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![Closeup of a FEMA patch on an officer's jacket]()
FEMA is ending door-to-door canvassing in disaster areas
As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas.
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![compactor machine on top of pile of waste at landfill with large flock of seagulls flying above]()
![compactor machine on top of pile of waste at landfill with large flock of seagulls flying above]()
An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
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Trump calls program to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills ‘unnecessary’
First, the administration laid off all of the program's staffers. Now the White House is proposing cutting its funding.
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![Cameron Hamilton, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testifies to members of Congress.]()
![Cameron Hamilton, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testifies to members of Congress.]()
The head of FEMA defended the agency on Capitol Hill. Trump fired him.
FEMA’s shake-up follows the cancellation of key climate resilience programs and growing uncertainty over the agency’s future.
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![An Energy Star label is displayed on a new washing machine at a Best Buy store as a shopper in the background considers washing machines.]()
![An Energy Star label is displayed on a new washing machine at a Best Buy store as a shopper in the background considers washing machines.]()
How Trump’s latest rollback could raise your utility bills
The Energy Star program has quietly saved Americans billions in energy costs and has slashed emissions. Now it's now on the chopping block.
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![Flares of light against a red sky.]()
Louisiana already has 4 LNG terminals. It just added another.
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
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![A sign displays a hurricane warning along a roadside as preparations are made for the arrival of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Florida on September 25, 2024.]()
![A sign displays a hurricane warning along a roadside as preparations are made for the arrival of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Florida on September 25, 2024.]()
The National Weather Service is once again translating lifesaving alerts. What happened?
Political pressures may have driven the federal agency to backtrack on its decision to suspend automated weather translations.
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![Senator Raphael Warnock at a podium against a dark background with blurred lights]()
![Senator Raphael Warnock at a podium against a dark background with blurred lights]()
In Georgia, a fight over credit for its clean energy boom
According to a new report by Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, some 42,000 jobs are now at risk, as Republicans consider repealing IRA tax credits to pay for President Trump’s proposed tax cuts.
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Trump promised to help Big Oil. Its revenues plummeted.
“I have never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus-year career.”
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![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days
The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened.
