"Dems Float Dueling CR With Energy, Environment Language"
"Republicans rejected Democrats’ counteroffer on government funding before even seeing it."
Source: E&E News, 09/22/2025
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Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Pushes Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
"President Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the United States, he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal."
Source: NYTimes, 08/28/2025
Trump Blames Renewables For Rising Electricity Prices. Experts Disagree.
"With electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, President Donald Trump has lashed out at renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, blaming them for skyrocketing energy costs. ... Energy analysts say renewable sources have little to do with recent price hikes, which are based on increased demand, aging infrastructure and increasingly extreme weather events such as wildfires that are exacerbated by climate change."
Source: AP, 08/22/2025
GOP Looks To Make A U-Turn On Electric Vehicles For The Postal Service
"A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding."
Source: AP, 08/19/2025
"Trump’s Push To Mine Deep-Sea Battery Metals Draws Ire From Allies"
"The Trump administration is on a rogue quest to mine critical minerals from the ocean floor — and recent global negotiations over the fate of deep-sea mining reveal just how alone the U.S. is on the issue."
Source: Canary Media, 08/13/2025
"Trump’s EPA Puts California In Its Crosshairs With Its Proposed Car Rules"
"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."
Source: LA Times, 08/04/2025
"E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change"
"The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan."
Source: NYTimes, 07/24/2025
"DOE Defies Congress By Shifting Funds From Wind, Solar, EVs"
"The Trump administration is diverting federal funds away from the Energy Department’s wind, solar and electric vehicles programs, despite the spending levels set under the current congressionally passed budget, according to a document posted on the agency’s website."
Source: The Hill, 07/11/2025
Reined In By Cost And Hostile President, Calif. Ponders Next Clean Air Move
"With 7 of its most ambitious rules for cars, trucks and trains repealed, California officials now must find new ways to clean up the nation’s worst air pollution. But officials face growing pushback about affordability and costs."
Source: CalMatters, 07/10/2025
"Poisoned Water And Scarred Hills"
"When you stand on the edge of Bayan Obo, all you see is an expanse of scarred grey earth carved into the grasslands of Inner Mongolia in northern China. Dark dust clouds rise from deep craters where the earth’s crust has been sliced away over decades in a search of modern treasure."
Source: BBC News, 07/08/2025
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