Mastodawn

🚨 BREAKING: Who would've guessed that the EPA's #methane 'regulator' was actually moonlighting as an oil industry ghostwriter? 🤡 It's like hiring a fox to guard the henhouse and then being surprised when feathers fly! 🦊🥚
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc #EPA #Scandal #OilIndustry #Ghostwriter #Regulation #EnvironmentalConcerns #HenhouseGuard #HackerNews #ngated

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

ProPublica

Hacker News 13h ago

EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regs Wrote Oil Industry Argument Against Them

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

#HackerNews #EPA #Methane #Regs #Oil #Industry #Deregulation #EnvironmentalPolicy #ProPublica

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

ProPublica

Tina M Casey 15h ago

A green hydrogen project survived the Trump chopper, so far.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/04/superfund-site-still-on-track-for-solar-power-green-hydrogen/

#superfund #epa #solar #solarpower #solarenergy #solarpowerplant #hydrogen #greenhydrogen #h2 #cleanhydrogen #renewable #renewables #us #energypolicy #energy #energystorage #fuelcells #sustainable #sustainability

Superfund Site Still On Track To Produce Green Hydrogen

A Superfund site in New Mexico will soon host a 50-megawatt solar array, earmarked to produce green hydrogen for night-time clean power.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey 15h ago

A green hydrogen project survived the Trump chopper, so far.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/04/superfund-site-still-on-track-for-solar-power-green-hydrogen/

Superfund Site Still On Track To Produce Green Hydrogen

A Superfund site in New Mexico will soon host a 50-megawatt solar array, earmarked to produce green hydrogen for night-time clean power.

CleanTechnica

Henk Prins 1d ago

Lees tip -> Trump wil fors meer geld voor defensie, de 'Amerikaan' moet er voor bloeden | Witte Huis wil recordbedrag voor defensie en tegelijk stevig snijden in binnenlandse uitgaven. | #DonaldTrump #defensiebegroting #binnenlandseuitgaven #begroting2027 #VerenigdeStaten #Congres #NASA #EPA #WitteHuis |

https://hbpmedia.nl/trump-wil-fors-meer-geld-voor-defensie-de-amerikaan-moet-er-voor-bloeden/

petersuber 1d ago

"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

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Arthur Zork (They/CyberNinja)2d ago

"Fiscally Conservative" #MAGA #Republican #POTUS #DonaldTrump unveils his $1.5 trillion taxpayer funded #2027budget with HUGE boost in #Pentagon spending for his illegal #IranWar while slashing #healthcare, #cleanEnergy, #SNAP, #EPA, #energyAssistance that used to help with Trump's insanely high fuel prices, & so much more that Americans depend on every day. #FuckGOP hypocrites!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2027-annual-budget-congress-defense-f95715d838be17afd9799208cd3182e3

Trump unveils 2027 budget with major boost in Pentagon spending

President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president’s plan would also reduce spending on non-defense programs by 10%. The massive document typically highlights an administration’s priorities, but Congress, which handles federal spending issues, is free to reject it and often does.

AP News

The WASHINGTON PRETZEL 2d ago

Trump's 2027 budget is a ransom note. 💸 Pay the arms dealers. $1.5T for the military. Job Corps eliminated. EPA cut in half. NIH gutted $5B. Clean water cut. HBCUs cut. NASA cut. Clean Energy canceled. Housing cut. K-12 education cut. Senior employment eliminated. Food assistance eliminated. The List goes on! Its a WAR ON AMERICANS!!!
#Trump2027Budget #JobCorps #NIH #EPA #DefundPeople #MilitarySpending #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬2d ago

#EPA flags #microplastics, #pharmaceuticals as contaminants in #drinkingwater
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to publish an updated version of its Contaminant Candidate List every five years. This is the sixth iteration of the list. Microplastics and pharmaceuticals appear in the draft of the upcoming list, alongside per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or #PFAS, and dozens of other chemicals and microbes.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-s1-5771155/epa-microplastics-pharmaceuticals-drinking-water

andybrwn 2d ago

#EPA and #HHS will study #microplastics and pharmaceuticals in water - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-04-02/microplastics-water-epa-hhs

EPA and HHS will study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in water

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said they plan to study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in U.S. drinking water.

Los Angeles Times