"Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

"For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Fair.org:
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Washington Post Promotes Nuclear Agenda Tied to Bezos’ Investments
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".. Post has devoted four editorials to supporting the expansion of nuclear energy in the past three months, relying on factual errors and distortions .."

https://fair.org/home/washington-post-promotes-nuclear-agenda-tied-to-bezos-investments/

1.4.2026

#Amazon #Bezos #ClimateChange #CommonwealthEdison #EPA #Exelon #LNT #NRC #NuclearPower #NuclearSafety #NuclearWaste #Plutonium #TerraPower #USA #VCSummer #Vogtle #WashingtonPost #XEnergy

First, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. He helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

Then he became a top official at the EPA and now he is doing Big Oil’s dirty work from inside the EPA.

"In his current role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, Szabo has been soliciting input and even specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc

#EPA #corruption #oil #politics