"‘Lifesaving’ Climate Programs Are On Hold As Musk Targets USAID" [1]
"As the Trump administration moves to shutter international humanitarian aid efforts, a host of environmental and climate programs have also been impacted."

"As the Trump administration moves to shutter international humanitarian aid efforts, a host of environmental and climate programs have also been impacted."
"The Trump administration on Thursday told states it was blocking money for electric vehicle chargers, including $71 million for Washington, one of the latest steps by the White House to halt Biden-era funding. The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, known as NEVI, was set to dole out a total of $5 billion to states to build charging networks along highways. The Federal Highway Administration previously approved states’ plans for using the money."
"The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it."
"About 780 coal units, individual generators with a boiler and a turbine capable of producing electricity, have retired since 2000. And more than half of the remaining units are also slated for retirement, according to new data from the Global Energy Monitor, an organization that collects international energy data."
"The EPA on Thursday put 168 employees within its environmental justice office on administrative leave as the Trump administration executes presidential actions to roll back diversity initiatives."
"A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority."

Salvaging disappearing web pages from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fostering (and protecting) government whistleblower sources and sussing out the First Amendment’s prospects under the new attorney general at the Justice Department — the latest WatchDog Opinion scans the Trump administration’s information terrain. Plus, check out the latest actions from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ freedom of information efforts [37].
"As New Orleans readies to host Super Bowl LIX this Sunday, a volunteer ambassador program has been working to help welcome the hundreds of thousands of football fans streaming into the Big Easy. Who is sponsoring that program? Chevron, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers and a top climate polluter."
"Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/04/usaid-trump-musk-climate/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-administration-tells-states-billions-ev-charger-money-hold
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation
[19] https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/06/trump-administration-tells-states-billions-in-ev-charger-money-is-on-hold/
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-purges-climate-data-and-web-pages-groups-scramble-save-them
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[23] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04022025/todays-climate-trump-climate-data-purge-archive/
[24] https://www.sej.org/headlines/where-coal-retiring-and-hanging-us
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[26] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/06/climate/coal-plants-retirement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.2rf2.JzdtxXkfWgOi&smid=url-share
[27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-dismantles-environmental-justice-team-staff-put-leave
[28] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-agencies-begin-dismantling-environmental-justice-efforts
[29] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-prioritize-ai-lobbyists-and-staff-cuts-mission-traumatize
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[32] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/trump-epa-lee-zeldin
[33] https://www.sej.org/calendar/earth-investigations-webinar-tracking-global-oil-trade-data-and-satellite-imagery
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/other-events
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
[36] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog/press-freedom-issues-come-fore-trump-20-launches
[37] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/freedom-information/sej-speaks-foi-issues
[38] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/watchdog
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy
[41] https://www.sej.org/headlines/big-oil-and-gas-goes-long-super-bowl-greenwashing
[42] https://www.sierraclub.org/Sierra/superbowl-greenwashing-big-oil-gas-companies-spike-football-sportswashing
[43] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cows-have-been-infected-second-form-bird-flu
[44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[45] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[46] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/health/bird-flu-cattle-d11.html
[47] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national?page=198
[48] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national?page=195
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