#Environmental Policy
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🇺🇸 EPA firing 22 environmental justice staffers, union says
[USA]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to fire 22 more of its staffers, a union representing agency employees said Thursday. Justin Chen, president of AFGE Council 238, which represents EPA s...
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🇺🇸 Why farmers in California are backing a giant solar farm
[USA]
Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land… into solar farms.
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🇺🇸 Trump tests MAHA support with glyphosate move
[USA]
President Trump’s recent environmental moves have angered his "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) allies, testing the limits of the group’s support for the administration. Trump issued an executive or...
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🇺🇸 Making it rain: Why more and more countries are turning to cloud seeding
[USA]
Cloud seeding programs are now taking place in more than 50 countries across the globe, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Related: #Climate Change, #Water Security, #Technology Innovation -
🇺🇸 Jillian Michaels on Trump, RFK Jr. defense of pesticide: 'Devastating'
[USA]
Health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels on Monday rebuked President Trump’s executive order approving the use of a controversial pesticide, describing the move as "devastating." "This is actually ...
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🇺🇸 Who Is Not Funding This Antarctic Expedition?
[USA]
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong describes America’s shifting relationship with polar research amid the threat of rising sea levels.
Related: #Climate Change, #Scientific Research, #Government Funding -
🇬🇧 Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals
[United Kingdom]
<p>Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sf...
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🇺🇸 MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’
[USA]
President Trump’s executive order aimed at spurring production of a pesticide has infuriated leaders of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement.
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🇬🇧 Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits
[United Kingdom]
<p>President’s move, which also seeks ‘immunity’ for makers, faces backlash from health advocates and Maha coalition</p><p>Donald Trump has signed <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-acti...
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🇺🇸 Analysis-US automakers caught in crossfire of Trump, California EV battle
[USA]
Related: #Automotive Industry, #Federalism
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🇺🇸 US states sue Trump administration to unlock funding for clean energy projects
[USA]
Related: #Federal-State Relations, #Energy Transition
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🇺🇸 Trump and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore feud over Potomac River sewage spill
[USA]
President Trump blasted Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on social media over the handling of a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River in January. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi has more.
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🇺🇸 California, Connecticut preparing ’attack’ against Trump’s repeal of basis of US climate regulation
[USA]
Related: #Federal-State Relations, #Legal Challenges
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🇺🇸 Kenya launches a carbon registry to boost climate finance and credibility
[USA]
Kenya has launched its first national carbon registry, a centralized system to track carbon credit projects, prevent double counting and strengthen transparency in climate markets
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🇺🇸 With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
[USA]
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
Related: #Automotive Industry, #Deregulation -
🇺🇸 Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Cars
[USA]
Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights.
Related: #Automotive Industry, #Regulatory Changes -
🇬🇧 Trump to repeal ruling allowing regulation of planet-heating gases
[United Kingdom]
<p>Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health</p><p>In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump admini...
Related: #Deregulation, #Politics -
🇺🇸 Trump ends Obama-era restrictions on commercial fishing in protected area
[USA]
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation reopening a huge swath of the Atlantic to commercial fishing
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🇺🇸 MAHA has reshaped health policy. Now it's working on environmental rules
[USA]
MAHA activists who want to hold corporations accountable for harming Americans’ health have found an unlikely ally in a Republican-led Environmental Protection Agency that has traditionally supp...
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🇺🇸 Trump executive order seeks to speed up rebuilding of homes destroyed by Los Angeles wildfires
[USA]
President Donald Trump says he has signed an executive order that seeks to speed up reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes destroyed by the Los Angeles area wildfires in 2025
Related: #Disaster Recovery, #Government Efficiency, #Housing Crisis