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Environment: Trump administration sued to restore websites for reporting climate and pollution impacts

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Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts - Inside Climate News The removal of websites designed to help disadvantaged communities will hurt those communities the most, lawyers argue. Derek Harrison Inside Climate News

 

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Climate change dropped from U.S. intelligence agencies' anual threat assement in 2nd Trump adminstration's first report.

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Climate change taken off spy agencies' global threat list Climate change has been included in annual threat assessments since 2009, in one form or another. Andrew Freedman Axios
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

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NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research. Annie Waldman,Sharon Lerner ProPublica
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Major Investments Are Key To Preventing Climate Displacement-- UN report

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Major Investments Are Key To Preventing Climate Displacement, Says UN While developed countries fret about an 'influx' of climate refugees, developing countries are already grappling with the realities of climate displacement. Frey Lindsay Forbes
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Opinion: Trump's cuts to climate change programs can be costly.

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Trump is tackling every ‘emergency’ except the important one — climate change While Team Trump dwells inside their bubble of false facts and alternative realities, the rest of America is experiencing a relentless succession of tragedies. The human and economic costs are deva… ckulat The Hill
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Record temperatuires last year accelerated rise in sea levels and approach to key warming threshold --U.N.

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Record 2024 temperatures accelerate ice loss, rise in sea levels, UN weather body says

SINGAPORE, March 19 (Reuters) - Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, raising sea levels and edging the world closer to a key warming threshold, the U.N. weather body said on Wednesday.
 
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Trump administration escalates efforts to take back $20B from nonprofits involved in climate issue

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Trump officials escalate fight to take back $20B in climate money The Justice Department is demanding documents from nonprofits that were awarded the money through the Inflation Reduction Act. Jean Chemnick Politico
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U.S. Eviornmental Protection Agency chief announced rollback of climate change and other regulations

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EPA head says he'll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles. AP News
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Trump Juistice Department steps up efforts to reclaim funding for climate change programs

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Trump officials escalate fight to take back $20B in climate money The Justice Department is demanding documents from nonprofits that were awarded the money through the Inflation Reduction Act. Jean Chemnick Politico
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City fires are likely to increase with climate change--study

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City fires are likely to increase with climate change, modeling study warns The frequency of some types of fires in cities as a result of climate change is projected to increase in the coming decades, according to a modeling study published in Nature Cities. The findings are ... Nature Publishing Group Phys.org

... The findings are based on data from 2,847 cities in 20 countries and could be useful for future urban planning and emergency response strategies.

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