"House Releases Interior-EPA Spending Bill With Deep Cuts"
"House Republican appropriators unveiled their fiscal 2026 funding legislation for the Interior Department and EPA, with steep cuts proposed for both agencies."
Source: E&E News, 07/15/2025
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"Wildfire Destroys A Historic Grand Canyon Lodge And Other Structures"
"A fast-moving wildfire destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of other structures on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, forcing officials to close access to that area for the season, the park said Sunday."
Source: AP, 07/15/2025Chesapeake Bay Program Nixes Membership For Virginia Tribal Nations For Now
"Recognized for their environmental stewardship rooted in ancestral practices, seven tribes in Virginia are seeking full membership in the Chesapeake Bay Program alongside its existing signatory partners"
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/15/2025Osprey Came Back From The Brink Once. Now Chicks Are Dying In Nests
"Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It’s a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns."
Source: AP, 07/15/2025Recurrent Wildfires Across The Mediterranean Region Changing Landscape
"Multiple countries in the Mediterranean region have been battling intense wildfires this summer, including France, Greece, Syria and Turkey. These aggressive, recurring fires suggests a new normal of altered lives, landscapes and economies in the Mediterranean basin."
Source: France24, 07/15/2025"An Ohio Solar Project Overcomes Local Opposition And Misinformation"
"A contested solar agrivoltaics project avoided having its permit denied by Ohio regulators, likely thanks to the neutral stances of a county board and one of its townships."
Source: Canary Media, 07/15/2025"US Delays Rule On Gulf Of Mexico Whale Protections By Two Years"
"U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court."
Source: Reuters, 07/15/2025"Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding"
"Kerr County failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects."
Source: NYTimes, 07/15/2025New Natural Food Dye OKd as FDA Pressures Industry To Drop Red Dye No. 3
"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved another naturally derived food dye on Monday, making good on one of its key promises in the effort to rid the US food system of petroleum-based synthetic dyes."
Source: The New Lede, 07/15/2025"FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show"
"Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2025"Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response"
"In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2025"FEMA Approved Camp Mystic Appeals To Exempt Buildings From Flood Zone"
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved appeals from Camp Mystic to exempt several structures from a flood zone designation over a decade before extreme flooding in Central Texas swamped the Christian girls camp and killed 27 campers and counselors, according to FEMA records."
Source: Washington Post, 07/14/2025Cancer Risk Doubles For Iowa, NC Pesticide Applicators Who Used Carbaryl
"Pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa who sprayed the insecticide carbaryl often during their career have a higher risk of getting stomach, esophageal, tongue and prostate cancers, according to new research led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)."
Source: The New Lede, 07/14/2025"Union Demands EPA Reinstate Workers, Charging Illegal Retaliation"
"A union for employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is demanding the agency reinstate workers who were placed on leave for signing a letter critical of the Trump administration’s environmental and personnel policies."
Source: The Hill, 07/14/2025"DuPont Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Hoosick Falls Water Pollution"
"DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the company."
Source: Albany Times Union, 07/14/2025
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