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EPA faces multi-state lawsuit over canceled grants for solar power

The EPA "illegally terminated" a program designed to bring low-cost solar energy to over 900,000 low-income households, suit says.

Axios

State attorneys general sue Trump administration for canceled solar program funding

The attorneys general of more than a dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the U.S. The coalition argued in the lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency’s cancellation of the Solar for All program…

The Independent UK

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

The Independent UK

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Bipartisan congressional coalition supports EPA biofuels plan - Roll Call

Almost 50 members of Congress from both parties are urging the EPA to discourage the use of imports in the biofuels market.

Roll Call

EPA's job is to protect America's air, water and land. Here's how a shutdown affects that effort

The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown

The Independent UK

Trump administration opens more land for coal mining, offers $625M to boost coal-fired power plants

The Trump administration said it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants

The Independent UK

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water

As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block. But even before Congress decides about the administration’s recommendations to slash its staff, the EPA’s political leaders have made even more significant cuts…

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Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future?

Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored.

Capital & Main

Trump EPA officials order scientists at Office of Water to stop publishing research, report says

The Environmental Protection Agency called the report ‘patently false' and insisted 'great scientific work' was continuing

The Independent UK

Why Trying to Undo the Endangerment Finding Is A High-Risk (and Low-Reward) Deregulatory Strategy

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says the Endangerment Finding is the "holy grail" of climate policy. Perhaps it's really they great white whale.

Reason

The EPA wants to end a requirement that large polluters report their greenhouse gas emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial polluters to report their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the government

The Independent UK

US Moves To Scrap Emissions Reporting By Polluters

The United States moved on Friday to dismantle a "burdensome" federal program that tracks greenhouse gas emissions across the US economy, the latest step by President Donald Trump's administration to undercut efforts against climate change.

International Business Times

Texas solar program left in limbo after Trump administration pulls the plug on $250 million grant

Texas’ Solar for All program was intended to bring solar panels and batteries to low-income neighborhoods and create jobs by training workers to install the technology.

The Texas Tribune

‘I am for whatever President Trump is for’: Spineless Trump official says the quiet part loud, proves it’s a cult

Good god man, have some dignity!

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The Independent UK

Appeals court allows Trump administration to end the ‘climate bank’ where $20B was set aside to fund climate change projects

Billions of dollars have been sitting in Citibank accounts since February amid the back-and-forth legal battle

Al Jazeera

US appeals court allows Trump to peel back $20bn in clean energy grants

The ruling overturns a lower-court decision that found Trump was impeding Congress’s power to allocate funding.

The Independent UK

EPA fires employees who publicly criticized agency policies under Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency has fired at least eight employees who signed a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership under Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump

The Texas Tribune

Texas power plants and chemical companies benefit as Trump eases pollution rules, experts say

A two-year delay on new mercury rules benefits coal-fired power plants, while chemical plants got an exemption from stricter air pollution standards.

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The Conversation

Like Reagan, Trump is slashing US environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact

When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”

Capital & Main

Trump Administration Gives Coal Plants and Chemical Facilities a Pass

In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emission rules.

The Guardian - AU

Chevron boss’s gripe about Australia: be more like the US or the Middle East

Mike Wirth, CEO of company responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other independently owned entity, thinks Australia should adopt US policies to attract fossil fuel dollars

Fortune

Patagonia CEO: The EPA is ‘endangering’ America’s businesses on climate

Instead of delivering on environmental protection, the head of the EPA is talking about gas prices.

The Guardian - US

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program

Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments sued EPA chief for halting climate justice grants

The Guardian - US

Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

EPA tries to rescind ‘endangerment finding’ – part of ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda that experts say poses grave threat

Benzinga

Trump EPA Wants To Overturn 2009 Endangerment Finding That Controls Carbon Emissions To End '16 Years Of Uncertainty For Automakers'

The Trump administration's EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency, has announced a proposal to overturn 2009's Endangerment Finding, which forms the basis of key climate action initiatives as well as curbs on carbon emissions.

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