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1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Peter Behr |Hannah Northey |Sean Reilly

CLIMATEWIRE | President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an unprecedented peacetime intervention in the electricity sector, using executive orders to force aging coal-burning plants to stay open and feed soaring energy demand from American tech companies. At a White House signing ceremony that resembled a campaign-style rally, Trump signed orders squarely aimed at reviving coal mining and coal power, which have both been in decline for more than a decade.

Mar 4, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Sean Reilly

Share Federal judges have nixed EPA’s bid to freeze proceedings in high-stakes litigation over strengthened regulations on releases of a potent carcinogen. In a brief order issued Tuesday afternoon, a divided three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the agency’s motion for a 60-day pause in the competing legal challenges to the updated rules for dozens of plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment.

Jan 28, 2025 | politico.com | Sean Reilly

The move echoes an approach taken under former President Joe Biden. EPA's acting administration has dismissed members of two science advisory panels. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump’s administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees.

Nov 27, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Sean Reilly

Share EPA is set to release a reworked justification for its “good neighbor” smog control plan aimed at addressing objections that led to a Supreme Court stay. The White House regulations office Tuesday completed a routine review of what EPA has elsewhere dubbed a “supplemental final action,” according to a notice posted on a government tracking website. An agency spokesperson had no immediate information Wednesday on when the supplement will be made public.

Oct 8, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Sean Reilly

ShareA landmark environmental racism case that will impact “Cancer Alley” residents and potentially the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda may hinge on a legal rigidity: the statute of limitations. “It’s a hefty case” with “very interesting” issues, Judge Carl Stewart of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday as the oral arguments ended after about 50 minutes.