Environmental Politics

Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."

Source: AP, 09/11/2025

Georgia Judge To Toss Racketeering Charges Against ‘Cop City’ Protesters

"A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”"

Source: AP, 09/10/2025

House Bill Amending Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water in Iowa and US

"A bill drastically reducing the scope of the Clean Water Act passed through committee in the U.S. House and will likely reach the floor for debate later this month. The legislation would narrow the definition of bodies of water that qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act and would remove laws requiring permits before discharging pesticides or manure-contaminated stormwater from factory farms into waterways."

Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025

"Trump EPA Seeks To Speed Up Permitting For AI Infrastructure"

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed new measures aimed at speeding construction of infrastructure needed for the rapid buildup of data centers for artificial intelligence that would enable companies to start building before obtaining air permits."

Source: Reuters, 09/10/2025

Online Disaster Planning Tool May Go Dark On Wednesday, FEMA Site Says

"An online disaster management tool that U.S. emergency managers use to communicate may no longer be supported Wednesday, according to a notice posted and later deleted from a federal government website."

Source: Reuters, 09/10/2025

"Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe"

"U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is in Europe this week to lobby for oil and gas, and some European policy experts say his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer."

Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025

"Budget Shortfalls Put Mass Transit At Risk Across US"

"Transit agencies have been warning for years that the twin problems of diminished ridership and rising costs could send entire public transportation systems into a tailspin. Now, some worry that day has come."

Source: E&E News, 09/10/2025

"AP Finds Major Disaster Declarations Are Taking Longer Under Trump"

"Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found."

Source: AP, 09/10/2025

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