"Eight Of The Top 10 Online Shows Are Spreading Climate Misinformation"
"Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/15/2025
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"Republicans’ ‘Clearly Unprecedented’ Gambit To Kill Climate Programs"
"The House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to use the budget process to repeal program authorizations. That may not fly in the Senate."
Source: E&E News, 05/15/2025"Trump’s ‘Fear Factor’: Scientists Go Silent As Funding Cuts Escalate"
"In February, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Rebekah Tromble launched a program to advise scientists and journalists targeted for intimidation and harassment. But she announced it quietly, fearing the very kind of attacks the initiative was meant to counter."
Source: Science, 05/15/2025House Natural Resources Chair’s Oil Stock Purchases Were Unusual For Panel
"Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) bought stock in a dozen mining, oil and gas giants two months before ramming an industry-friendly budget bill through his committee."
Source: Public Domain, 05/14/2025"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."
Source: AP, 05/14/2025"FEMA Cuts Emergency Training As Hurricane Season Looms"
"The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to current and former officials, memos seen by Reuters, and three sources familiar with the situation."
Source: Reuters, 05/14/2025"Trump Administration to Fast-Track Permits for Utah Uranium Mine"
"The Interior Department said it would fast-track the permitting process for a uranium mine in Utah as part of President Trump’s plan to shorten environmental reviews and speed the construction of certain types of energy projects." "An environmental review of the project, known as Velvet-Wood, would normally take roughly a year. The government says it will complete the process in two weeks."
Source: NYTimes, 05/14/2025Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database
"Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters."
Source: Reuters, 05/14/2025"Senate Republicans Balk at House Plan to Gut Energy Tax Cuts"
"Key Senate Republicans are resisting the House’s plan to gut clean energy tax credits, vowing to soften the blow for emerging technologies. The pushback comes just a day after House Republicans released a plan to help pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts by cutting more than $500 billion in energy tax credits from former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/14/2025"Trump Promised U.S. Dominance. Instead, Energy Companies Are Faltering."
"President Donald Trump promised to unleash an energy renaissance that would lock in U.S. dominance over oil and gas. But that is not how things are working out for America’s drillers, fracking firms and equipment suppliers, including the company founded by Trump’s own energy secretary."
Source: Washington Post, 05/14/2025Project To Raise California’s Shasta Dam Could Move Forward Under Trump
"Enlarging the dam would deliver more Sacramento River water to Central Valley farmers but a tribe could lose sacred sites and endangered salmon could lose habitat in wet years."
Source: CalMatters, 05/14/2025House GOP Targets Clean Energy Tax Credits And Pollution Rules In Budget Bill
"House Republicans are calling for billions of dollars in funding cuts for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits, as lawmakers seek to reverse what one GOP leader called “the most reckless parts of the engorged climate spending” approved under former President Joe Biden."
Source: AP, 05/13/2025"The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals"
"Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals."
Source: WIRED, 05/13/2025"What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero."
"The Trump administration has directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations."
Source: NYTimes, 05/13/2025"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency"
"Political leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have told scientists there to apply to new jobs, implying that those who do not may be fired, according to an official with a union representing the agency’s employees."
Source: The Hill, 05/13/2025
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