Former Trump Interior Secretary Rakes In Corporate Cash At New Lobbying Firm
"David Bernhardt's new firm is making big bucks lobbying for major energy corporations, agricultural giants and more."
Source: Public Domain, 09/10/2025
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Online Disaster Planning Tool May Go Dark On Wednesday, FEMA Site Says
"An online disaster management tool that U.S. emergency managers use to communicate may no longer be supported Wednesday, according to a notice posted and later deleted from a federal government website."
Source: Reuters, 09/10/2025"Trump EPA Seeks To Speed Up Permitting For AI Infrastructure"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed new measures aimed at speeding construction of infrastructure needed for the rapid buildup of data centers for artificial intelligence that would enable companies to start building before obtaining air permits."
Source: Reuters, 09/10/2025Enviros Worry Spraying Glyphosate Makes Forests More Vulnerable To Wildfires
"Herbicides in forestry kill broadleaf vegetation that compete with softwoods, which are more flammable"
Source: CBC News, 09/10/2025House Bill Amending Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water in Iowa and US
"A bill drastically reducing the scope of the Clean Water Act passed through committee in the U.S. House and will likely reach the floor for debate later this month. The legislation would narrow the definition of bodies of water that qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act and would remove laws requiring permits before discharging pesticides or manure-contaminated stormwater from factory farms into waterways."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025Georgia Judge To Toss Racketeering Charges Against ‘Cop City’ Protesters
"A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”"
Source: AP, 09/10/2025"Exxon Wants to Make More of the Materials Needed for E.V. Batteries"
"The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade."
Source: NYTimes, 09/10/2025‘There Is Only One Player’: China Is Becoming A World Leader In Green Energy
"As US reneges on climate breakdown pledges, China’s response to crisis will shape geopolitics and our future"
Source: Guardian, 09/09/2025"DC Circuit Reverses EPA Removal of Sudden Emission Protections"
"The EPA couldn’t justify scaling back startup, shutdown, and malfunction liability shields in Title V air permitting rules, according to a Friday judgment from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/09/2025"Trump Plan To Move USDA Spurs Brain Drain Fears"
"A Trump administration plan to remove thousands of agriculture employees from Washington, D.C., is raising concerns among economists, who fear that such a move could erode expertise in a workforce reluctant to relocate."
Source: The Hill, 09/09/2025"EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS"
"Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides."
Source: Civil Eats, 09/09/2025"Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change"
"Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”"
Source: NYTimes, 09/09/2025"Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide"
"The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage."
Source: NYTimes, 09/09/2025"California Quietly Guts Ambitious Virtual Power Plant Bill"
"Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead — but the most innovative approaches were cut."
Source: Canary Media, 09/09/2025Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Biogas Industrial Hog Farms
"N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/09/2025
