Energy & Fuel

Explosion at La. Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout

"As oily rain fell on Roseland, where 90% of kids live in poverty, the Trump administration is considering gutting chemical-disaster safeguards."

Source: Capital B, 09/04/2025

Despite Trump's Brags, New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells

"Hakim Dermish moved to the small South Texas town of Catarina in 2002 in search of a rural lifestyle on a budget. The property where he lived with his wife didn’t have electricity or sewer lines at first, but that didn’t bother him."

Source: ICN/ProPublica, 09/04/2025

"White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind"

"The White House has taken the extraordinary step of instructing a half-dozen agencies to draft plans to thwart the country’s offshore wind industry as it intensifies its governmentwide attack on a source of renewable energy that President Trump has criticized as ugly, expensive and inefficient."

Source: NYTimes, 09/04/2025

Trump DOT Cancels $679 Million For Offshore Wind Projects As Industry Reels

"The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry."

Source: AP, 09/02/2025

"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions"

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2025

Trump Climate Science Denial Hinges on … Not Saying the Word

A war on the facts behind climate change — and on the actions to address it — is well underway in the second Trump administration. The new WatchDog Opinion column takes the measure of the battlefront, eyeing key examples of the political onslaught, including a concerted effort to eradicate the very term itself. Regulations killed, research discredited, speech censored and more.

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