"After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations"
"In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state’s petrochemical industry."
Source: Capital & Main, 03/09/2026
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‘Fundamental Conflict’: Ethics Holds On Trump EPA Chemicals Officials Lift
"A host of agency appointees will be free to reconnect with past industry clients on upcoming consequential regulatory matters."
Source: E&E News, 03/09/2026Tackling Air Pollution Should Be Part Of War On Cancer Rates: Scientists
"Cutting air pollution should form part of government strategies to reduce cancer rates, the European Code Against Cancer has recommended."
Source: Guardian, 03/09/2026"A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War."
"Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition."
Source: NYTimes, 03/09/2026EPA Staffing Hits 40-Year Low As Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts
"The EPA lost more than 4,000 employees in the first year of Trump’s second term, bringing its staffing down to a total of 12,849—a level not seen since the Reagan administration. That represents a reduction of 24 percent, more than double the rate of losses across the entire federal workforce."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/09/2026Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet, Without Much Proof
"A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all."
Source: WIRED, 03/09/2026State ‘Sound Science’ Bills Limit Environmental Regulations: Scientists
"Bills in four states require state environmental regulations to show “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just increased risk of disease. Scientists say that’s all but impossible."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/09/2026House Panel OKs Farm Bill With Disputed Pesticide And Livestock Provisions
"After days of debate and disagreements, the House Committee on Agriculture on Thursday passed its version of the 2026 Farm Bill, which includes controversial provisions critics say will hamper the ability of states to put in place strict rules for pesticides and animal welfare."
Source: The New Lede, 03/06/2026"Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Plan to End NYC Congestion Pricing"
"A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down New York’s congestion pricing program are unlawful."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/06/2026Big Tech Signs Trump Data Center Pledge. Fulfilling It Is the Hard Part.
"In an effort to quell blowback on data centers, President Donald Trump announced at a White House roundtable on Wednesday the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a set of nonbinding promises that Big Tech companies signed to keep household utility bills from skyrocketing."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/06/2026Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah
"Two Utah Congress members have introduced a resolution that could end protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Conservation groups worry similar maneuvers on other federal lands will follow."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/06/2026West Va. Senate Moves To Weaken Aboveground Storage Tank Rules
"West Virginia lawmakers in the Senate passed a bill to weaken drinking water protections by loosening regulations for certain aboveground storage tanks. It is the latest move to weaken the Aboveground Storage Tank Act, passed in 2014 after a chemical leak from Freedom Industries along the Elk River contaminated drinking water for nearly 300,000 West Virginians in the Charleston area."
Source: Mountain State Spotlight, 03/06/2026"Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers"
"No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet, the Interior Department said Wednesday."
Source: NYTimes, 03/05/2026"The Most Imperiled Terrestrial Ecosystem On The Planet"
"High along the Southwind Nature Trail, the tallgrass prairie waves in all directions, a mix of present-day reality and historical mirage stretching to the horizon much as it did more than 150 years ago." "Today, the vast majority of what was an estimated 140 million to 170 million acres of tallgrass prairie is gone, plowed under by 19th century agricultural sprawl and the development that followed."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 03/05/2026Scientists Create Autism Panel, Citing RFK Jr.’s Politicization Of Research
"A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel Tuesday over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he oversees."
Source: Washington Post, 03/05/2026
