Climate and Energy News Roundup: April 2025
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Climate STARR (Strategies for Trauma, Action, Resilience, & Regeneration) training in response to our climate crisis is being held at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Making our rights disappear: The authoritarians wage war on due process
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Imagine this: you’re rounded up in the dead of night by government agents, arrested and sent to a detention center.
Rob Okun: Could low-wage Whites spark Donald Trump’s undoing?
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Lost amidst the firehose of lies uttered by Donald Trump at his address before Congress on March 4, was a New Mexico Democratic congresswoman’s succinct description of the crisis facing the United States.
Roddy Scheer: Is the Net Zero Banking Alliance in jeopardy with Trump 2.0?
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The Net Zero Banking Alliance is a partnership of banks dedicated to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Petition gathers 44K signatures to request Congress stop NIH funding cuts
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MoveOn has gathered more than 42,000 signatures on a petition to stop President Donald Trump and Elon Musk from cutting NIH funding.
Special education expert explains importance of DOE for students with disabilities
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Approximately 7.5 million American students receive Special Education in public school under 13 categories of disability.
State AGs, not ours, but others, fighting Trump over gender-affirming care
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Virginia’s MAGA attorney general, Jason Miyares, refers to gender-affirming care for trans minors as “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” Our neighbor to the north, Maryland, has an AG that isn’t a total Neanderthal.
Legislation would combat illicit ‘tranq,’ protect legal uses by veterinarians
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and colleagues introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Combating Illicit Xylazine Act last week.
UVA Health resumes gender-affirming care after court ruling; VCU services still paused
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UVA Health has resumed care for transgender youth after a federal court temporarily suspended Donald Trump’s executive order.
Group of Democrat state AGs tell JD Vance: ‘No one is above the law’
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A group of 17 Democratic state AGs has a strong message for Vice President JD Vance: “Judges do not ‘control’ executive power. Judges stop the unlawful and unconstitutional exercise of power.”
