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"The Trump administration has blocked work that is central to major international climate change research, and barred federal scientists and diplomats from attending a key global climate event in China this week, according to three officials close to the situation who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly."
"The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”"
"Efforts to transition farms to regenerative agriculture are stalled, and the path forward is unclear."
"Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent several letters Thursday to various federal agency heads seeking answers regarding directives banning employees from speaking to Congress."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year."
"The Trump administration has directed a federal agency to disconnect its electric vehicle charging stations, part of the president’s agenda to roll back progress on EVs and clean energy."
"For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, the Trump Administration has ordered that to stop, according to people involved with the work."
"Earlier this week dozens of news organizations signed two separate letters to the White House that urged the Trump administration to reverse a policy barring Associated Press journalists from official events."
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended his firing of more than 1,000 park rangers as an effort to shrink government to the “right size,” in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday."
"Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent."
"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."
"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"
"After firing 200 probationary employees this weekend, FEMA was directed “to make a list” of anyone who worked on climate or equity."
"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."
"President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to help finance repairs to mass transit."
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