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US Politics · United States

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

48% Center coverage: 272 sources

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Donald Trump · United States

West Virginia Nonprofits Speak Out About Federal Funding Cuts Under President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act

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Center57%

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States File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Efforts to Collect SNAP Recipients' Data

68% Center coverage: 41 sources

A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for states to turn over personal data — including names, birthdates, and home addresses — for people who are enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program.Letitia James · United States See the Story

West Virginia Nonprofits Speak Out About Federal Funding Cuts Under President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act

57% Center coverage: 7 sources

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Nonprofit leaders in West Virginia are speaking out about potentially harmful impacts to communities after changes to federal funding are put in motion from President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act. According to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy’s data in 2025, federal dollars make up nearly half of the state’s overall budget, with about $5 billion specific to programs like Medicaid and other human s…Donald Trump · United States See the Story

Connecticut seeks to approve more than $150M to lower electric bills

Coverage: 2 sources

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — After more than a year of rate-payer outrage and extensive legislative debate, the state government moved to approve more than $150 million in spending on Friday to lower your electric bill. Lawmakers propose bill that would reduce cost of electricity in Connecticut The electric bill relief was tucked into nearly $1 billion in new state borrowing. To learn more about changes to your bill, and who is paying for the …Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford See the Story

Judge sends English Station cleanup dispute back to DEEP

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

A Connecticut judge on Thursday ordered state officials to go back to their deliberations in a long-running dispute with United Illuminating over the cleanup of one of the utility’s former power plants, English Station. The ruling — which is almost certain to add further delays to the remediation effort — came just days after officials in New Haven announced ambitious plans to tear down the dilapidated plant and develop the site into a waterfron…Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford Read Article

CT funds body scanners to replace strip searches in some prisons

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

As a young man incarcerated in the Department of Correction, Shakur Collins refused visits from his mother for about a year and a half, just to avoid having to be strip-searched. “ What that does is just feed into the notion of disrupting filial and familiar relationships. And that’s intentional,” he told The Connecticut Mirror. Collins likened strip-searching, which he first experienced at age 13, to sexual assault, and said it was traumatizin…Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford Read Article

Where have FEMA grant programs in CT been cancelled?

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

The federal government recently cancelled a disaster relief grant program and discontinued another, leaving some projects stuck in various stages — without full funding. The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program has officially ended and is canceling all grants from 2020 to 2023 that have not already been distributed. For Connecticut, only 22% of all BRIC projects have been funded. The rest will remain unfunded. While some pro…Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford Read Article

For some, Bridgeport scholarship helps open doors to higher ed

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

For Chamique Brown, the road to college seemed like it’d be a tough one. After emigrating from Jamaica during high school and spending her senior year at Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport, Brown found herself facing the same question many high school seniors do: What’s next? But unlike many of her classmates, she didn’t qualify for federal financial aid at the time because of her visa status. “I was trying really hard to go to college and…Hartford, Connecticut · Hartford Read Article

Ned Lamont to spare UConn, CSCU from required spending cuts

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Gov. Ned Lamont will not ask public colleges and universities to sacrifice further over the next year as his administration tries to achieve big efficiency savings ordered by legislators in the new state budget, officials said. The governor’s budget spokesman, Chris Collibee, confirmed Tuesday that neither the University of Connecticut nor the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system would be asked — at least initially — to forfeit any m…Ned Lamont · Hartford Read Article

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