"Document Shows E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Limits on Mercury From Power Plants"
"The agency plans to weaken limits on toxic emissions from power plants while also scrapping restrictions on planet-warming greenhouse gases."
Source: NYTimes, 06/11/2025
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"Trump Says Governors Should Be Able To Handle Disasters Without FEMA"
"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies on their own."
Source: Washington Post, 06/11/2025"Summer Staffing Crunch Hits National Parks After Trump Cuts"
"At Yosemite National Park in California, one of the oldest and most popular U.S. natural preserves, the workforce is stretched so thin this season that nearly all staffers, even scientists, are required to take turns cleaning campground toilets, according to two people familiar with conditions there."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2025"DOJ Tells Trump He Can Wipe Out National Monuments"
"An opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel says the Antiquities Act of 1906 allows presidents to shrink or eliminate designations by previous presidents."
Source: E&E News, 06/11/2025"Trump’s Second Term Is Creating ‘A Limbo Moment’ For US Battery Recyclers"
"The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it."
Source: Grist, 06/11/2025"RFK Jr. Purges Every Vaccine Adviser On CDC Panel; Will Pick Replacements"
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he was removing the entire membership of the influential vaccine advisory panel that makes immunization recommendations for the United States, an unprecedented move by Kennedy and escalation of his overhaul of federal vaccination policy."
Source: Washington Post, 06/10/2025"Trump Cuts Would Scrap USGS Biological Research Arm"
"The Trump administration wants to unplug a high-powered U.S. Geological Survey research program whose scientists have helped protect wildlife, manage forests, thwart pests and illuminate nature for over three decades."
Source: E&E News, 06/10/2025UN Ocean Summit Opens In France As U.S. Government Scientists Stay Away
"World leaders, scientists and officials gathered on Monday to open the third United Nations Ocean Conference and launch a global appeal to save the world's oceans, which scientists say are in bad health." "Glaringly absent are U.S. scientific agencies like NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their scientists weren't allowed to attend the summit, say organizers."
Source: NPR, 06/10/2025In Highly Polluted Ala. Black Community, Trump Axes Funds for Air Monitoring
"Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025"A Proposal For A Massachusetts Wood-Burning Plant Is Back From The Dead"
"A plan to build a wood-burning power plant in a Massachusetts city once dubbed the asthma capital of the country could be springing back to life years after state and local officials struck it down — and opponents are ready to renew their fight against what many call a “zombie project.”"
Source: Canary Media, 06/10/2025"Trump’s Cuts To National Park Service Rankle Republicans"
"President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans."
Source: The Hill, 06/10/2025Big Bill Hands Public Land Near Minnesota Wilderness To Foreign Mining Company
"A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company."
Source: Public Domain, 06/09/2025"What Is Bottom Trawling And How Does It Harm Oceans?"
"Governments are meeting in France to discuss how to protect oceans from harmful fishing practices, like bottom trawling."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/09/2025"Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine"
"The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and putting into action a key element of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s coal industry."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2025"Electricity Prices Are Surging. The GOP Megabill Could Push Them Higher."
"The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power. And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say."
Source: NYTimes, 06/09/2025
