Energy & Fuel

"Trump Administration Kills a Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic"

"The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes and scrambling Great Power strategy."

Source: New York Times, 08/12/2026

Dems Probe Uranium Company For Insider Trading Tied To Bears Ears

"House Democrats are investigating whether executives at a uranium company operating in Utah engaged in possible insider trading by making investments days before President Donald Trump opened a nearby national monument to mining."

Source: E&E News, 08/12/2026

Alito Gained Up To $2.9M From Oil And Gas Assets Since Joining Court

"The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows." "Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case".

Source: Guardian, 08/12/2026

New Amazon Data Center Could Be Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

"Amazon is investing in a large-scale natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, the company confirmed on Friday, a facility that could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States."

Source: New York Times, 08/11/2026

Inside Doug Burgum’s Rocky Tenure At Interior

"Interior Department staffers were optimistic after Doug Burgum was confirmed to lead the agency in 2025... . But since he took over at Interior last year, that hope has been replaced by confusion and concern that the agency is poorly run, has devolved into secrecy and has lost thousands of the staff needed to manage the national park systems and millions of acres of public lands."

Source: E&E News, 08/11/2026
August 21, 2026 to August 27, 2026

Film Screening: TO USE A MOUNTAIN at NYC's DCTV Firehouse Cinema

Catch a screening of an SEJ-supported feature documentary TO USE A MOUNTAIN at NYC's DCTV Firehouse Cinema in Chinatown this week, with Q&As w/ director Casey Carter. Winner of the 2025 Visions du Réel Special Jury Award, the film chronicles a people's history of resistance and stewardship when six rural American communities were marked as candidates to become a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste.

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Trump Is Blocking Billions Of Dollars Of Grants That Would Fix The Grid

"The Department of Energy has canceled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the country’s stressed grid — and not just in blue states."

Source: Canary Media, 08/10/2026

Trump Launched Big New Solar Tariffs. Here’s What It Means.

"A far-reaching new tariff on solar imports promises to both raise the cost of installing the clean energy source and strengthen efforts to reshore solar manufacturing."

Source: Canary Media, 08/10/2026

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