"Trump Tariffs Could Hurt Oil Companies and Increase Gas Prices"
"Some oil refineries will probably struggle to replace imported crude oil if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025
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"Trump’s Halt on Climate Spending Freezes Jobs and Stalls Projects"
"The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025
"EPA Workers Receive Emails Warning Their Employment Could Be Terminated"
"More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and warning they could be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN."
Source: CNN, 02/03/2025
"Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday"
"More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”"
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025
EPA Tells Staff To Pause Most External Communications And Meetings
"The agency joins several across government at which the Trump administration has issued at least a partial gag order. An agency spokesperson has denied that a pause is in place."
Source: Government Executive, 02/03/2025
Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too
As environmental journalists scramble to cover dizzying changes in climate and energy policy under the new administration, columnist Yessenia Funes offers an admonition: Do not forget about those whose human rights are being targeted by Trump, and look to connect the changing planet with changes felt by threatened communities. The new Voices of Environmental Justice on exiting the echo chamber.
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Energy-Dominance Exponent Coasts Into Interior
The newly installed Interior Department head, who will manage most federally owned U.S. lands and billions of acres of the continental shelf, hails from a top fossil fuel-producing state and has close oil industry ties, reports the new EJ TransitionWatch. What former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum had to say at his Senate confirmation about U.S. “energy dominance.” Plus, one surprising source of support.
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#SEJSpotlight: Jennifer Grayson, Freelance Journalist and Author
Meet SEJ member Jennifer Grayson! Jennifer is a Los Angeles-based journalist focusing on the environment, food systems and public health. She is the author of the award-winning "Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy" and a new book, "A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World."
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