"Trump Ally Seeks To Topple Pipeline Safety Enforcement"
"The pipeline company led by President Donald Trump’s biggest energy donor is trying to upend the way the federal government enforces pipeline safety law."
Source: E&E News, 03/27/2025
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In Testimony, RCFP Attorney Highlights Government Threats To Free Speech
"An attorney from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press highlighted several government threats to free speech, including the recent White House ban on The Associated Press, while testifying on Tuesday before a U.S. Senate subcommittee about “The Censorship-Industrial Complex.”
Source: RCFP, 03/27/2025
Sewage Sludge Is Used As Farm Fertilizer. Some Neighbors Hate It
"When Leslie Stewart moved to her home in a rural expanse of Lincoln County outside of Oklahoma City more than 20 years ago, she thought she’d found a slice of heaven. ... But several years ago, her neighbor began applying sewage sludge, which consists largely of human waste left over from municipal wastewater treatment facilities, as a fertilizer on his farmland, causing a rancid smell so powerful it nearly took her breath away."
Source: AP, 03/27/2025
Calif. Farmworker Communities Now Must Be Notified of Pesticide Applications
"After decades of pressure from farmworkers and their allies, California launched a statewide system to warn communities before they’re exposed to toxic pesticides. But health concerns remain."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/27/2025
Is Planting Trees 'DEI'? Trump USFS Cuts Nationwide Tree-Planting Effort
"The Trump administration's efforts to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs has hit an unexpected target: In February, communities around the country learned that funding was canceled for a nationwide tree-planting program aimed at making neighborhoods cooler, healthier and more resilient to climate change."
Source: NPR, 03/26/2025
"Supreme Court Weighs Which Courts Can Hear Clean Air Act Disputes"
"The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of D.C. — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."
Source: The Hill, 03/26/2025
"California Launches First-In-Nation Satellite Tech To Curb Methane Leaks"
"California air quality regulators announced the launch of a first-in-nation satellite data project Friday, with the aim of monitoring and minimizing methane emissions."
Source: The Hill, 03/26/2025
Despite Staff and Budget Cuts, NOAA Issues Critical Drought Warnings
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although battered by Trump administration attempts to impose massive staff and budget cuts on the agency, nevertheless continues to publish critical climate information, including some dire drought warnings in the spring outlook published March 20 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025
EPA Cuts Grants For Measuring and Reducing Construction Material Emissions
"The Trump administration has eviscerated a grant program designed to make U.S. industry cleaner and more competitive by improving measurement of emissions from building materials. The Environmental Protection Agency says it has canceled $116 million in grants to 21 recipients that include universities and trade groups, according to information obtained by the Sierra Club through a public records request."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025
Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Use More Energy Than Most States
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"As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options. But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require enormous amounts of energy, just as Texas fights to keep up with the rapidly growing power demands of a high-tech industrial buildout."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2025
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