"Trump’s FEMA Chief Assailed The Agency With Untruths"
"Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina."
Source: E&E News, 02/06/2025
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"Here’s Every Biden-Era Energy Loan — Now All Under Threat From Trump"
"The DOE Loan Programs Office gave out $107 billion to 53 projects, from EV factories to a nuclear-plant restart. But the fate of the loans is unclear under Trump."
Source: Canary Media, 02/06/2025"Trump Picks Scientist Involved In ‘Sharpiegate’ Scandal To Lead NOAA"
"President Donald Trump has named Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who was found to have violated scientific integrity policies during the “Sharpiegate” scandal of the first Trump administration, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
Source: Washington Post, 02/05/2025"Burgum’s First Order Of Business: Drilling, Public Lands And The ESA"
"The Interior secretary signed orders to increase energy production, review Biden public lands efforts and slash regulations."
Source: E&E News, 02/05/2025"E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is demoting career employees who oversee scientific research, the enforcement of pollution laws, hazardous waste cleanup and the agency’s human resources department and will replace them with political appointees, according to two people familiar with the approach."
Source: NYTimes, 02/05/2025"Mountain Valley Pipeline Files Application To Build Southgate Extension"
"Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC filed with regulators Monday official requests to build its revised Southgate extension project from Southwest Virginia into North Carolina." "The company’s proposal to build more than 30 miles of natural gas pipeline has worried environmental advocates, who believe it could harm nearby residents."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/05/2025"Senate Confirms Fracking CEO Chris Wright To Lead Energy Department"
"The Senate on Monday confirmed Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department. The vote was 59-38."
Source: The Hill, 02/04/2025"Elon Musk’s Pet U.S. Attorney Threatens Anyone Reporting on DOGE"
"The shadow president wants total secrecy around his seizure of government agencies."
Source: American Prospect, 02/04/2025"Inside The Energy Department’s Partnership With The Plastics Industry"
"Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry." "Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest."
Source: Grist/ExxonKnews, 02/04/2025Advisers Push CDC To Explain Data Removal, Say When Info Will Be Restored
"Top advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking the agency’s acting director to explain the abrupt removal of information and data from CDC websites, and say when it will be restored." "Agencies took down info on topics including gender, vaccines, and climate change"
Source: STAT News, 02/04/2025EPA Tells Staff To Pause Most External Communications And Meetings
"The agency joins several across government at which the Trump administration has issued at least a partial gag order. An agency spokesperson has denied that a pause is in place."
Source: Government Executive, 02/03/2025"Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday"
"More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”"
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025"EPA Workers Receive Emails Warning Their Employment Could Be Terminated"
"More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and warning they could be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN."
Source: CNN, 02/03/2025"Trump’s Halt on Climate Spending Freezes Jobs and Stalls Projects"
"The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025"Trump Tariffs Could Hurt Oil Companies and Increase Gas Prices"
"Some oil refineries will probably struggle to replace imported crude oil if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2025
