Environmental Politics

After Deep Cuts, National Weather Service Gets OK To Fill Up To 450 Jobs

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing, the Trump administration confirmed Wednesday."

Source: AP, 08/08/2025

"RFK Jr. Announces End To Some mRNA Contracts, Including For Flu, Covid"

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday a crackdown on mRNA vaccine technology and research to develop it, following months of pressure from anti-vaccine activists."

Source: Washington Post, 08/08/2025

DOE Boss Says Trump Admin May Alter Past National Climate Assessments

"Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright said officials are reviewing previously published National Climate Assessments and may update them. Earlier this year, the Trump administration fired more than 400 scientists working on the next federal climate report and removed the website that housed the previous ones."

Source: LA Times, 08/08/2025

"National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science"

"The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment."

Source: Inside Climate News, 08/08/2025

"Burgum Nixes ‘Thoughtless’ Biden Approval Of Idaho Wind Farm"

"The Interior Department reversed the Biden-era approval of a contentious wind project in southern Idaho on Wednesday, part of a broader Trump administration effort to shift development on public lands away from renewable energy."

Source: E&E News, 08/07/2025

"At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators"

"The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by a number of environmental hazards like hurricanes, intense heat and even wildfires."

Source: NYTimes, 08/07/2025

Denial Of Gray Wolf Protections Violated Endangered Species Act, Judge Rules

"The Fish and Wildlife Service will have to reconsider whether gray wolves in the western United States merit Endangered Species Act protections in light of Republican-backed efforts to aggressively cull the animals in the Northern Rockies, a federal judge ruled Tuesday."

Source: Public Domain, 08/07/2025

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