"U.S. Mayors To Take Lead At COP30 In Place Of Trump"
"As the Trump administration halts climate programmes, local leaders plan to participate in Brazil's COP30 to reaffirm their commitment."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/17/2025
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"Trump Admin Approves $1.6B In Financing For AEP Transmission Project"
"In a rare example of continuity on energy policy, Trump’s DOE finalized the Biden-era loan to upgrade 5,000 miles of power lines across the Midwest."
Source: Canary Media, 10/17/2025"Ohio To Fast-Track Energy At Former Coal Mines And Brownfields"
"A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields."
Source: Canary Media, 10/17/2025As Wolves Roam Calif., Livestock Losses Remain Low, Yet Ranchers Worry
"In California, as wolf numbers grow — a remarkable return after a century — livestock producers are increasingly worried as these predators occasionally take down cattle."
Source: Mongabay, 10/17/2025Journalists Turn In Badges, Exit Pentagon Rather Than Agree To New Rules
"Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power."
Source: AP, 10/16/2025"A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone"
"Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January."
Source: WIRED, 10/16/2025"Court Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Layoff Plans"
"A federal judge in California has temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the government shutdown as the basis for layoffs at EPA, the Energy Department and other agencies."
Source: E&E News, 10/16/2025"Natural Gas Prices Are Low, But Your Monthly Gas Bill Is Up. Here's Why"
"In the Philadelphia suburb of Wyncote, Pa., Michelle Lordi has taken notice of her higher gas bills. ... Now Lordi is making the connection between her higher gas bill and the nearby construction."
Source: NPR, 10/16/2025UN Warns Colombia Over Mercury In Atrato River As Human Rights Emergency
"The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities who depend on the river for food, water and culture."
Source: AP, 10/16/2025"Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant"
"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."
Source: NYTimes, 10/16/2025"Texas County Sues Trump Admin Over Canceled Solar Grants"
"A Texas county is suing EPA over the agency’s cancellation of nearly $250 million in solar energy grants." "The lawsuit says the Trump administration unlawfully revoked funding for low-income communities to access clean, affordable energy."
Source: E&E News, 10/16/2025"Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Forever Chemicals In Cookware"
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of “forever chemicals” in cookware and other products in California."
Source: The Hill, 10/16/2025"Calif.'s Incarcerated Firefighters Just Got A Nearly 700% Raise"
"More than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters were sent to Southern California in January to fight four different wildfires. As the Palisades Fire ran up a hillside, one strike team saved the life of a resident who was still at his home."
Source: SFGate, 10/16/2025Aeroecology Reveals Creatures That Populate the Skies and How They Survive
"The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there"
Source: Smithsonian, 10/16/2025Shutdown Will Deepen Hunger In America As Trump Ag Dept. Stops Tracking It
"Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout."
Source: Grist, 10/15/2025
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