"How Tech Companies Could Shrink AI's Climate Footprint"
"In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn't shake this existential worry."
Source: NPR, 05/19/2025
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Legal Support For Journalists Helps Meet Rising Threats To Press Freedom
"At a time when attacks on press freedom are heightening, including from the White House and President Donald Trump himself, legal support for journalists is shifting to meet new challenges."
Source: Poynter, 05/19/2025"Trump Admin Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law"
"For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped scores of species — from whooping cranes to red wolves to California condors — claw their way back from the edge of extinction. Its success has made it supremely popular with the American public — far more popular, for instance, than Congress. But now, like all those species it helps protect, the law itself is in grave peril. The Trump administration, Congress, and their allies have launched a barrage of legislation, litigation and regulatory maneuvers in recent months that together could tear the teeth out of our most powerful wildlife conservation statute."
Source: Public Domain, 05/16/2025"Trump Administration Moves to End Major Conservation Rule"
"The Trump administration is set to reverse a sweeping conservation rule for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the latest in a series of actions to reverse Biden-era environmental protections. Announced without much public fanfare in early April, the sudden reversal of the rule, which sought to put conservation on an equal playing field with industrial activities, is a blow to conservation efforts, said environmental groups."
Source: Sierra, 05/16/2025"Trump Admin Launches Far-Reaching Audit Of Energy Awards"
"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a wide-ranging review of more than $15 billion in federal awards approved under President Joe Biden."
Source: E&E News, 05/16/2025"China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon"
"China’s plans to build a massive hydro project in Tibet have sparked fears about the environmental impacts on the world’s longest and deepest canyon. It has also alarmed neighboring India, which fears that China could hold back or even weaponize river water it depends on."
Source: YaleE360, 05/16/2025"EPA Ditches Historic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Rule"
"The Trump administration will roll back a landmark regulation on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, two weeks after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin promised to address contamination from the toxic, man-made substances."
Source: E&E News, 05/15/2025Georgia Shields Maker Of Roundup Weed Killer From Some Cancer Claims
"In a victory for global agrochemical maker Bayer, Georgia has become the second state to shield pesticide manufacturers from some lawsuits claiming that they failed to warn customers of potential dangers."
Source: AP, 05/15/2025"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency"
"Political leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have told scientists there to apply to new jobs, implying that those who do not may be fired, according to an official with a union representing the agency’s employees."
Source: The Hill, 05/15/2025NOAA Seeks To Reassign Employees To Understaffed Weather Service Offices
"The Trump administration is seeking to reassign other employees to “critically understaffed” offices in the National Weather Service (NWS), according to an internal document. The move to reassign these other employees comes after the administration fired hundreds of people at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including some staff at the NWS."
Source: The Hill, 05/15/2025"Eight Of The Top 10 Online Shows Are Spreading Climate Misinformation"
"Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/15/2025"Republicans’ ‘Clearly Unprecedented’ Gambit To Kill Climate Programs"
"The House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to use the budget process to repeal program authorizations. That may not fly in the Senate."
Source: E&E News, 05/15/2025"Trump’s ‘Fear Factor’: Scientists Go Silent As Funding Cuts Escalate"
"In February, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Rebekah Tromble launched a program to advise scientists and journalists targeted for intimidation and harassment. But she announced it quietly, fearing the very kind of attacks the initiative was meant to counter."
Source: Science, 05/15/2025House Natural Resources Chair’s Oil Stock Purchases Were Unusual For Panel
"Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) bought stock in a dozen mining, oil and gas giants two months before ramming an industry-friendly budget bill through his committee."
Source: Public Domain, 05/14/2025"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."
Source: AP, 05/14/2025
