]
Diversity [28]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters" [31]

"Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent."

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [23]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [34], 02/21/2025
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"How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick" [35]

"Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations."

Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 02/20/2025
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"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs" [39]

"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta” of environmental laws."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [29]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [41], 02/20/2025
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"FEMA Restricts Media Communications" [42]

"The agency’s acting administrator directed employees to not engage with the media without “prior authorization.”"

Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [43], 02/19/2025
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"High-Ranking D.C. Federal Prosecutor Resigns Over Order To Freeze EPA Funds" [44]

"The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with an urgent Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to the official’s resignation letter and two people familiar with the matter."

Activism [45]
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [46], 02/19/2025
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"Park Service Deletes Trans References On Stonewall Inn Monument Page" [47]

"The National Park Service has removed transgender references from its website commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, erasing transgender activists such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were central to the movement for LGBTQ+ rights."

Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [48], 02/18/2025
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