"House Progressives Launch Environmental Justice Caucus"
"A trio of House progressives launched a new caucus Thursday they say will allow communities to better liaise with Congress on environmental issues."
Source: E&E News, 03/30/2026
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This Black Town Has E. Coli in Its Drinking Water, but Feds Just Cut Support
"Cahokia Heights, a Black Illinois community, was already drowning in sewage. Now it faces the loss of crucial federal repair money."
Source: Capital B, 03/30/2026"Scientists Urge Action On Glyphosate, Citing Strong Links To Cancer
"US and European regulators should take urgent action to more tightly regulate glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer, in light of strong scientific evidence that the pesticide can cause cancer and other health problems, a group of international scientists said on Friday."
Source: The New Lede, 03/30/2026"Explainer: What Does The Iran War Mean For Clean Energy Transition?"
"As the deadly war in Iran triggers what the International Energy Agency has described as the worst oil crisis in history, climate advocates are calling for a faster shift away from fossil fuels, but the conflict may also hamper that transition."
Source: Guardian, 03/27/2026"Trump’s New Science Panel Is Stuffed With High-Tech Billionaires"
"U.S. President Donald Trump today unveiled a set of scientific advisers heavily skewed toward artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, topics his administration has emphasized. The roster, unlike previous iterations of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), features some of the world’s wealthiest people and several of Trump’s biggest political supporters from high-tech industry—but only one academic scientist."
Source: Science, 03/27/2026"Is Your State Becoming Uninsurable? We Have The Latest Data."
"Home insurance is buckling under climate risk and construction trends. Find out how your state fares."
Source: Grist etc., 03/27/2026"Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use"
"In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers."
Source: WIRED, 03/27/2026"Trump’s Park Service Nominee and The Niagara Threat"
"Last month, the Trump administration announced Scott Socha as its new nominee to lead the National Park Service ..., much diminished since it was gutted by DOGE ... . As with many of the political appointees at Trump’s Interior Department, Socha comes directly from a corporation with abundant business interests before the agency he is slated to lead. He has worked [at a] hospitality and food services giant that controls lucrative concessions at national parks around the country."
Source: Public Domain, 03/26/2026"EPA Hands Biofuels Industry Small Win With E15 Waiver"
"The Trump administration’s decision to lift restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol fuel again this summer could help soften the blow of higher gas prices — but it’s not the big win the biofuels industry has been seeking."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2026Maryland Supreme Court Dismisses Baltimore And Annapolis Climate Lawsuits
"In a scathing decision issued Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Maryland tossed out climate change lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies by Baltimore, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, ruling the localities were stepping on the toes of the federal government."
Source: Maryland Matters, 03/26/2026"States Are Lifting Bans On Nuclear Power"
"After decades of aversion to the clean energy source, states are welcoming in nuclear developers as a way to meet surging electricity demand without fossil fuels."
Source: Canary Media, 03/26/2026Everglades Restoration Also Helps Save Planet from Climate Change: Study
"New research shows the carbon absorbed by the Everglades is equal to 10 percent of the emissions coming from Florida roadways, but the watershed’s methane emissions complicate the picture."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2026"It’s 3 Times Harder For Blue States To Get Disaster Funding Under Trump"
"The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states."
Source: E&E News, 03/25/2026"California Sues Trump To Keep Shut Oil Pipeline On Santa Barbara Coast"
"California sued the Trump administration Monday to block what it says is an unprecedented power grab: using emergency authority to force the restart of an offshore oil operation shut down more than a decade ago."
Source: CalMatters, 03/25/2026"Florida Panthers, An Endangered Species In Limbo"
"Folklore dating to ancient Egypt has held that cats have nine lives and in modern times that mystique certainly seems true for the Florida panther. Sometimes it feels like everything in the world is trying to snuff out the panthers — everything human, that is. The panthers, a mountain lion subspecies, nearly went extinct in the 1990s, when the population dwindled to 20. That would have been embarrassing for Florida, which — thanks to a 1981 vote by schoolchildren — had designated the panther as the official state animal."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 03/25/2026
