Trump's environmental policies mean dirtier air for CT CT's air quality had improved over 50 years of increasingly rigorous federal regulations and enforcement. That progress is now under assault.

Deep breaths - if you can.

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands - Inside Climate News An Interior Department proposal would cancel BLM grazing leases for American Prairie's buffalo in Montana, but it could affect tribal and private herds across the West.

Appalling insideclimatenews.org/news/0504202...

The public got one week to comment on Chaco Canyon drilling. It’s almost over - High Country News Indigenous leaders, New Mexico political leaders accuse feds of rushing a decision about the sacred site.

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The Trump administration is slashing food stamps. Here's what they're buying instead. A handmade Japanese flute. Fruit basket stands. Sushi prep tables. While four million Americans face losing food assistance, the Pentagon recently had its largest single-month spending spree on…

The shopping list included luxury items like $6.9 million for lobster tail, $15.1 million in ribeye steak, and $2 million for Alaskan king crab, as well as musical instruments ($21,750 for a custom handmade Japanese flute), ice cream machines ($124,000), and sushi prep tables ($26,000).

E.P.A. Chief to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis

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CBS News will end radio service as Weiss struggles to right ship The troubled network is eliminating its century-old CBS News Radio division and laying off more staff.

No words

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CT helps lead legal challenge to repeal of endangerment finding A coalition of states and cities filed suit against the EPA contending that rescinding the so-called endangerment finding is unlawful.

And it's off to court again - likely SCOTUS-bound ctmirror.org/2026/03/19/c...

CT helps lead legal challenge to repeal of endangerment finding A coalition of states and cities filed suit against the EPA contending that rescinding the so-called endangerment finding is unlawful.

And it's off to court again - likely SCOTUS-bound ctmirror.org/2026/03/19/c...

Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers

Well, well, well - or more to the point, no well. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Headline card with text at the top that reads: "The US is moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say". A photo below shows people protesting Donald Trump's immigration policies and holding signs.

All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.

Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations (1) The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers—a step outside attorneys...

All DOJ lawyers are members of a state or DC bar, and subject to its ethics rules and penalties, up to disbarment. Subverting state bar authorities would give DOJ lawyers carte blanche to violate ethics rules. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Can geothermal technology solve the CT electricity problem? A project underway in New Haven shows the potential of the system, which harnesses heat beneath the earth. But it's not suitable everywhere.

The answer is ...

Can geothermal technology solve the CT electricity problem? A project underway in New Haven shows the potential of the system, which harnesses heat beneath the earth. But it's not suitable everywhere.

The answer is ...

'Endangerment finding' repealed; CT promises legal battle The Environmental Protection Agency revoked its own determination that required it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Some important legal analysis in here.

'Endangerment finding' repealed; CT promises legal battle The Environmental Protection Agency revoked its own determination that required it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Some important legal analysis in here.

Thin natural gas will be cheap? Probably not.

Trump favors natural gas. What does that mean for CT? In some circles natural gas is viewed as the holy grail. In others it's a climate change nightmare. And then there’s everything in between.

Or the rest of the northeast.

Trump favors natural gas. What does that mean for CT? In some circles natural gas is viewed as the holy grail. In others it's a climate change nightmare. And then there’s everything in between.

Or the rest of the northeast.

The head of the E.P.A.’s air and radiation office, Aaron Szabo, said at his Senate confirmation hearing that he had a personal stake in clean-air rules because he suffers from cystic fibrosis. “Because of my lung disease, I have always been acutely aware of air quality,” he said. Mr. Szabo is a former registered lobbyist for the oil and chemical industries. His clients at the firm Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath included the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade association for oil refiners that has opposed stricter PM2.5 standards.

The guy dismantling air pollution regulations at EPA has cystic fibrosis, a condition severely worsened by air pollution

No one is going to tune in to CBS because they know it won’t be critical of Trump but lots of people will tune out for that reason. Spiking the CECOT story to curry favor is a terrible moral and journalistic decision — but it’s also a terrible business decision.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Stone tablets and chisels, anyone?

Stone tablets and chisels, anyone?

Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times ...

Read this. And then read it again. And again. It gets more shameful each time.

Could CT have a nuclear energy future? Not if you’re in a rush The owner of the one nuclear station in CT sees the challenges of building new nuclear here. If those could be overcome, it would be a long way off.

SMRs may be all the rage - it would help if they existed.

Could CT have a nuclear energy future? Not if you’re in a rush The owner of the one nuclear station in CT sees the challenges of building new nuclear here. If those could be overcome, it would be a long way off.

SMRs may be all the rage - it would help if they existed.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

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