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"Murkowski Introduces Bill To Reverse Trump’s Mount McKinley Name Change"

"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation on Thursday to rename North America’s highest mountain “Denali,” after President Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office changing its name to Mount McKinley."

Source: The Hill, 02/18/2025

Faith Groups Mobilize To Keep Fighting Climate Change As Trump Exits Paris

"Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of fulfilling the U.S. pledge in the Paris Agreement. "

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 02/18/2025

Trump Creates Council For ‘Energy Dominance,’ To Boost Natural Gas Exports

"President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production."

Source: AP, 02/18/2025

Trump DOE Delays Implementation Of Biden-Era Appliance Efficiency Rules

"The Energy Department on Friday afternoon announced it would “postpone” Biden’s efficiency rules for lightbulbs, clothes washers and dryers, air conditioners, air compressors and gas-powered water heaters."

Source: The Hill, 02/18/2025

Trump Wants States To Clean Up Forests To Stop Wildfires. But He Cuts Funds

"President Donald Trump’s administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation championed by his Democratic predecessor, threatening efforts to prevent catastrophic blazes like the ones that recently ripped through Southern California."

Source: AP, 02/18/2025

From Oil Boom to Lithium Rush — Reporting the Realities

A coming lithium rush in Arkansas drew the notice of journalist Katie Myers, who used a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism to explore whether extraction activities near once-booming energy communities could avoid the economic and environmental impacts of another boom-and-bust cycle for a largely Black region with histories of land dispossession, plantation slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Lessons learned in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

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