"E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages"
"An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity."
Source: NYTimes, 12/10/2025
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Chemical Lobbyists At Trump EPA Double Amount of Formaldehyde Deemed Safe
"Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them." "The chemical industry finally got its wish."
Source: ProPublica, 12/10/2025"Bid To Oust Zeldin Cites ‘EPA-Sanctioned Pollution Spree’"
"Moms Clean Air Force is activating its million-plus members in a bid to oust Administrator Lee Zeldin from EPA."
Source: E&E News, 12/10/2025"Defense Bill Delays Phaseout Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Firefighting Foam"
"The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) gives the Pentagon more time to use firefighting foam that contains “forever chemicals.”
Source: The Hill, 12/10/2025"Democratic Senators Demand U.S. Park Police Suspend Hiring Spree"
"Democratic senators are demanding the U.S. Park Police suspend their D.C. recruitment blitz and accuse the Trump administration of “hijacking this federal police force for its own authoritarian purposes,” according to a letter sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday morning."
Source: Washington Post, 12/10/2025Arizona Probes Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Polluted Water Discharge
"A proposed critical minerals mine in southern Arizona that was the first added to a federal permitting process designed to be quicker and more transparent has reported water with levels exceeding the state’s regulatory limits of a mineral that can damage the heart, lungs, stomach and eyes."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/10/2025As NOAA Funding Lags, Critical Ocean Weather System Nears Breaking Point
"Years of underfunding and new delays in federal grantmaking threaten buoys and ocean monitoring assets run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that protect fishermen, cargo ships and endangered species across the country."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/10/2025Trump Said Weaker Gas Mileage Rules Will Mean Cheaper Cars. Experts Disagree
"President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken rules for how far automakers’ new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline, set under former President Joe Biden. ... Here are the facts."
Source: AP, 12/10/2025DOJ Ends Monitoring Of Illegal Dumping In Houston Minority Neighborhoods
"The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental justice initiatives."
Source: AP, 12/10/2025"How Tariffs Hit The Brakes On America’s Booming E-Bike Industry"
"Rad Power Bikes is on the verge of becoming the biggest casualty yet in the nation’s struggling electric bicycle sector, which saw its pandemic-era growth spurt blunted by tariffs, overproduction and slowing demand."
Source: Washington Post, 12/10/2025Journal Retracts Study On Safety Of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Ethical Concerns’
"The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer."
Source: Guardian, 12/09/2025"Federal Judge Finds Trump’s Halt on Wind Energy Is Illegal"
"A federal judge on Monday struck down President Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters, dealing a significant legal setback to the administration’s campaign against wind farms."
Source: NYTimes, 12/09/2025PEER Warns that OIRA Chief Jeffrey Clark’s “Acting” Role Is Illegal
"In a new letter to U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is warning that Jeffrey Clark’s role as “Acting Administrator” of the Office of information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) and actions he has taken could be in legal jeopardy."
Source: PEER, 12/09/2025"More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters"
"A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis."
Source: Guardian, 12/09/2025"States Push To End Secrecy Over Data Center Water Use"
"States facing drought and dwindling groundwater supplies are seeking to pull back the curtain on water use at data centers, in a push for transparency that has scrambled traditional partisan alliances."
Source: E&E News, 12/09/2025
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