Climate Regulation
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The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost?
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The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
Inside the little-understood fight between deep sea miners and Indigenous advocates for the ocean.
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1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones
After the L.A. fires, updated hazard maps show “we are living in a new reality of extremes."
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The $20B question hanging over America’s struggling farmers
Extreme weather wiped out billions in crops last year — but most federal aid may end up going to the wrong farms.
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Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap?
Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed.
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Farmers are reeling from Trump’s attacks on agricultural research
A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation.
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Trump administration moves to shutter mine safety offices in coal country
Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.
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Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
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The EPA wants to roll back a rule that’s essential for protecting you from chemical disasters
Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their political whims.
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‘Caught off guard’: EPA proposes to fire hundreds of scientists
“This is not designed to cut expenses, it's designed to destroy,” one official said.