"The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”"
Feb. 21, 2025 — The Society of Environmental Journalists joined more than 40 organizations to condemn the campaign underway in Washington to penalize independent reporting on the government and to call on the Trump administration to lift its ban on The Associated Press.
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"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."
"From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide."
"After firing 200 probationary employees this weekend, FEMA was directed “to make a list” of anyone who worked on climate or equity."
"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"
"Enbridge Energy’s plans to build a protective tunnel around an aging pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes can continue, a Michigan appeals court ruled."
"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."
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