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  1. EPA Repeals Regulations for Mercury and Toxic Air Pollutants From Power Plants

    Environmental and health groups said the rule will make people sicker and supports a dying industry.

    murica.website/2026/02/epa-rep

  2. 🎶 "I said money, money changes everything
    We think we know what we're doin'
    That don't mean a thing
    It's all in the past now
    Money changes everything..."🎵

    From pro-climate Republican to ‘one of the #Trump disruptors’

    #EPA Administrator #LeeZeldin's attacks on his agency's spending and regulations have made him a rising star in the Trump Cabinet, but left some former colleagues mystified.

    By Hannah Northey, Emily Ngo, Josh Siegel and Miranda Willson
    04/06/2025

    Excerpt: "Others who have known Zeldin wonder what happened to the middle-of-the-road lawmaker they once knew, who acknowledged that humans were warming the Earth and bucked Trump’s first administration on offshore oil drilling."

    Read more:
    politico.com/news/2025/04/06/z

    #EPAFail #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #ClimateChange #USPol #WorldPol #Oiligarchy #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism

  3. The order late Tues by Judge #Chutkan “gives us a chance to breathe after the EPA unlawfully — & w/o #DueProcess — terminated our awards & blocked access to funds that were appropriated by #Congress & legally obligated,” said #ClimateUnited CEO Beth Bafford.

    The lawsuit by Climate United Fund & other groups contends that the #EPA, Admin #LeeZeldin & #Citibank, which held the money, illegally blocked the funds awarded last year & had jeopardized the organizations’ operations.

    #law #USpol #Trump

  4. The order by US Dist Judge #Chutkan prevents—for now—the #EPA from ending the $20B #grant program.

    Chutkan's order also blocks #Citibank, which holds the money on behalf of the EPA, from transferring the money back to the govt or anyone.

    #ClimateUnitedFund & other groups sued #Trump’s EPA, its admin #LeeZeldin & Citibank, saying they had illegally denied the groups access to $14B awarded last year through the #GreenhouseGas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a “green bank."

    #law #climate