Environmental Politics

"What One Year Of Trump’s Climate Censorship Reveals"

"President Donald Trump has gone beyond policy overhauls to fundamentally alter the way the government talks about climate change and the environment, limiting or outright deleting countervailing language and evidence during the first year of his second term in office."

Source: Context, 02/04/2026

"Staff Exodus, Case Gridlock: DOJ Environment Division Under Trump 2.0"

"One year after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, at least a third of the lawyers on staff at the Justice Department’s environment division have walked out the door, gutting the government’s capacity to defend its own energy and climate policies and kneecapping its power to keep polluters in check."

Source: E&E News, 02/04/2026

"Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not."

"A House hearing exposed sharp divisions over whether loosening environmental laws and expanding logging will protect communities from catastrophic fires. Scientists urged a shift toward investing in fire-resilient homes and landscapes."

Source: Inside Climate News, 02/04/2026

"Global Aid Cuts Could Lead To 9.4 Million Deaths By 2030, Study Projects"

"A new study published Monday in the Lancet puts a number on the potential human toll as the global humanitarian system cracks apart, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the current trends persist." "The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains."

Source: Washington Post, 02/04/2026

Experts Call Omaha Coal Plant Clean Bill Of Health Misleading

"On paper, the public power district serving much of eastern Nebraska has been trying to quit coal at its North Omaha plant since 2014. That June, its board voted to retire three of the plant’s five coal units in 2016 and convert the final two to natural gas in 2023."

Source: Flatwater Free Press, 02/03/2026

"Feds Greenlight $2B Renewable Energy Project On Yakama Nation Sacred Site"

"Federal energy regulators last Thursday greenlit a roughly $2 billion renewable energy megaproject on a Yakama Nation sacred site overlooking the Columbia River in Klickitat County."

Source: Washington State Standard, 02/03/2026

"Undoing Utah National Monument Protections Risks Legal Chaos"

"Republicans have a clear path to open national monuments to mining and fossil fuels by tossing out Biden-era conservation plans, but legal analysts say such a move would risk legal chaos."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/03/2026

Trump Energy Dept. Exempts New Nuclear Reactors From Environmental Review

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."

Source: NPR, 02/03/2026

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