Oil and Tech Money Back Measure to Limit California Environmental Law
"Proposition 45 would ease development of a wide range of projects, including some fossil-fuel facilities and possibly AI data centers."
Source: Capital & Main, 10/23/2026
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W. Va. Investigates Green Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Climate Change Advocacy
"West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving “unfair or deceptive acts” in their fundraising and climate change advocacy."
Source: AP, 10/23/2026Brazil’s Supreme Court Suspends Permit For Major Amazon Gold Mine
"Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest, dealing a setback to a Canadian company’s plans to develop an open-pit mine along a river already affected by one of the country’s largest hydroelectric dams."
Source: AP, 10/23/2026Court Blocks Ohio GOPers From Killing A Clean Air Law Opposed By Polluter
"A Franklin County judge overturned Ohio lawmakers’ effort to eliminate a clean air enforcement rule that’s used against polluters. She said the legislation unconstitutionally spanned multiple subjects."
Source: Signal Ohio, 10/23/2026New Washington Cooling Law Protects Farm Workers - If They Know About It
"Renters in Washington State now have expanded rights to air conditioning under a state law that recently went into effect. Awareness of the law, however, has yet to reach the farmworker community, which could benefit from the new protections."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 10/23/2026The Hidden History Of How Big Oil Invented The American Dream
"From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows how they did it."
Source: Grist, 10/23/2026The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal
"Some of the Trump administration’s partners could remain anonymous, hidden behind a parent company based in Barbados. The oil deal is designed to prevent future U.S. presidents and Venezuelan leaders from changing or dismantling the enterprise."
Source: ProPublica, 10/22/2026Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Votes as Midterm Fight Heats Up
"The White House is using federal disaster relief as leverage while Republicans fight to keep power in Washington, with President Trump saying on one occasion that voting for Democrats could mean less money for states."
Source: New York Times, 10/22/2026World Bank Withdraws Major Loan to an Agribusiness Tied to Deforestation
"The reversal comes after environmental and Indigenous rights groups pushed the bank to acknowledge environmental concerns. More watchdogging of development banks is on the horizon, they say."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/22/2026This 'Wonderland of Rocks' Just Became America's Newest National Park
"Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona was redesignated as the United States' 64th national park on Oct. 20, 2026, offering unique geological features, wildlife and dark‑sky conditions, but it remains small and under‑resourced."
Source: USA TODAY, 10/22/2026US Is Outlier Among Rich Nations in Slowing Climate Progress: UN Data
"The scientific report, identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: New York Times, 10/21/2026U.K. Approves Long-Delayed North Sea Gas Field Despite Climate Concerns
"Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office in July, has sought to balance pressure to tackle rising bills with demands from some Labour lawmakers to reduce fossil fuel use."
"Britain on Wednesday approved the Jackdaw North Sea gas field, ending years of legal and political wrangling as the Labour government seeks to balance its climate goals with energy security concerns.
Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh said the project would begin supplying gas to British homes and businesses by the end of this month, helping ease energy costs that have surged during the Iran war.
Source: Reuters, 10/21/2026US Clean Energy Jobs Fell In 2025 For The First Time In Years
"Clean energy installations have persisted at record levels despite President Donald Trump’s best efforts to stop them. But the first year of Trump’s second term did leave a mark on U.S. jobs in the sector." "Employment in the sector dipped in Donald Trump’s first year back in office — and many more expected jobs won’t materialize thanks to canceled clean energy projects."
Source: Canary Media, 10/21/2026After Trump Scraps Key Climate Report, Scientists Plow Ahead Anyway
"After the Trump administration dismissed scientists behind a key national climate report last year, some of them decided they’d keep working on it — but from outside the government."
Source: Washington Post, 10/21/2026Trump Gives Contentious New York Pipeline A Defense Production Act Boost
"The Trump administration is giving a defense-related boost to a contentious pipeline in the Northeast U.S. The Energy Department said Monday that it would give up to $42 million from the Defense Production Act for the Constitution Pipeline project that would transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York."
Source: The Hill, 10/21/2026
