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DRC Opens Gorilla Habitats And Pristine Forest To Oil And Gas Drilling Bids

"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks."

Source: Guardian, 07/31/2025

"The EU’s ‘Fantasy’ $750B Energy Promise To Trump"

"The EU has narrowly avoided a full-blown trade war with Donald Trump by pledging to buy $750 billion of U.S. oil and gas by the end of his term. But achieving that will be almost impossible."

Source: Politico, 07/31/2025

Trump Moves to Cut Chemical Safety Board, Putting Texans and Others at Risk

"Amid increasingly intense weather, the Chemical Safety Board is the lone independent agency watching over the Gulf Coast’s petrochemical corridor."

Source: Capital & Main, 07/31/2025

Resignation of Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence

"NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo “apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics.”" 

"A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence.

Source: Mother Jones, 07/31/2025

EPA Climate Rollback Based On Document Authored By 5 Climate Contrarians

"In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced." "The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change."

Source: CNN, 07/31/2025

Lapses in Enforcement by Trump's EPA May Yield Local Environment Stories

Enforcement has usually been serious business at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Now it seems many pollution laws are going unpoliced. TipSheet explains how the EPA’s own resources can help investigative reporters find violations, track regulatory actions and uncover nationwide patterns of corporate mismanagement.

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