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"These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs."

"For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”"

"An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that a single year of greenhouse gas emissions from tankers carrying LNG from the United States more than cancels out the annual reductions achieved through driving all the electric vehicles currently on U.S. roads."

"By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades."

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given a former oil executive and aide to Elon Musk broad latitude to cut costs and consolidate work within his vast department, which oversees more than 500 million acres of land across the United States."

"A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts."

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he does not think the government should broadly reconsider climate advocacy groups’ tax-exempt status." "The EPA administrator also signaled that he was not in a rush to announce reduction-in-force plans, saying,“We’re just trying to get it right.”" 

"Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”."

"The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts. Florida Bay, a body of water located between the southern end of mainland Florida and the Florida Keys, makes up about a third of Everglades National Park."

"U.S. oil producers are stuck between President Donald Trump’s policies, benefiting from relaxed environmental regulations but facing weakening oil prices as tariffs weigh on the global economy."