Environmental Groups Sound Alarm As Fossil Fuel Lobby Pushes For Immunity
"Nearly 200 groups urge Congress to reject fossil fuel industry immunity efforts, fearing long-term damage to climate lawsuits"
Source: Guardian, 03/18/2025
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"Confusion Clouds The Fate Of Two New California Monuments"
"The Trump administration touched off consternation and confusion over the weekend, issuing, and then apparently rolling back, an announcement implying the president had rescinded his predecessor’s order creating two popular national monuments in California."
Source: LA Times, 03/17/2025
"Farmers Feeling the Pain After Conservation Funding Frozen"
"The Trump administration, with DOGE, is pulling the rug from under growers and producers across the country"
Source: Sierra, 03/17/2025
"Decision To Axe Advisory Groups Could Spell Trouble For US Food Safety"
"A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, critics fear, particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors."
Source: The New Lede, 03/17/2025
Trump Admin Voids Permit for New Jersey Wind Farm Trump Opposes
"A critical permit for an offshore wind farm planned near the New Jersey Shore has been invalidated by an administrative appeals board, seven weeks after President Donald Trump declared he hoped the project was “dead and gone.”
Source: Bloomberg, 03/17/2025
Some US Scientists Stick with the IPCC Despite Trump Pullout
"Despite a series of directives from the Trump administration aimed at disengaging the U.S. government from international climate collaboration, five U.S. scientists are part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s team of 100 experts from 50 countries who met in Osaka, Japan, this week to start writing a report about global warming and cities that is due in 2027."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/17/2025
"Reality Check: Hurdles Await EPA’s Deregulatory Spree"
"The Trump administration won’t have an easy time legally defending its massive regulatory rollback. It could still cause major damage."
Source: E&E News, 03/17/2025
"Judge Orders EPA To Rehire Fired Employees"
"EPA is now among the agencies facing court orders to reinstate “probationary” employees who were terminated as part of President Donald Trump’s endeavor to shrink the federal government."
Source: E&E News, 03/17/2025
"Trump Administration Plans To Give Dirty US Coal Plants A Reprieve On Soot"
"President Donald Trump's administration intends to overturn pollution rules aimed at reducing soot and greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. coal-fired power plants in a move intended to help keep some of the nation's dirtiest plants operational."
Source: Reuters, 03/14/2025
Ducks, Once A Conservation Bright Spot, Now Declining In US: New Report
"At least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years, according to a new report published Thursday. Among the birds showing the steepest declines are Allen’s hummingbirds, Florida scrub jays, golden-cheeked warblers, tricolored blackbirds and yellow-billed magpies."
Source: AP, 03/14/2025
