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3M Settles for $450 M to Address New Jersey PFAS Pollution
New Jersey, USA: 3M agreed to a $450 million settlement with the state of New Jersey to address decades of contamination from PFAS chemicals,...
US Wildfire Damage Tracking Gaps Spark Fear of Rising Costs
Los Angeles, California: Wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres in 2025, yet it’s getting harder to tally just how devastating they...
EPA Withholds Emissions Report, So Environmental Group Releases It
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unexpectedly withheld its annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory and declined to submit the data to the United...
Northwest States’ Green Energy Goals Stall for Lack of Power Lines
Oregon and Washington have passed ambitious laws to achieve carbon-free electricity but are struggling to build the actual infrastructure...
Industry groups fight to save Energy Star program as EPA plans shutdown
A broad coalition of manufacturers and environmental advocates is challenging the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate the long-standing...
EPA Halts $18 Million Compost Project, Alarms Activists
Providence, R.I., USA - Under the Trump administration, the EPA abruptly canceled an $18 million grant for a community-led compost program in...
FEMA Chief Fired After Defending Agency’s Climate Readiness on Hill
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has been abruptly removed by President Trump days after she testified about rising climate-driven disasters....
New LNG Terminal OK’d as Trump Scraps Regulations
Louisiana has approved construction for a fifth LNG export terminal, backed by the administration’s fast-track policy for fossil fuel projects....
Summer 2025 to Bring Scorching Heat and Hurricanes
Forecasters predict a fiercely hot summer with above-normal temperatures across most U.S. regions and potentially 10 Atlantic hurricanes....
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