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Trump Nominates Oil and Gas Advocate to Run Bureau of Land Management

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Coral Davenport
The nominee, Kathleen Sgamma, has worked for nearly two decades on behalf of oil and gas companies in Western states.

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Kathleen Sgamma is president of the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, which has worked to strip away government protections and rules on extracting fossil fuels on public lands.
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Green Energy Ambitions of European Companies Take a Beating

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Stanley Reed
Orsted of Denmark and Equinor of Norway tap the brakes on offshore wind development after setbacks and market shifts.

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Workers installing guard rails on the foundation of an Orsted offshore wind turbine in New York in September.
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Trump Rehires Neil Jacobs, Former NOAA Chief Involved in ‘Sharpiegate’

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Christopher Flavelle
A respected atmospheric scientist, Dr. Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics in 2019.

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Neil Jacobs, speaking before a gathering of the National Weather Association in Huntsville, Ala., in 2019.
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Lisa Friedman
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.

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Research on PFAS, a family of toxic compounds known as forever chemicals, at an Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati.
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Chris Wright Is Confirmed as Secretary of Energy

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Brad Plumer
The former fracking executive said in confirmation hearings that his top priority would be to “unleash” American energy production.

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Chris Wright, in his Senate hearing, also tried to reassure Democrats that he believed climate change was a “global challenge that we need to solve.”
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Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By:Lisa Friedman
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

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The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington. Union leaders called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that President Trump dislikes.
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Top N.I.H. Official Abruptly Resigns as Trump Orders Deep Cuts

✇NYT > Science
By:Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, did not give a reason for his departure.

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Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, who resigned from the National Institutes of Health, has weathered past presidential transitions.
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