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"New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws" [1]

"New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Technology [8]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [11], 08/05/2025
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"NOAA Officials Who Led ‘Sharpiegate’ Investigation Placed On Leave" [12]

"Two top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who led the investigation into the so-called “Sharpiegate” scandal, were placed on leave amid clashes with the Trump administration, according to a report." "The move comes days before a Senate committee votes on the nomination of Neil Jacobs, who was found to have violated the agency’s scientific integrity policy"

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Science [13]
Technology [8]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Independent [16], 08/05/2025
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Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [17]

The United States has nearly 100,000 miles of coastline and much of it is at risk of flooding. But what that inundation looks like varies widely from place to place. From storm surges to land subsidence, the latest Backgrounder details the different types of flooding and the threats they pose to coastal communities, especially sea level cities.

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Climate Change [2]
Disasters [19]
Infrastructure [6]
Journalism & Media [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [21]
California [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [27]
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"‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future" [28]

"Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [19]
Economy & Business [3]
Infrastructure [6]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [30]
Planning & Growth [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [9]
International [32]
Europe [33]
Source: YaleE360 [34], 08/04/2025
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"Trump’s EPA Puts California In Its Crosshairs With Its Proposed Car Rules" [35]

"Documents supporting the EPA’s plan to roll back vehicle emission standards reference California by name nearly 30 times. For more than 50 years, California has had special authority from the EPA to set strict tailpipe emission standards. The agency’s own analysis indicates that without California’s leadership and tax credits created under President Biden, national adoption of electric vehicles will decline and gasoline prices will increase." 

Air [36]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [39]
Technology [8]
Transportation [40]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [22]
Source: LA Times [41], 08/04/2025
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"How Flood-Ravaged Boston Took On The Climate Deniers – And Won" [42]

"As the Trump administration dismisses global heating, the coastal city is getting on with becoming one of the most climate resilient in the world. Here’s how" 

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [30]
Planning & Growth [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Source: Guardian [43], 08/04/2025
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"Enviros Are Reeling In Trump’s ‘Scorched-Earth’ Second Term" [44]

"“We just lost a decade’s worth of work,” said one green group leader." 

Activism [45]
Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Justice [47]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [48]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [49], 08/04/2025
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"Biggest US Offshore Wind Project Marches Ahead Despite Trump Attacks" [50]

"The largest planned offshore wind project in the U.S. is 60 percent complete and is on track to begin delivering electricity early next year."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [39]
Technology [8]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [23]
Source: E&E News [51], 08/04/2025
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"EPA Research Cuts Stoke Fears Over Scientific Independence" [52]

"“This is a very baffling moment in time,” said one researcher. “I never would have thought we had to advocate for science.”" 

Air [36]
Biodiversity [46]
Chemicals [53]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Studies [54]
Government [55]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [39]
Science [13]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [56], 08/04/2025
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Experts Urge Brazil's President to Veto a Law To Cut Environmental Reviews [57]

"Independent experts with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday publicly called on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to veto parts of a new law that would carve giant loopholes in the country's environmental regulations."

Agriculture [58]
Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Justice [47]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [48]
Public [9]
International [32]
South America [59]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 08/01/2025
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