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• Home batteries are cheaper than ever – here’s what to consider before installing one
• This week’s Slate News Quiz tests your knowledge of the week’s news events
• Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals
• The President says he wants to stop wind and solar from wrecking the U.S. grid. Here's how to do it
• The White House Council on Environmental Quality is on the precipice of walking back every NEPA regulation issued since the 1970s
• Another fire breaks out at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities in California
• Stacey Abrams-Linked Group Received $2B From Biden Admin Slush Fund, DOGE Finds
• Trump needs Congress for sustainable progress on permitting reform - Washington Examiner
• D.C. prosecutor resigns over order to open criminal investigation into Biden-era climate contracts
• RFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
• Exposing Industrial Pollution and Creating the ‘Forever Chemicals’ Beat
• The insurance industry is exacerbating the climate crisis
• Death toll from Kentucky flooding rises to 11 as search and rescue operations continue
• The tiny reptile testing the “drill, baby, drill” agenda
• EPA head Lee Zeldin shows us good riddance to bad giveaways
• Forget global warming and rising NYC waters — New Yorkers still love living by the shore
• Trump’s reversals of Biden-era policies have throttled the federal response to climate change
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
• How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
• Trump’s pledge to get ‘back to plastic’ stokes debate about whether we’ve accepted too many ineffective environmental policies
• Mayotte has been French for longer than Nice. Why is it still treated with colonial arrogance? | Rokhaya Diallo
• Scores of local leaders urge Congress to protect Biden’s clean energy tax credits
• Judge Bibas: "Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does––even if it comes late, as it did here."
• Chinese Balloon Used American-Made Tech To Gather Intel, Analysis Finds
• The National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy held a symposium on the plight of LGBTQ people in STEM
• Trump signs executive order to end the government’s use of paper straws
• Noem says federal government needs to get 'out of the way' of recovery efforts
• One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
• Indiana legislators are trying to take control from local officials in the state's 92 counties
• Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward
• A Mathematician’s View of Evolution - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Caribbean, Tsunami Warnings Issued
• Half a Mile from the Flames: LA County’s Brush with Catastrophe Demonstrates the Urgent Need to Protect People in Jails and Prisons from Climate Change | ACLU
• An Ill Wind Blows Toward Offshore Turbines
• After years of feasting on EV subsidies, Elon Musk is now content to watch them die
• Missing Alaska Plane Found; Authorities Say There Are No Survivors
• Fifty shades of grey: how reusing water at home will make your garden thrive and help the planet
• The mad scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI
• Trump says he will sign an executive order ending the federal government’s ‘ridiculous’ push for paper straws
• There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It.
• It’s time for climate populism
• Southern California Edison says its equipment may have been involved in wildfires
• I paid the price for speaking out about “Sharpiegate.” Scientists can’t be silent now, either.
• Jeff Bezos' Earth Fund cuts off a key nonprofit monitoring corporate climate efforts
• “We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
• Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., introduces bill to provide foresters and land managers with resources to fight wildfires
• California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies, but Trump could give them more water
• Uncovering the Deforestation, Mismanagement, and Funders Behind a Malaysian Oil Palm Plantation
• Thank NY Democrats’ insane climate crusade for Con Ed’s huge rate hikes
• Some in Los Angeles wonder if postfire community spirit can be reflected in rebuilding public spaces
• DOGE invades NOAA, sparking fear of cuts and privatization
• Thought experiment 7: the Veil of Ignorance
• Cold Winters Mean Global Warming? In What World?
• How Trump’s EPA Threatens Efforts to Clean Up Areas Affected Most by Dangerous Air Pollution
• EPA Puts 1,100+ Employees On Notice, Warns They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
• Is California's progressive leaders the worst of the worst? William L. Anderson writes
• How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
• What’s behind the deadly, record-breaking floods in north Queensland? | Steve Turton for the Conversation
• Pray Marc Molinaro, heading the Federal Transit Administration, helps kill Hochul’s Midtown toll
• Zeldin’s nomination approved 56 to 42 with several Democrats voting in favor
• America’s fertility rate has dropped to a ‘historic low’. Here’s how to make America great again
• After DEI, the next frontier is ESG
• How can a new runway at Heathrow be good for the planet? | Observer letters
• Dems are finally getting the message on their NY climate agenda: Stand down!
• D.C. Circuit Declines to Reconsider Decision Concluding CEQ Lacks Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations
• California's wildfires exposed failings of the state's leadership
• With Trump's mass deportations, who will rebuild our disaster-stricken cities?
• Severe weather is increasing the cost of living for Black Americans
• Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.
• California politicians now want oil companies, not insurers, to subsidize people living in wildfire zones
• For scientists studying environmental health, Trump's diktats are a slow-moving disaster
• China's plan to build world's largest hydropower facility raises concerns
• New Zealand Scrapped All ‘Social Science’ Funding. Trump Could Too.
• Lee Zeldin received Senate confirmation to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday
• Oregon has been through the Spotted Owl debacle, which resulted in shutting down logging in Oregon. Where are we today?
• California’s Volunteer Fire Unit Vanishes From Web, Social Media After Controversial Dismantling
• Britain’s weather feels more erratic then ever. Is it really?
• What matters most in disaster reporting
• “A Crisis in World History” – Peter Mentzel
• California wildfires show blatant mainstream media failure
• The reactionary turn against nuclear power
• Blame Democratic Party incompetence for Palisades destruction - Washington Examiner
• Demonizing Heroic Private Firefighters - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Albany’s new fossil fuels ‘super-fund’ could hit consumers hard
• Wildfires have left Pacific Palisades looking like Dresden after WWII fire-bombings
• A growing number of U.S. corporations are exiting a left-wing climate cartel, House Judiciary Committee says
• Trump says he won’t meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom when he visits Los Angeles on Friday
• Exclusive: Records Detail Hefty Higher Ed DEI Spending
• Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
• Trump is threatening to hold wildfire aid hostage. Can he really do that?
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz? Good luck!
• It must be climate change!
• This is the most lethal wildfire season since records began, says Lucy Walker
• SoCal Fire Update: Another Blaze Erupts, Mudslides Feared
• California Democrats are clinging to climate change as a matter of political survival
• The 8 talking points fossil fuel interests use to obstruct climate action
• At long last, a president who cares about facts and science
• Why companies are ditching ESG
• Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
• 18 months after wildfires destroyed some 2,000 homes on Maui, only 3 have been rebuilt