Infrastructure

Groups Challenge NC Utilities Commission Chair’s Pause of Solar Projects

"Advocates for solar energy are asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to overturn an unusual order by its chairman directing Duke Energy to stop its 2026 solar procurement process."

Source: NC Newsline, 05/14/2026

"They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)"

"In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches and tree harvesters were whirring in an effort to restore a waterlogged, mosquito-infested ecosystem that was drained in the Soviet era. The reason is twofold: to help the climate and to defend the country from invasion."

Source: New York Times, 05/14/2026

"Trump Reflecting Pool Paint Job Draws New Lawsuit Over Review"

"The Trump administration unlawfully began painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool basin blue without conducting the required consultations before altering a registered historic landmark, a new lawsuit alleged Monday."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/13/2026

EPA Plan: Let Work Start On Data Centers, Power Plants Before Air Permits

"EPA on Monday proposed allowing data centers, power plants and other industrial facilities to begin certain construction work before obtaining required federal air permits."

Source: E&E News, 05/13/2026

Nonprofit Sues To Stop Trump Changes To Reflecting Pool, A Historic Site

"A Washington-area nonprofit Monday asked a federal court to halt President Donald Trump’s efforts to resurface the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying that the president failed to undergo required federal reviews before applying a blue color to the basin."

Source: Washington Post, 05/12/2026

"Close Calls At Michigan’s Dams Are A Climate Warning To America"

"Flooding across northern Michigan last month pushed rivers to record levels, testing the limits of the state’s aging dams so severely that officials in one city nearly ordered evacuations as water threatened to spill over the top of a key barrier — a close call that highlights the growing risk that intensifying storms pose to similar infrastructure around the country."

Source: Grist, 05/11/2026

EPA Will Propose Weakening Some Biden-Era PFAS Limits, Official Says

"The Trump administration will soon propose softening Biden-era limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, delaying but keeping tough standards for two common types and rescinding limits on some rarer forms of the substance, according to an EPA official."

Source: AP, 05/11/2026

"Microsoft May Abandon Its Clean Energy Powered Data Centre Targets"

"Microsoft Corp. may shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centres, according to people with knowledge of the matter."

Source: Bloomberg, 05/08/2026

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