Former Trump Interior Secretary Rakes In Corporate Cash At New Lobbying Firm
"David Bernhardt's new firm is making big bucks lobbying for major energy corporations, agricultural giants and more."
Source: Public Domain, 09/10/2025
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"Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe"
"U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is in Europe this week to lobby for oil and gas, and some European policy experts say his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025
"AP Finds Major Disaster Declarations Are Taking Longer Under Trump"
"Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found."
Source: AP, 09/10/2025
Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Biogas Industrial Hog Farms
"N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/09/2025
"Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide"
"The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage."
Source: NYTimes, 09/09/2025
"Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change"
"Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”"
Source: NYTimes, 09/09/2025
"EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS"
"Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides."
Source: Civil Eats, 09/09/2025
"Trump Plan To Move USDA Spurs Brain Drain Fears"
"A Trump administration plan to remove thousands of agriculture employees from Washington, D.C., is raising concerns among economists, who fear that such a move could erode expertise in a workforce reluctant to relocate."
Source: The Hill, 09/09/2025
"DC Circuit Reverses EPA Removal of Sudden Emission Protections"
"The EPA couldn’t justify scaling back startup, shutdown, and malfunction liability shields in Title V air permitting rules, according to a Friday judgment from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/09/2025
"Trump Wants Mining. Federal Mine Safety Workers Are On The Chopping Block."
"Federal scientists and engineers working to prevent deadly disasters and the spread of disease in miners could soon lose their jobs, even as President Donald Trump moves to supercharge U.S. production of coal and critical minerals."
Source: E&E News, 09/08/2025
