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Senator Pushed to Cut Fire Aircraft Inspections His Firm Flunked [1]

“U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy previously ran an aerial firefighting company. After joining Congress, he proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft. The same month a draft of his plan to end Forest Service inspections leaked, an aircraft at his former company failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing.”

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Disasters [3]
Government [4]
Transportation [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: ProPublica [9], 06/10/2026
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Trump DOJ Killed Criminal Probe of GOP Senator’s Coal Firms [10]

“EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them ‘pencils down.’”

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [4]
Health [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Policy [20]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: ProPublica [23], 06/10/2026
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Arizona Lake Closes Indefinitely to Visitors After All of Its Fish Die [24]

“Wildlife department says drought conditions and water released from dam led to ‘major fish kill’ at San Carlos Lake.”

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [3]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Food [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [6]
Wildlife [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: The Guardian [30], 06/09/2026
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‘Severe’ Stress on Oceans as Rate of Sea Level Rise Doubles in 10 Years, UN Warns [31]

“Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says.”

Climate Change [11]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Food [26]
Natural Resources [19]
Policy [20]
Pollution [21]
Science [32]
Water & Oceans [6]
Wildlife [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [33]
Source: The Guardian [34], 06/09/2026
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White House Plans to Vet Public Grants for ‘American Values’ Spark Broad Alarm [35]

“New proposal quietly published last week would amount to ‘devastating blow’ for science, experts warn.”

Government [4]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Policy [20]
Science [32]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Guardian [37], 06/09/2026
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U.S. Revokes Endangered Species Listing for Permian Basin Lizard, Resolves Texas Attorney General Lawsuit [38]

“The Trump administration agreed to strip endangered ​species protection from a lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United ‌States, settling a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.”

Biodiversity [39]
Conflict/Corruption [40]
Government [4]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Policy [20]
Wildlife [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: Reuters [41], 06/09/2026
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Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action [42]

“For decades, a landfill has towered over the town of Brookhaven. A groundwater contamination plume has spread beneath nearby properties.”

Activism [43]
Conflict/Corruption [40]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Health [17]
Pollution [21]
Waste [44]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 06/09/2026
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EPA’s HFC Delay Tests Trump’s Made in America Agenda [47]

“The agency’s regulatory rollback for grocery refrigerators has sparked a backlash from U.S. manufacturers.”

Chemicals [48]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [49]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [4]
Health [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Policy [20]
Pollution [21]
Technology [50]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [51], 06/09/2026
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MAHA’s CAFO Conundrum [52]

“While the movement has long railed against harmful pesticides — such as glyphosate and paraquat — that are sprayed on crops and linked to cancers and other health ills, there is mounting evidence that CAFOs, which generate massive amounts of manure, are linked to some of these same health problems, including increased cancer rates.”

Agriculture [53]
Consumer [49]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Food [26]
Government [4]
Health [17]
Policy [20]
Wildlife [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The New Lede [54], 06/09/2026
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Why Are Blue States Scapegoating Energy Efficiency? [55]

“A handful of Democratic-led states are targeting energy-efficiency programs in an attempt to provide relief on soaring utility bills. It’s surprising, given the broad support energy-efficiency programs have among Democrats — and the fact that these incentives produce energy savings that benefit both the climate and all consumers. The short-term savings may be tempting, advocates say, but chasing them is misguided."
 

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Energy & Fuel [13]
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Government [4]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Canary Media [56], 06/09/2026
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