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Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

© National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative

Recovering a surface buoy — part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean — from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
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A Clean Energy PAC Helped Beat Chip Roy, and Now It Has New Targets

A PAC representing wind and solar energy interests spent $1.1 million to boost the Republican primary opponent of Chip Roy, an opponent of renewables. Now they are trying to save a Republican ally in Iowa.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

A group of renewable energy investors paid for this projection on the side of the Energy Department building in Washington gloating over Representative Chip Roy’s defeat in a Republican primary for Texas attorney general.
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E.P.A. to Repeal Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

The rules were established by the Biden administration after research linked the compounds to a range of serious health problems.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has argued that the agency made a procedural error when it established the drinking water standards in 2024.
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Trump Eases Restrictions on Climate ‘Super Pollutants’

The administration is delaying a phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons, potent planet-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration.

© Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

Replacing an air conditioning unit outside a home in western Pennsylvania during a heat wave last June.
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