"Documents Reveal Trump’s Plan To Gut Funding For Nasa And Climate Science"
"Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed"
Source: Guardian, 04/15/2025
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Trump Axed Rule Designed To Spare Taxpayers The Burden Of Future Flooding
"The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again."
Source: Grist/BPR, 04/15/2025"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research"
"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show."
Source: E&E News, 04/14/2025"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs"
"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."
Source: E&E News, 04/14/2025Court Allows Suit Alleging Environmental Racism In La. Parish To Proceed
"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."
Source: AP, 04/14/2025"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting"
"The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/14/2025"Layoffs And Funding Delays Could Slow Fight Against Lead, Experts Say"
"Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk."
Source: Washington Post, 04/14/2025"Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers As US Treaty Threat Grows"
"Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 04/14/2025African Conservationists Seek More Love For Vultures
"Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. But conservationists in Africa are trying to change that."
Source: AP, 04/14/2025Trump EPA Will Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
"The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron and steel, according to documents reviewed by ProPublica."
Source: ProPublica, 04/11/2025Trump BLM Nominee Sgamma Withdraws
"President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn from consideration."
Source: E&E News, 04/11/20251000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals
"Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday."
Source: The New Lede, 04/11/2025Firm Cancels Plant To Process Plastic Waste To Be Burned In Steel Mills
"International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons."
Source: EHN, 04/11/2025Haze Rule Helped Clear Air Over American Parks. Trump EPA Wants To Kill It
"During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze. Today, he said, he can see some 50 miles (80 kilometers) across that same valley to the Cumberland Mountains."
Source: AP, 04/11/2025Smithsonian Could Be Start Of Trump’s Plan To Edit History. Or The End.
"The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do."
Source: Washington Post, 04/11/2025
