"Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the G.O.P. Tax Bill"
"Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately."
Source: NYTimes, 06/12/2025
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"Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas"
"Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants in Texas in the next few years amid a race to meet enormous electrical demand from energy-hungry industries, according to a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/12/2025Phase-Out of FEMA On Course, Trump Says, Raising Worries About Disaster Aid
"The Trump administration will begin dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency later this year, the president announced on Tuesday, setting a tight timeframe for a breakup that many experts warned would likely harm the nation’s ability to respond to disasters."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/12/2025Whistleblower Who Leaked Plans To Build Golf Courses In Florida Parks Sues
"A former worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in Florida state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit."
Source: AP, 06/12/2025"Greenland And Iceland Saw Record Heat In May. What It Means For The World.
"Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday."
Source: AP, 06/12/2025"‘Forever Chemicals’ Industry Aims To Capitalize On AI Boom"
"Semiconductor production is impossible without PFAS, spurring fresh concerns about increased contamination tied to the toxic substances."
Source: E&E News, 06/12/2025Scientists Fear Pesticides Are Raising Resistance To Antifungal Drugs
"The proliferation of new fungicides in the U.S. agricultural sector may be raising resistance to critical antifungal medications in humans and animals, infectious disease experts are warning."
Source: The Hill, 06/12/2025"Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales"
"At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/12/2025EPA Drops Complaint vs. Major Trump Donor Over Disinfectant in ICE Facility
"The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities."
Source: ProPublica, 06/11/2025"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"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"A Killer Within Easy Reach"
"Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones."
Source: NYTimes, 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"How The ‘Evil Twin’ Of The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Our Oceans"
"In seas around the world pH levels are falling – and scientists are increasingly frustrated that the problem is not being taken seriously enough"
Source: Guardian, 06/11/2025
