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National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dylan Baddour

America’s 34th annual National Parks Week will feature dramatically scaled back staffing and services at national parks and forests following weeks of slashing by the Trump Administration. Friday, the day before parks week begins, was the Trump administration’s deadline for federal employees to voluntarily resign in exchange for paid leave—an offer that was overturned and then reinstated by courts. Last week, a court also reinstated the administration’s order to fire all probationary employees.
Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders Expected on Earth Day

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Marianne Lavelle |Lee Hedgepeth

Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for what could be an Earth Day onslaught. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing various executive orders on environmental issues, possibly to be announced on Tuesday, to coincide with Earth Day.
Federal Judge Orders Florida to Address Pollution That Led to Manatee Deaths

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Amy Green

The state of Florida is in violation of the Endangered Species Act and must develop a plan for addressing the pollution that led in recent years to an unprecedented die-off of manatees, a federal judge has ruled. The litigation is centered on state wastewater discharge regulations that have failed to control nutrient pollution in the Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile estuary on Florida’s east coast that is among the most biodiverse on the continent.
As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup

6 days ago | insideclimatenews.org | Phil McKenna

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding information from a small geoengineering startup company it says is launching pollution into the air.
A Father of Environmental Justice Rebukes Sierra Club, Ben Jealous Over Treatment of Black Alabamians

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Lee Hedgepeth

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves. Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of the Shiloh Community in south Alabama, has led more politicians and environmental leaders on neighborhood tours than he can count.
EV Sales Are Up in the US, But Tariffs Are a Storm Cloud for an Industry That Craves Stability

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dan Gearino

It’s a rough time to be in the automobile industry. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are punching holes in plans that took years to develop regarding global supply chains and managing the long-term shift to electric vehicles. And then, on April 14, Trump suggested he might pause a 25 percent tariff on imported cars that took effect on April 3 and a 25 percent tariff on imported auto parts that is scheduled to take effect in early May.
More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dan Gearino

Included in the Trump administration’s order last week to boost the coal industry was a two-year exemption to a rule that would have forced some of the nation’s most polluting power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other air toxics. The ramifications of this exemption are beginning to sink in for people across the country who saw the mercury rule, updated and enhanced last year by the Biden administration, as a crucial part of reducing the harm of these power plants.
Half the World’s People Depend on Rice. New Research Says Climate Change Will Make it Toxic

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Georgina Gustin

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published Wednesday in The Lancet. Eaten every day by billions of people and grown across the globe, rice is arguably the planet’s most important staple crop, with half the relying on it for the majority of its food needs, especially in developing countries.
Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Martha Pskowski

Aghorn Operating Inc., a Texas oilfield company, and its vice president pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges resulting from the death of a worker and his wife in 2019 near Odessa. Aghorn will pay $1 million in fines and a services company, Kodiak Roustabout Inc., will pay an additional $400,000. Aghorn vice president Trent Day was sentenced to five months in prison. The charges in United States v. Aghorn Operating, Inc. stemmed from the Oct.
The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Phil McKenna |Peter Aldhous

CAMERON, La.—For a ship the length of nearly three football fields, Energy Intelligence seemed to turn on a dime. With tugboats pushing and pulling at its bow and stern, the 295-meter liquefied natural gas tanker pivoted 180 degrees in the brackish waters of the Calcasieu Ship Channel in late February, preparing to refuel for a trip to the Netherlands.