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Trump EPA Aims To Cut Pollution Rules Projected To Save Nearly 200,000 Lives

"A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead."

Source: Guardian, 03/20/2025

"Fishermen Want To Go Green But Say DOGE Cuts Prevent That"

"Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors looking to switch to new, lower-carbon emission systems say the federal funding they relied on for this work is either frozen or unavailable due to significant budget cuts promoted by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency."

Source: AP, 03/20/2025

N. Carolina Lawmakers Approve Additional $528M For Hurricane Helene Recovery

"North Carolina lawmakers agreed Wednesday to spend another $528 million on still-pressing needs from Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding nearly six months ago, with an emphasis on home and private road repairs, agriculture and infrastructure to aid businesses."

Source: AP, 03/20/2025

"New Study Reinforces Worries About Pulses of Rapid Sea Level Rise"

"A new analysis of ancient layers of peat at the bottom of the North Sea will help scientists more accurately project how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries. The research shows how fast sea level rose about 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the last time Earth warmed as fast as it is warming now."

Source: Inside Climate News, 03/20/2025

Over 150 ‘Unprecedented’ Climate Disasters Struck World In 2024, Says UN

"The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization."

Source: Guardian, 03/20/2025

"Uranium Waste Threatens A Western New Mexico Region's Last Clean Aquifer"

"Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region"

Source: Searchlight New Mexico, 03/20/2025

"Greenpeace Must Pay At Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury"

"A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago."

Source: Guardian, 03/20/2025

"‘Our People Are Hungry’: What Federal Food Aid Cuts Mean In A Warming World"

"Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though their contents are always a surprise, as the retired mechanic describes it, he’s able to get “fresh produce and stuff that a lot of us can’t afford because of the price of groceries.”"

Source: Grist, 03/19/2025

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