Class-Action Suit Would Force EPA To Reinstate $3bn Climate Justice Program
"Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants"
Source: Guardian, 08/07/2025
Search results
"Burgum Nixes ‘Thoughtless’ Biden Approval Of Idaho Wind Farm"
"The Interior Department reversed the Biden-era approval of a contentious wind project in southern Idaho on Wednesday, part of a broader Trump administration effort to shift development on public lands away from renewable energy."
Source: E&E News, 08/07/2025
"At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators"
"The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by a number of environmental hazards like hurricanes, intense heat and even wildfires."
Source: NYTimes, 08/07/2025
Trump Admin Memo Urges Nations To Reject Plastic Production Caps In Treaty
"The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that includes limits on plastic production and plastic chemical additives at the start of U.N. plastic treaty talks in Geneva, according to a memo and communications seen by Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 08/07/2025
Court Temporarily Blocks Trump From Reallocating FEMA Preparedness Funds
"A federal court on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from reallocating funds used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help communities prevent future storm damage."
Source: The Hill, 08/06/2025
Trump Reshaped Climate Program To Extract More Oil. Occidental Could Profit
"Occidental Petroleum could benefit from bigger subsidies for using carbon dioxide to squeeze more crude from sputtering wells."
Source: E&E News, 08/06/2025
Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site and Protected Forest
"To offset Resolution Copper’s impacts on the hallowed ground of Oak Flat, the federal government will take possession of a rare old-growth mesquite forest. But it already approved exploratory drilling for another mine nearby."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/06/2025
"Another Burgum Order Coldcocks Solar And Wind"
"An order issued late Friday by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that targets wind and solar development has left renewable energy developers and industry observers scrambling to determine whether green energy has any future in the Trump administration."
Source: E&E News, 08/06/2025
"E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy"
"The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter."
Source: NYTimes, 08/06/2025
Nations Gather In Geneva To Again Confront The World’s Plastic Crisis
"Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet."
Source: AP, 08/06/2025
