"E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos"
"The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court filing on Monday."
Source: NYTimes, 06/17/2025
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Trump EPA Is Telling Some Staff To Stop Policing The Oil And Gas Industry
"The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest — a region plagued by a legacy of pollution — to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, multiple sources told CNN."
Source: CNN, 06/17/2025
Popular NOAA Climate Website Will Be Hobbled, After Trump Cuts Entire Staff
"A widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated, according to current and former employees familiar with the site. The website will stop publishing new content on July 1."
Source: NPR, 06/16/2025
Trump Cuts EPA Grants to Address Health Risks on Hopi and Navajo Reservations
"Red Feather, which works to improve housing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, is just one of hundreds of groups that have had grants meant to help disadvantaged communities terminated by the Trump administration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/16/2025
Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out Agency
"The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster command center, who coordinates the national response to earthquakes, floods and other disasters, has submitted his resignation, according to two people familiar with the matter." "His resignation came after other senior staff members have left and a day after President Trump said he would wind down the federal agency by November."
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2025
"Trump Topples $1 Billion Columbia River Settlement Deal"
"President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the federal government must pull out of a settlement agreement that had halted the long-running legal battle over 14 dams in the Pacific Northwest, reopening a fight over the future of fish populations in the Columbia River Basin."
Source: E&E News, 06/16/2025
"National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’"
"The Interior Department plans to remove or cover up all “inappropriate content” at national parks and sites by Sept. 17 and is asking the park visitors to report any “negative” information about past or living Americans, according to internal documents."
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2025
Analysis: 10 Ways That Trump’s Tax Bill Would Undermine His Energy Promises
"President Donald Trump has promised to reduce gas prices, improve energy security, create domestic manufacturing jobs, boost the economy, and ensure that Americans breathe the cleanest air. But by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, Congress’ big new budget bill would undermine all of these objectives – and more."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2025
EPA Just Delayed Reporting Safety Data On 16 Toxic Chemicals. What To Know.
"The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride."
Source: Washington Post, 06/13/2025
"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035"
"In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2025
