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Permitting Bill's Lame Duck Fate Depends on Countervailing Issues
October 20, 2026 07:47 PM EDT
RTO Insider.
While Senators hope to vote on a bipartisan permitting bill meant to speed up energy deployment, groups have firmed up their views.
Judge throws out U.S. DOJ attempt to deny communities' day in court against Musk's company, xAI
October 20, 2026 03:06 PM EDT
Earthjustice
Such citizen suits serve as an essential backstop — and often a last resort — for communities when government regulators fail to hold polluters accountable.
Environmental groups, chiefs file lawsuit as US pushes on with American Samoa deep sea mining plans
October 20, 2026 02:10 PM EDT
Radio New Zealand
An environmental group is challenging the United States' legal authority to sell seabed mining leases covering waters off the coast of American Samoa, as the Trump administration pushes ahead with plans for a deep sea mining auction around the Pacific territory.
Trump EPA Can Join xAI Data Center Suit, Fails to Win Dismissal
October 20, 2026 12:08 PM EDT
Bloomberg Industry Group
The United States was allowed to intervene in an air pollution case brought by the NAACP against xAI’s use of diesel generators to power its data center project, but it lost its bid to dismiss the case entirely.
Michigan species at risk after Trump rolls back protections, advocates say
October 20, 2026 10:05 AM EDT
Interlochen Public Radio
Wildlife advocates said stripping landmark protections in the federal Endangered Species Act will weaken the law’s power and threaten at-risk species in Michigan. The changes are part of the administration’s broader efforts to reform regulations that it says are an obstacle to energy development.
10 of Trump's Most Consequential Environmental Rollbacks
October 20, 2026 09:05 AM EDT
Yahoo! Inc.
And what they mean for America’s lands, waters, wildlife, and climate.
Sitting on a time bomb
October 20, 2026 08:07 AM EDT
International Viewpoint.
“In his infamous United Nations speech a year ago, Trump denounced global heating as the “biggest scam in world history.” Since his re-election, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Accords, closed offices and programs dealing with climate change, terminated dozens of experts working on global heating and, crucially, withdrawn billions of dollars aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.”
Trump vowed to stop an 'energy emergency.' Then he created a real one.
October 20, 2026 04:45 AM EDT
Grist Magazine
The president used executive powers to boost oil and coal, but he can't fix the shortages caused by the Iran war.
Trump warns US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win midterms
October 20, 2026 02:28 AM EDT
The News International.
During a campaign rally in Park City, Kansas, to support embattled Republican Senator Roger Marshall, United States President Donald Trump warned voters that the U.S. would burn like France due to...
Four ways the midterms can reshape US energy policy
October 19, 2026 01:47 PM EDT
the Atlantic Council
The next Congress has options to act, particularly if one or both chambers shift from a Republican to a Democratic majority.
EPA quietly backtracks on claims US has phased out toxic Pfas compounds
October 18, 2026 06:53 PM EDT
The Guardian.
Agency changes wording on website as Texas-based firm continues manufacture of plastic container barriers
Rule Lets Fossil Fuel Companies “Unintentionally” Kill Polar Bears and Walruses
October 17, 2026 10:05 AM EDT
Truthout.
The Trump administration’s rule change was a major priority for the Alaska Oil and Gas Association.
States Advance Climate and Energy Policy Amid Federal Retreat | The Regulatory Review
October 17, 2026 12:05 AM EDT
theregreview
Scholars discuss the impacts of federal energy policy and state-level climate policy.
US is reviving shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing electricity demand and to power data centers
October 16, 2026 08:59 AM EDT
KSAT 12 News.
The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing demand, especially from data centers.
The Forest Service Planned to Move to Utah. A Federal Judge Just Stepped In.
October 15, 2026 05:36 PM EDT
Outside
A new court ruling temporarily stopped the agency from moving its headquarters to Utah and closing nine regional offices. Critics warn the overhaul could weaken environmental protections across 193 million acres of public land.
Democrats probe EPA excusing data center power plants from pollution rules
October 15, 2026 04:37 PM EDT
The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A group of Democratic lawmakers is demanding answers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about its recent guidance exempting data center power generation facilities from certain
At Trump's order, U.S. Department of Agriculture asks Colorado to review state wolf policies, protection status
October 15, 2026 03:18 PM EDT
The Aspen Times.
Just over a month after President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to look at delisting gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking the...
Penn experts say Trump EPA rollback will drive nation off 'climate cliff'
October 14, 2026 08:01 PM EDT
The Daily Post.
The Trump administration’s denial of precedent is the worst setback for making climate progress in history, one professor wrote to the DP.
“Stunningly short-sighted.” NOAA grant cuts threaten US climate resilience
October 14, 2026 06:52 PM EDT
Mongabay
Trump administration cuts slashed NOAA grants for climate resilience projects, particularly for communities of color.
“Forever chemicals” pollute more than 80% of tested US waterways
October 14, 2026 07:00 AM EDT
The New Lede.
If you swam, fished or paddled a lake or river in the US over the past couple of years, there’s a more than 80% chance the water contained toxic “forever chemicals,” according to a new report.
Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA's Failure to Cut Pesticide Pollution in Waterways, Drinking Water
October 14, 2026 03:01 AM EDT
the Center for Biological Diversity
Conservation and public health groups filed a lawsuit today to force the Trump administration to develop required water quality standards for atrazine, a cancer-linked pesticide found at dangerous levels in thousands of U.S. waterways and in drinking-water supplies. Atrazine is the nation’s most widespread pesticide water pollutant. According to a new Center for Biological Diversity report, the pesticide contaminates 25% of all river miles in the continental United States at levels the Environmental Protection Agency recognizes as harmful to aquatic life. Atrazine pollution is caused by industrial agricultural operations using tens of millions of pounds of the pesticide each year. Today’s lawsuit challenges the lack of water quality protections in American waterways as required under the Clean Water Act. The Act requires the EPA to develop water quality standards for pollutants like atrazine. The agency initiated but failed to complete that step in 1999.
Trump pardons 2 auto workers on stage during rally in Alaska
October 14, 2026 12:13 AM EDT
CBS News
President Trump granted onstage pardons to two Alaska auto shop owners who pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act during a rally Tuesday — an unusually public use of the president's clemency power.
Trump admin seeks to block restoration of climate change, diversity info at historical sites
June 16, 2026 03:31 PM EDT
ABC News
The National Park Service filed an appeal to dismiss a judge's ruling that the federal government must restore historical sites and materials at national parks.
