"Texas Floods Shine Spotlight On Trump’s Weather And Disaster Cuts"
"The deadly Texas floods are drawing renewed scrutiny to Trump administration cuts at the nation’s weather and climate research agencies."
Source: The Hill, 07/09/2025
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"Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change"
"The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country."
Source: NYTimes, 07/09/2025"Trump Wants to Kill a Chemical Safety Board. Chemical Makers Object."
"The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what went wrong."
Source: NYTimes, 07/09/2025"Texas Flood Forecasts Were Accurate. It Wasn’t Enough To Save Lives."
"The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early morning flash floods." "The catastrophic floods that struck central Texas on Friday show that accurate weather forecasts alone aren’t enough to save lives."
Source: E&E News, 07/09/2025"In Reversal, Trump Administration Will Defend Biden’s Asbestos Ban"
"The Trump administration says it will uphold a Biden-era ban on the ongoing use of asbestos after previously saying it would reconsider the rule."
Source: The Hill, 07/09/2025Chantal Wreaks Havoc in N. Carolina as Lawmakers Try to Repeal Climate Goal
"Early Sunday morning, Tropical Storm Chantal had blown ashore in South Carolina, and by the time it meandered into central North Carolina, it had weakened to a tropical depression. But by nightfall the impacts felt akin to a hurricane: 5 to 10 inches of rain fell within 12 hours. Dams burst. Interstates closed. Roads washed away. The Haw River reached historic levels, rising as much as 22 feet in four hours, engulfing parts of Saxapahaw."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/09/2025"Nearly Two-Thirds Of US Beaches Saw Fecal Contamination Last Year: Report"
"As Americans flock to the country’s coasts — and to the lakes and rivers in between — in the heat of summer, they may be doing so despite the presence of fecal matter."
Source: The Hill, 07/09/2025"Tax Credit Cuts In Trump’s Megabill Imperil Two Fully Approved Wind Farms"
"The “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes rollbacks of clean energy incentives that at least two offshore wind projects rely on to pencil out financially, analysts say."
Source: Canary Media, 07/09/2025"Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave"
"Days after an intense, record-breaking heat wave sweltered wide swaths of Europe, a group of scientists released a rapid analysis estimating the extent to which climate change might have amplified the heat wave’s death toll."
Source: NYTimes, 07/09/2025"First Amendment Advocates Decry Settlement In ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit"
"Press freedom groups and First Amendment advocates slammed Paramount’s $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump, saying the decision emboldened Trump’s attacks against an already-battered news industry."
Source: Politico, 07/09/2025"Death Toll From Catastrophic Flooding In Texas Surpasses 100
"The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 on Monday as search-and-rescue teams continued to wade into swollen rivers and use heavy equipment to untangle trees as part of the massive search for missing people."
Source: AP, 07/08/2025"Poisoned Water And Scarred Hills"
"When you stand on the edge of Bayan Obo, all you see is an expanse of scarred grey earth carved into the grasslands of Inner Mongolia in northern China. Dark dust clouds rise from deep craters where the earth’s crust has been sliced away over decades in a search of modern treasure."
Source: BBC News, 07/08/2025"Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming"
"Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways to protect shellfish in the Pacific Northwest, although Trump budget cuts may thwart their efforts."
Source: NYTimes, 07/08/2025Trump’s EPA Pulling Back on Promise to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals
"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research."
Source: ProPublica, 07/08/2025"Trump DOI Weighs New Coal Sales From Public Lands In Montana And Wyoming
"Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S. fossil fuel production."
Source: AP, 07/08/2025
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