Environmental Health

NYC Congestion Pricing Improves Air Quality, but Trump Threatens Its Future

"A toll program in New York City has resulted in environmental gains across all five boroughs. The Trump administration is seeking to end it."

Source: Inside Climate News, 02/04/2026

"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

"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

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

"Judge Rules Department Of Energy’s Climate Working Group Was Illegal"

"On Friday, a judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the law in forming its Climate Working Group, which released a report that was intended to undercut the rationale behind greenhouse gas regulations. The judge overseeing the case determined that the government tried to treat the Climate Working Group as a formal advisory body, while not having it obey many of the statutory requirements that govern such bodies."

Source: Ars Techbica, 02/03/2026

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