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Environmental Politics

"Trump Orders The Government To Stop Enforcing Rules He Doesn’t Like"

"At the Transportation Department, enforcement of pipeline safety rules has plunged to unprecedented lows since President Donald Trump’s inauguration." "Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have routinely followed."

Source: Washington Post, 05/19/2025

"Many On Navajo Nation Blindsided By Hydrogen Pipeline Change"

"The company at the center of a controversial green energy project connecting New Mexico and Arizona has changed plans for a key component: A much-debated pipeline that would have carried climate-friendly hydrogen will instead carry natural gas, and possibly a natural gas-hydrogen blend at a future date. Unlike hydrogen, natural gas, blended or not, contributes to climate warming both in its production and when it is burned for energy."

Source: Capital & Main, 05/19/2025

"‘Nobody’s Seen It’: An Elusive Report Could Drive Empire Wind To Collapse"

"A massive New York offshore wind project may soon be abandoned mid-construction due to a mysterious report that few people in Washington appear to have seen except Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, one Fox News reporter, and the scientists who apparently wrote it."

Source: Canary Media, 05/19/2025

Puerto Rico: "Waiting, Often in the Dark, for Frozen E.P.A. Funds"

"The Trump administration is trying to claw back billions in climate grants, including $147 million that could help people in Puerto Rico withstand frequent power failures."

Source: NYTimes, 05/19/2025

"Republicans Attack Rules Designed to Keep Workers Safe From Heat"

"A warming climate exposes more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, yet soon after taking office, Donald Trump indefinitely froze a heat illness prevention rule proposed under the previous administration and gutted the only agency that studies workplace health and safety."

Source: Inside Climate News, 05/19/2025

Storms, Tornadoes Kill 28 In Kentucky, Missouri And Virginia

"Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods, still on edge Sunday for more severe weather ahead after storms that killed more than two dozen people as they swept through parts of the Midwest and South."

Source: AP, 05/19/2025

"China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon"

"China’s plans to build a massive hydro project in Tibet have sparked fears about the environmental impacts on the world’s longest and deepest canyon. It has also alarmed neighboring India, which fears that China could hold back or even weaponize river water it depends on."

Source: YaleE360, 05/16/2025

"Trump Administration Moves to End Major Conservation Rule"

"The Trump administration is set to reverse a sweeping conservation rule for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the latest in a series of actions to reverse Biden-era environmental protections. Announced without much public fanfare in early April, the sudden reversal of the rule, which sought to put conservation on an equal playing field with industrial activities, is a blow to conservation efforts, said environmental groups."

Source: Sierra, 05/16/2025

"Trump Admin Moves to 'Neuter' America's Most Important Wildlife Law"

"For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped scores of species — from whooping cranes to red wolves to California condors — claw their way back from the edge of extinction. Its success has made it supremely popular with the American public — far more popular, for instance, than Congress. But now, like all those species it helps protect, the law itself is in grave peril. The Trump administration, Congress, and their allies have launched a barrage of legislation, litigation and regulatory maneuvers in recent months that together could tear the teeth out of our most powerful wildlife conservation statute."

Source: Public Domain, 05/16/2025

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