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18.04.2025

EPA must unfreeze Biden-era climate funds, says federal judge - Fast Company

A federal judge ruled that the EPA has to give some nonprofits access to clean energy funds that were frozen in February.

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18.04.2025

Maine sued by Trump administration over transgender athletes - Fast Company

The Trump administration escalated a dispute with Maine over the participation of transgender athletes in girls sports.

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18.04.2025

This CO2 removal project expected millions. Now Trump may kill it. - Fast Company

Direct air capture plants like Project Cypress will mitigate the worst of climate change. So why is the Energy Department putting it on ice?

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18.04.2025

Why Hyundai is doubling down on EVs—despite Trump’s war on the cars - Fast Company

Hyundai just opened a $7 billion manufacturing plant for electric and hybrid vehicles, and it plans to invest even more over the next few years.

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18.04.2025

AmeriCorps funding pulled by DOGE, members discharged early - Fast Company

AmeriCorps’s National Civilian Community Corps funding amounted to nearly $38 million last fiscal year.

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18.04.2025

House Republicans want to gut Medicaid. In California, that could cost them their seats - Fast Company

Healthcare advocates and labor unions are mobilizing against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with protests, ads, and town halls.

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17.04.2025

Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation - Fast Company

Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting.

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17.04.2025

OpenAI names new philanthropy advisors, including labor icon Dolores Huerta - Fast Company

Huerta, 95, formed the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez in the early 1960s.

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17.04.2025

International students are getting their visas revoked, sowing panic - Fast Company

Immigration attorneys are getting calls from hundreds of students saying that their legal status has been terminated with little notice.

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17.04.2025

Legal experts say there’s no basis for the Trump administration’s plans to repeal environmental regulations - Fast Company

‘It makes no sense. It is impossible to implement. It reflects a complete lack of understanding of how government works.’

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17.04.2025

Trump’s push to solve wildfires by expanding logging won’t work - Fast Company

The administration’s plans to increase timber output in order to prevent wildfires are likely to have the opposite effect.

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16.04.2025

Why recycled toilet water might be the best solution for drought - Fast Company

We have the technology to make toilet water drinkable. Why aren’t dry states using it to solve their water problems?

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16.04.2025

These 7 universities are facing federal funding cuts from the Trump administration - Fast Company

The threats—and subsequent pauses in funding—to some top U.S. universities have become an unprecedented tool for the administration to exert influence on college campuses.

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16.04.2025

Shipping is a dirty business. EVs—electric vessels—could change that - Fast Company

Electrifying ships. Testing new biofuels. Cleaning up ports. The quest to clean up the global shipping industry is accelerating.

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16.04.2025

Trump wants to kill the wind industry—but new wind farms are still booming - Fast Company

Trump has said he doesn’t want any wind farms built while he is president. But demand is still soaring.

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15.04.2025

These new EV chargers could have been installed quickly. Then came Trump - Fast Company

Trump administration cuts to funding from the IRA is leaving clean energy projects in limbo—even ones that could have been completed by now.

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15.04.2025

Trump administration research cuts prompt scientists to seek jobs in Europe - Fast Company

The European Research Council says it would double the relocation budget for funding researchers moving to the EU to 2 million euros ($2.16 million) per applicant.

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15.04.2025

Texas measles outbreak shows what happens when vaccine funding flatlines - Fast Company

Recent cuts by the Trump administration have pulled billions of dollars in COVID-19-related funding—$2 billion of it slated for immunization programs for various diseases.

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15.04.2025

Companies still face pressure to tackle climate change amid federal policy changes - Fast Company

Companies may maintain a low profile about climate change while the Trump administration is in power, but they have strong financial incentives to continue to reduce their emissions and their own climate risks.

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15.04.2025

USC is fighting a union—and using a legal argument copied from SpaceX and Amazon - Fast Company

At USC, faculty members are trying to unionize. To block them, the university is joining large corporations in trying to undermine labor law.

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15.04.2025

Trump pushed oil and gas development in Alaska, but industry is doubtful amid trade tensions - Fast Company

Uncertainty about the permanence of tariffs or other restrictions on international trade are now widespread and directly affect the oil industry.

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15.04.2025

Tokyo is reinventing the downtown—by making more than one - Fast Company

How Tokyo is inventing the "urban knowledge campus" by creating aa mosaic of distinct downtown districts.

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12.04.2025

Missouri voters backed stronger wage and sick leave laws—and then state Republicans repealed them - Fast Company

Michigan and Nebraska have seen similar situations play out, where legislators from both parties are rolling back wage policies approved by voters.

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12.04.2025

LA wildfire survivors fight for coverage for contamination testing - Fast Company

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12.04.2025

Dire wolves might sound cool, but they do nothing to fix our biodiversity problem - Fast Company

Through gene editing, scientists at Colossal Biosciences are reviving long-extinct animals. But is it really for the sake of conservation, or just human curiosity?

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12.04.2025

Supreme Court directs Trump to return deported Maryland man - Fast Company

The Supreme Court said the Trump administration should be prepared to share what steps it has taken to try to get back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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11.04.2025

Trump's executive orders to boost coal industry misrepresent facts - Fast Company

The production of coal is cleaner now than it has been historically, but that doesn’t mean it’s clean.

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11.04.2025

African nations get some relief from Trump's tariff pause - Fast Company

Lesotho, Madagascar, and South Africa were threatened with some of the highest tariff rates under U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan.

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11.04.2025

This solar-powered steel mill in the Mojave Desert is a glimpse of the future - Fast Company

Once it opens, it will be the first self-powered, net-zero steel mill in the country.

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11.04.2025

Trump’s energy order puts states’ climate laws in DOJ’s crosshairs - Fast Company

Trump's executive order on energy could unleash court battles between the DOJ and states seeking to curb greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.

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11.04.2025

Trump just killed a rule meant to prevent towns from flooding repeatedly - Fast Company

The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities—and taxpayers—facing the same problems over and over again.

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11.04.2025

This 12-year-old is designing a new way to detect tornados - Fast Company

To provide warnings faster, Anirudh Rao wants to develop a network of drones that can sense the sounds emitted before and during a tornado.

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10.04.2025

This new pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice - Fast Company

Researchers at Northwestern developed a temporary pacemaker that’s so small, it can be inserted via a syringe—and will dissolve in the body when it’s no longer needed.

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10.04.2025

Trump and GOP lawmakers want to slash Medicaid funding—but this mother is pushing back - Fast Company

Medicaid is a lifeline for people with disabilities like Josh Lockwood-Wewer. If Republicans' plan to cut funding goes through, his care would deterioriate.

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10.04.2025

Lego opens $1 billion factory in Vietnam that runs on clean energy - Fast Company

The Lego factory in the industrial area of Binh Duong, close to Ho Chi Minh City, is the first in Vietnam that aims to run entirely on clean energy.

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10.04.2025

RFK Jr. slammed by health experts on measles outbreak response - Fast Company

The CDC, which reports to Kennedy, has made just two official public statements and provided a weekly tally of measles cases on its website.

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10.04.2025

Should we prioritize housing or climate? It’s time to stop acting like we have to choose - Fast Company

Both housing affordability and climate solutions are under fire by Trump—but these movements should be working together to preserve the American dream.

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10.04.2025

U.S. coal industry gets a boost from Trump’s executive orders - Fast Company

President Trump's executive orders seek to lift coal plants out of retirement and to lift barriers on mining on federal lands.

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L.A. fires: Consumer group sues to block insurers from charging Californians $500 million - Fast Company

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Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation - Fast Company

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