Proposed Dominion Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says
"The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/19/2025
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Maryland Joins Multistate Coalition To Buck Trump Vaccine Policies
"Maryland has joined a growing coalition of states that are setting their own public health guidelines to counter the Trump administration’s more restrictive vaccine policies, a health department spokesperson said Thursday."
Source: States Newsroom, 09/19/2025‘Sun Day’: Climate Activists To Rally For Clean Energy Amid Trump Attacks
"Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency"
Source: Guardian, 09/19/2025National Academy Of Sciences Rebuffs Trump EPA Effort To Undo Climate Rules
"Evidence that climate change harms public health is “beyond scientific dispute,” the independent National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark U.S. government finding to that effect that underpins key environmental regulations."
Source: AP, 09/18/2025"Trump Escalates Attacks on Political Opponents After Charlie Kirk’s Killing"
"President Trump and his top advisers are escalating their attacks on their opponents in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, placing the blame for political violence on Democrats alone and signaling a broad crackdown on critics and left-leaning institutions."
Source: NYTimes, 09/18/2025120 Environmental Defenders Killed Or Disappeared In Latin America Last Year
"At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Global Witness."
Source: AP, 09/18/2025"Scientists Take On Trump: These Researchers Are Fighting Back"
"Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing."
Source: Nature, 09/18/2025Challenge to Maryland Offshore Wind Project Stokes Legal Concerns
"The Trump Administration wants to vacate approval of US Wind’s Maryland project. Experts believe the move could be illegal and could jeopardize the clean energy transition nationwide."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/18/2025Musk Companies May Have Sidestepped Criticized Environmental Regulations
"Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation, especially given the quick timelines his companies prefer to operate on."
Source: ProPublica, 09/18/2025Trump EPA Will Defend Biden Rule Making Polluters Pay For PFAS Cleanup
"The Trump administration says it will defend a Biden era-rule that is expected to keep polluters on the hook to clean up toxic “forever chemicals.”
Source: The Hill, 09/18/2025Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings As They Fight Regs
"Manufacturers sued to stop a Colorado law requiring air quality warnings, arguing gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites once said the opposite."
Source: Grist, 09/18/2025"Trump Files Defamation And Libel Lawsuit Against New York Times"
"President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the New York Times and four of its reporters, accusing the newspaper of libeling him in several articles in the lead-up to last year’s presidential election."
Source: Washington Post, 09/17/2025"Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes"
"The Trump administration has ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back that became one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era."
Source: NYTimes, 09/17/2025"Black Communities, Shaken By Trump Cuts, Feel ‘Left Behind Again’"
"The Trump administration has axed nearly two dozen projects addressing health and environmental issues in Southern Black communities, a Washington Post analysis found, reversing years of work to address pollution, sewage leaks, flooding and more."
Source: Washington Post, 09/17/2025Senator Calls On Big Oil To Disclose Suspected Lobbying Over Climate Rule
"In the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement that it will overturn the rule which underpins virtually all US climate regulations, a Senate committee has launched an investigation into a suspected lobbying push that led to the move."
Source: Guardian, 09/17/2025
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