Climate Change

DRC Opens Gorilla Habitats And Pristine Forest To Oil And Gas Drilling Bids

"The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks."

Source: Guardian, 07/31/2025

"The EU’s ‘Fantasy’ $750B Energy Promise To Trump"

"The EU has narrowly avoided a full-blown trade war with Donald Trump by pledging to buy $750 billion of U.S. oil and gas by the end of his term. But achieving that will be almost impossible."

Source: Politico, 07/31/2025

Resignation of Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence

"NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo “apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics.”" 

"A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence.

Source: Mother Jones, 07/31/2025

EPA Climate Rollback Based On Document Authored By 5 Climate Contrarians

"In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced." "The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change."

Source: CNN, 07/31/2025

"These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email."

"In March, the Trump administration created a novel way for companies to potentially avoid complying with environmental rules: Simply send an email to the Environmental Protection Agency and request an exemption. In response, representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2025

"How Rollins’ USDA Is Endangering American Agriculture"

"Brooke Rollins believes she is waging a new American Revolution, leading a crusade against Biblical darkness and guiding U.S. agriculture into a “golden age.” In her first six months as the nation’s top agriculture official, Rollins has reshaped the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s focus — “more farmer, less climate,” she summarized."

Source: Investgate Midwest, 07/30/2025

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