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Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel? [1]

"Buffeted by PFAS-emitting industries, Fayetteville could soon be home to a financially troubled company that wants to turn tons of plastic waste into diesel fuel using a polluting, energy-intensive process called pyrolysis."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [11], 03/05/2025
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"FBI Takes Up EPA Probe Amid Pushback From Judge, Prosecutors" [12]

"FBI agents this week questioned Environmental Protection Agency employees regarding a Biden administration grant program for climate and clean-energy projects, escalating a criminal probe that already caused one veteran prosecutor to resign, according to two people familiar with the matter."

Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [14], 03/04/2025
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"Trump May Rue Firing Experts When Environmental Rollbacks Land In Court" [15]

"Amid spending freezes and policy rollbacks from Donald Trump, environmental advocacy groups are gearing up for a long series of legal showdowns with the administration."

Activism [16]
Biodiversity [17]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [19], 03/04/2025
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‘They’re Back’ — Veteran Journalists on Braving the Specter of Trump’s Return [20]

How can environmental reporters best cover the upheavals of a second Trump administration? SEJournal commissioned a special analysis to draw on the experience of reporters who were there to chronicle the first. Contributing editor Jennifer Weeks spoke to more than half a dozen news veterans of Trump’s earlier environmental and energy policy initiatives, with insights and tips on how to handle what’s ahead.

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Features [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [22]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [26]
Policy [27]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [28]
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"Trump Team’s Endgame: Gut EPA" [29]

"President Donald Trump appears to welcome the EPA boss’ plan to cut most of the agency’s workforce."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [31], 02/28/2025
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"EPA Urges White House To Strike Down Landmark Climate Finding" [32]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [33]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
International [34]
Source: Washington Post [35], 02/27/2025
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She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. [36]

"Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Science [38]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [39], 02/27/2025
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"Trump: EPA Boss Expects To Cut 65 Percent Of Staff" [40]

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin expects to cut most of that agency’s staff, President Donald Trump said Wednesday as he and his administration plow ahead with dramatic reductions to the federal workforce."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [41], 02/27/2025
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"The ‘Horror Story’ of Hazardous Waste in a Small Pennsylvania Town" [42]

"An EPA investigation confirmed residents’ worst fears about operations at an industrial landfill. What happens next is all too uncertain."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [43]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Waste [44]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 02/26/2025
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"Legal Snags Could Foil Trump’s Climate And Air Pollution Rollbacks" [47]

"The president’s deregulatory blitz might crash into the same repetitive setback from his first term: court defeats stemming from procedural fumbles."

Air [22]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [48], 02/26/2025
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