After Cuts, Former NOAA Chief Scientist Says U.S. Science Risks Downgrade
"With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA."
Source: bioGraphic, 03/18/2025
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Line 5, A Trump Donor, Profiting Off A Pipeline Deal Threatening Pollution
"Donald Trump’s administration is being accused by activists of a quid pro quo as it attempts to fast-track a controversial fossil fuel pipeline proposal in Michigan that would in part be built by a donor with deep financial ties to the president."
Source: Guardian, 03/18/2025
Trump Halted Agent Orange Cleanup, Putting Hundreds of Thousands at Risk
"In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding."
Source: ProPublica, 03/18/2025
"Hope for a Trump Energy Boom Is Marred by Anxiety About Tariffs"
"Tariff threats. Growing uncertainty about the economy. And a push for much lower oil prices. For all of their bravado about U.S. energy dominance and enthusiasm for deregulation, American energy executives are beginning to worry about President Trump’s agenda."
Source: NYTimes, 03/18/2025
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
"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and confusion over the weekend, issuing, and then apparently rolling back, an announcement implying the president had rescinded his predecessor’s order creating two popular national monuments in California."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
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