EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"News Outlets Urge White House To Reverse Ban On Associated Press" [9]

"Earlier this week dozens of news organizations signed two separate letters to the White House that urged the Trump administration to reverse a policy barring Associated Press journalists from official events."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 02/21/2025
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"Burgum Promises To Hire 5,000 Temporary Park Workers" [16]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended his firing of more than 1,000 park rangers as an effort to shrink government to the “right size,” in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday."

Biodiversity [17]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Politics [10]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [20], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters" [21]

"Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [28], 02/21/2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets [29]

"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Europe [32]
Source: DeSmog [33], 02/21/2025
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"Trump’s Funding Freeze Is Wreaking Havoc On Climate Science" [34]

"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [35]
Science [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [36]
Source: Grist [37], 02/21/2025
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"FEMA Email: Firings Will Affect ‘Majority Of Our Staff’" [38]

"After firing 200 probationary employees this weekend, FEMA was directed “to make a list” of anyone who worked on climate or equity."

Climate Change [22]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [39], 02/21/2025
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale [40]

"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."

Climate Change [22]
Diversity [41]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 02/21/2025
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"Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls" [43]

"President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to help finance repairs to mass transit."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [44]
Transportation [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [46], 02/20/2025
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"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs" [47]

"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta” of environmental laws."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [35]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [48], 02/20/2025
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Trump Clamps Down On Independent Agencies’ Power [49]

"President Donald Trump is expanding White House control over independent agencies in a move his critics view as an alarming power grab."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [50], 02/20/2025
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"Washington Post Backs Out Of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ Ad Order" [51]

"The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [52], 02/20/2025
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"WWF Helping Facilitate Trade In Polar Bear Fur, Investigation Reveals" [53]

"The wildlife charity WWF has been maintaining policies that work to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed."

Activism [54]
Biodiversity [17]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [55]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [36]
Canada [56]
Antarctica & Arctic [57]
Source: Guardian [58], 02/20/2025
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"Louisiana Gas Export Terminal Gets Key Approval to Move Ahead" [59]

"The U.S. Department of Energy has granted conditional authorization for a contested project to export liquified natural gas in southwest Louisiana, potentially the first in a string of such moves in the second Trump administration."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 02/20/2025
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"Feds Approve Another Deepwater Oil Export Terminal Off Texas" [61]

"The Trump administration on Friday approved plans for a second deepwater oil loading terminal off the Texas coast, opening another door for continued long-term growth in American crude production and exports." "An export infrastructure buildout will enable further growth in American oil production as momentum fades on a phase-out of fossil fuels, even as global temperatures continue to break records."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [62]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [63]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 02/20/2025
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"How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick" [65]

"Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations."

Chemicals [66]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [67]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [68]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 02/20/2025
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