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Trump's EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

The EPA is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Ugh.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Impacted programs include:

-Rural Energy For America Program (REAP)
-Empowering Rural America (New ERA)
-Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) programs

Farmers Still Owed Hundreds of Millions in REAP Payments After Federal Freeze   | The Daily Yonder Kevin Leavitt was just days away from getting reimbursed by the U.S. government for $48,000 when the Trump administration signed an executive order

Rural Energy for America (REAP) is *still* frozen, with thousands of farmers and small businesses in the lurch.
dailyyonder.com/farmers-stil...

Meet Our Members | House Committee on Natural Resources The House Committee on Natural Resources membership: Republican Members Bruce Westerman Chairman Arkansas, 4th District Rob Wittman Vice Chairman Virginia, 1st District Tom McClintock California, 5th ...

The Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammals Protection Act are at risk. This morning the House Comm. on Natural Resources held a hearing on these Acts.
Please call Republicans on the comm., especially if they are your rep (see below). Will post script.
naturalresources.house.gov/about/member...

I’m not an educator or an expert by any means, so if you have questions, I’d recommend doing some research and reaching out to more knowledgeable experts.

I’ll do my best, though, if you do have questions.

Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...

Knew it was coming at some point. Still, individual agencies have their own policies and states have their SEPAs.

Nervous for the future of NEPA. Both for myself professionally, but also what this means for the future of environmental protection.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

EPA spending freeze continues despite court orders Two judges have ordered the administration to lift the freeze. But nonprofits and states still can't get money for contracts backed by the Inflation Reduction Act.

EPA spending freeze continues despite court orders.
Two judges have ordered the administration to lift the freeze. But nonprofits and states still can’t get money for contracts backed by the Inflation Reduction Act.
www.politico.com/new...