"Trump Ally Seeks To Topple Pipeline Safety Enforcement"
"The pipeline company led by President Donald Trump’s biggest energy donor is trying to upend the way the federal government enforces pipeline safety law."
Source: E&E News, 03/27/2025
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GOPers Want To Reverse Ban On TCE. It Causes Defects, Cancer and Parkinson’s
"The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office."
Source: ProPublica, 03/27/2025"Trump Administration Moves To Shutter Mine Safety Offices In Coal Country"
"Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk."
Source: Grist, 03/27/2025"Clean Air Advocates Fear Rubber Stamp of State Emission Plans"
"The Trump administration vowed to rid the EPA of a backlog of decisions on state plans to manage air pollution. Now advocates wonder if faster analysis raises the risk that the plans may not effectively mitigate dirty air."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/27/2025Group Targets Law Prof Who Inspired Laws to Hold Fossil Industry Accountable
"A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage."
Source: NYTimes, 03/27/2025"Why Will It Take DOGE Three Years To Respond To A Simple FOIA?"
"District Judge Christopher Cooper recently found that the Department of Government Efficiency is “likely covered” by the Freedom of Information Act, and, because it has “substantial authority independent of the President,” cannot hide its records in the Presidential Records Act’s giant loopholes. This is good news, but it’s not a guarantee DOGE’s records will soon see the light of day."
Source: Freedom of Press Foundation, 03/27/2025Trump’s FEMA Deleted A New Extreme Weather Risk Tool. We Recreated It
"The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted"
Source: Guardian, 03/27/2025EPA Knew It Wrongfully Canceled Dozens Of Environmental Grants: Documents
"Trump officials knew their legal justification for terminating dozens of Environmental Protection Agency grants was flawed, according to documents and internal emails reviewed by The Washington Post."
Source: Washington Post, 03/26/2025"Trump Wants States To Handle Disasters. States Aren't Prepared"
"President Trump has signed an executive order directing state and local governments to "play a more active and significant role" in preparing for disasters. For months, Trump has said he's considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the country's disaster response arm."
Source: NPR, 03/26/2025Utilities Don't Want To Clean Up Their Toxic Coal Ash. EPA Grants Their Wish.
"Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide."
Source: Grist, 03/26/2025"Republicans Helped Some Environment Programs Dodge DOGE"
"Republican lawmakers have succeeded in back-channeling with Trump officials to save energy and environment programs and workers from the wrath of Elon Musk."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2025Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Use More Energy Than Most States
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"As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options. But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require enormous amounts of energy, just as Texas fights to keep up with the rapidly growing power demands of a high-tech industrial buildout."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025EPA Cuts Grants For Measuring and Reducing Construction Material Emissions
"The Trump administration has eviscerated a grant program designed to make U.S. industry cleaner and more competitive by improving measurement of emissions from building materials. The Environmental Protection Agency says it has canceled $116 million in grants to 21 recipients that include universities and trade groups, according to information obtained by the Sierra Club through a public records request."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025Despite Staff and Budget Cuts, NOAA Issues Critical Drought Warnings
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although battered by Trump administration attempts to impose massive staff and budget cuts on the agency, nevertheless continues to publish critical climate information, including some dire drought warnings in the spring outlook published March 20 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025"Supreme Court Weighs Which Courts Can Hear Clean Air Act Disputes"
"The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of D.C. — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."
Source: The Hill, 03/26/2025
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