Endangerment
2019
2019-06-27 Ohio House Bill 6’s “Clean Air Program” was viewed as a bailout benefiting specific companies, including FirstEnergy, which had dumped arsenic-laden coal waste in 2013.
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/133/hb6
https://www.dallashartman.com/blog/firstenergy-dumping-waste-in-beaver-county/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/towns-dispute-where-to-dump-coal-waste/
2023
2023-09-08 Reports raised concerns about Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen’s family farm and nitrate contamination in local drinking water.
2025 April
2025-04-22 The Economic Policy Institute published a report arguing that the removal of environmental data disproportionately harms communities of color.
2025 July
2025-07-01 The administration erased climate-change reports and the website GlobalChange.gov.
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/climate-change-reports-removed-trump
2025-07-25 Data centers and resource extraction increasingly threaten Indigenous lands and sovereignty.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/data-centers-indian-country/
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/data-centers-and-ai-are-a-betrayal-of-indigenous-lifeways/
https://icmagazine.org/indigenous-peoples-push-back-as-data-centers-expand-across-north-america/
https://www.honorearth.org/stopdatacolonialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0-fBK0LVQ&list=WL&index=7&t=81s
2025-07-29 The Trump administration attempted to repeal a 2009 EPA endangerment finding that greenhouse gas emissions are air pollutants that endanger public health and welfare.
https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/greenhouse-gas-endangerment-finding/
https://nam.org/epa-moves-to-rescind-2009-greenhouse-gas-endangerment-finding-34497/
2025 November
2025-11-26 The Trump administration reduced air pollution reduction requirements.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/trump-epa-deadly-soot-pollution-rule
2026 January
2026-01-07 Trump eliminated the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy.
https://www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/
2026-01-14 The EPA stated they would stop calculating how much money is saved in health care costs and how many deaths were prevented by air pollution reduction measures.
2026 March
2026-03-09 Following U.S. strikes on Iranian oil facilities, toxic “black rain” and hazardous air pollution affected Tehran.
https://time.com/7383099/iran-news-oil-strikes-tehran/
https://ceobs.org/black-rain-the-health-and-environmental-risks-from-tehrans-oil-fires/
2026 April
2025-11-23 Doctors and health professionals petitioned against EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, criticizing efforts to weaken greenhouse gas regulations and the 2009 Endangerment findings.
OFFICIAL PETITION: https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-ask-epa-administrator-lee-zeldin-to-regulate-chemicals
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/a-maha-driven-petition-wants-epa-administrator-lee-zeldin-fired
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/epa-head-zeldin-must-go
2026-04-16 The senate voted to lift a federal ban on mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/senate-just-greenlit-mine-boundary-waters-minnesota/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqJFcCnhkY
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/boundary-waters-senate-vote.html
2026-04-29 The Forest Service expanded the use of glyphosate-based herbicides, including Roundup, in public forests, particularly in California.
https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/61577#
https://www.eenews.net/articles/concerns-grow-about-herbicide-use-in-wildfires-wake/
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/29/nate_halverson_roundup_glyphosate_us_forests
2026-04-29 The Trump administration proposed a rule to cut back the Endangered Species Act to allow more industry, drilling and mining. It was only after several voiced concerns from both parties that they delayed the vote.
https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/endangered-species-act-regulations/
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/trump-administration-gut-endangered-species-act
2026 May
2026-05-05 Ukrainian strikes reportedly produced “black rain” conditions in parts of Russia.
2026-05-18 The EPA proposed eliminating drinking-water limits for four PFAS “forever chemicals” established in 2024 and extending utility compliance deadlines from 2029 to 2031.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/trump-administration-epa-pfas-water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCZJyiy0veE&list=WL&index=6
2026-05-27 West Virginia communities have repeatedly had to battle water contamination from mining runoff.
https://www.wvva.com/2026/05/27/water-quality-worsens-brenton-residents/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMmNRHOJ0Kk&list=WL&index=1&t=141s
2026 June
2026-06-06 As outlined in Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, Trump dismantled the Ocean Observatories Initiative designed to help with weather reporting and climate change studies.
https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/why-the-ocean-observatories-initiative-is-being-dismantled
https://www.bgr.com/2186782/us-government-dismantle-ocean-observatories-initiative/
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-is-terminating-a-vast-network-of-ocean-monitors/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTpETcRkwqI&list=WL&index=3
2026-06-15 The DOJ intervened in a lawsuit in NAACP v. Elon Musk for violating a clean air act and polluting Black neighborhoods.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/18/abre_conner_naacp
https://naacp.org/articles/trump-administration-attempts-massive-power-grab-defense-musks-xai
THE LAWSUIT, April 14 2026 https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-data-center-power-plant
2026-06-25 MAHA moms said they felt betrayed after SCOTUS ruled that Bayer did not have to warn consumers about cancer risks associated with Roundup, and that Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production.
https://www.aol.com/news/decision-sickening-maha-leaders-feel-234923560.html
2026 July
2026-07-01 The EPA quit monitoring and testing for microplastics and pesticides in drinking water.
https://www.plasticsnews.com/public-policy/pn-epa-rejects-microplastics-drinking-water-testing/
https://www.newsweek.com/epa-faces-backlash-drinking-water-monitoring-plan-12139524
2026-07-14 Elon Musk’s company XAI installed more gas turbines without federal permits. The pollution is primarily affecting Black neighborhoods.
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/
TIMESTAMP 11:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThcfluu8f8&list=WL&index=5