"Major Burgum Donor Lands Plum Job at Interior Department"
"William Hague is a former telecom executive, and a campaign contributor to Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary."
Source: Public Domain, 09/19/2025
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"FOIA Records Reveal EPA Leaders Frequent Meetings With Industry Lobbyists"
"Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission."
Source: The New Lede, 09/19/2025"A Coal-Burning Steel Plant May Thwart Cleveland’s Climate Goals"
"The facility is the city’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology."
Source: Canary Media, 09/19/2025"Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways"
"This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their local waterways."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/19/2025Enviros and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Justice Grants
"Environmental justice nonprofits, local governments and Indigenous groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center filed notice on Tuesday that they will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s dismissal of their case seeking to reverse the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program in February."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/19/2025Proposed 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, 09/19/2025Hurricane Helene Hit NC A Year Ago. Some Students Never Returned To School
"When 12-year-old Natalie Briggs visited the ruins of her home after Hurricane Helene, she had to tightrope across a wooden beam to reach what was once her bedroom."
Source: AP/BRPR, 09/19/2025Maryland 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, 09/18/2025Human-Made Global Warming ‘Caused 2 In 3 Heat Deaths In Europe This Summer’
"Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases". "Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found."
Source: Guardian, 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, 09/18/2025
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