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Alabama Power Faces Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash [1]

"Nine years after the Gadsden Steam Plant stopped burning coal, its unlined coal ash pond is still polluting Alabama groundwater, records show."

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Source: Inside Climate News [11], 05/21/2025
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"Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men" [12]

"An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts."

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Source: NYTimes [20], 05/21/2025
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"FEMA Should Take New Name, States Should Bear Costs, DHS Head Noem Says" [21]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be renamed as the agency is reformed to increase the burden on states to respond to natural disasters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a meeting on reforming FEMA on Tuesday."

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Source: Reuters [26], 05/21/2025
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"WOTUS: A Narrowing EPA Definition Is Reshaping The Clean Water Act" [27]

"Debra Shankland was a kid when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire in 1969. ... Shankland was one of many speakers at the latest listening session led by the EPA as the agency crafts a new definition for the long controversial language “waters of the United States” contained in the Clean Water Act. The interpretation of that phrase, commonly shorthanded as WOTUS, can have massive implications for the health of small streams, remote wetlands, creeks and other waters."

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Source: The New Lede [31], 05/20/2025
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Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Environmental Grant Funding [32]

"A federal judge said Monday he would order the Trump administration to restore $176 million granted by Congress to 13 nonprofit groups and six municipalities nationwide."

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Source: Inside Climate News [34], 05/20/2025
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"White House Weighs NRC Overhaul" [35]

"Industry experts are warning that political oversight of the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission could do more harm than good."

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Source: E&E News [37], 05/20/2025
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"Trump Officials Allow Massive New York Offshore Wind Project To Restart" [38]

"The Trump administration lifted the stop-work order on a major wind farm off the coast of New York on Monday, according to a statement by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), following direct appeals she made to the president."

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Source: Washington Post [41], 05/20/2025
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"Electricity Costs Keep Climbing, Despite Trump’s Promises" [42]

"On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump vowed to cut energy costs in half. So far, that’s not coming true. And estimates say that his policies could only make things worse."

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Energy & Fuel [3]
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Source: E&E News [44], 05/20/2025
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"GOP Budget Plan Contains A Massive Poison Pill For Clean Energy" [45]

"Tucked into the House Republicans’ 389-page tax bill released on Monday is a poison pill for U.S. clean energy developers and manufacturers, one that energy and tax policy experts say would essentially repeal the hundreds of billions of dollars of tax credits now flowing to energy projects and solar, battery, and EV factories across the country."

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Source: Canary Media [46], 05/20/2025
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Trump Pursues Broad Attack on Press Freedom [47]

In case you haven’t been keeping track, Donald Trump has been engaging in a multifront offensive against the news media and press freedom more generally. WatchDog Opinion catalogs the transgressions to illustrate how the president is moving to grasp control of White House pool coverage, beguile rich media owners, politicize libel law, kneecap public media and weaponize regulatory agencies.

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