April 2025 – Page 2 – Climate Desk

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Mother Jones

How does climate change affect our brains? Trump’s NIH just cut funding to study it.

“We are all in this because we want to help understand and prevent disease…it’s truly devastating.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 10, 2025
Slate

The novel legal theory republicans are using to kill climate progress

Their efforts, notes one expert, amount to “a legally unfounded weaponization of the antitrust laws.”

Ben Steinberg · April 8, 2025
Grist

The government aims to cut funding for safer streets. Here’s who would be hurt most.

The Department of Transportation considers freezing funding for bike lanes and other pedestrian safety projects as the Trump administration leans into fossil fuels.

Lois Parshley · April 3, 2025
Guardian

‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts

Head of Riverkeeper, which helped clean up Hudson River, talks about challenges during the second Trump term

Edward Helmore · April 2, 2025
Grist

Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap?

Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed.

Jake Bittle · April 1, 2025