"Document Shows E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Limits on Mercury From Power Plants"
"The agency plans to weaken limits on toxic emissions from power plants while also scrapping restrictions on planet-warming greenhouse gases."
Source: NYTimes, 06/11/2025
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EPA Drops Complaint vs. Major Trump Donor Over Disinfectant in ICE Facility
"The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities."
Source: ProPublica, 06/11/2025
"Trump’s Cuts To National Park Service Rankle Republicans"
"President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans."
Source: The Hill, 06/10/2025
"Rockaway NY Was Fighting Coastal Erosion –- Then EPA Cancelled Funding
"Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s EPA."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025
In Highly Polluted Ala. Black Community, Trump Axes Funds for Air Monitoring
"Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025
"Trump Cuts Would Scrap USGS Biological Research Arm"
"The Trump administration wants to unplug a high-powered U.S. Geological Survey research program whose scientists have helped protect wildlife, manage forests, thwart pests and illuminate nature for over three decades."
Source: E&E News, 06/10/2025
"In Georgia, Republicans Vote to Kill Green Jobs but Face Little Fallout"
"In Cedartown, Ga., a solar recycling company’s plan to hire 1,200 people could be upended by Republicans in Congress."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2025
"Pesticide Report Led By RFK Jr. Draws Fire From Agrichemical Industry"
"A new White House report linking pesticides to children’s health concerns is drawing backlash from farm groups and support from environmental advocates."
Source: Investigate Midwest, 06/09/2025
"Electricity Prices Are Surging. The GOP Megabill Could Push Them Higher."
"The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power. And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2025
"Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine"
"The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and putting into action a key element of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s coal industry."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2025
