Lumberjack Lawmaker: Troy Jackson Cuts A Mixed Environmental Image
"A late add to try to unseat Sen. Susan Collins, the Democratic Senate hopeful blends a progressive streak with roots in the timber industry."
Source: E&E News, 08/07/2026
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Data Center Foes Win Big In Tuesday’s Primaries
"Winners this week either want to crack down on new data centers or enact a moratorium."
Source: E&E News, 08/06/2026Senate Confirms CDC Head After Debate Over Her Independence Of RFK Jr.
"The Senate on Wednesday voted mainly along party lines to confirm Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vote ends months of leadership uncertainty at the nation’s premier public health agency but leaves unresolved the central question that dominated her confirmation process: Will she preserve the agency’s scientific independence under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?"
Source: Washington Post, 08/06/2026How Trump’s Claims Of Vandalism At Reflecting Pool Crumbled
"Trump has lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped vandalism cases and blamed damage at the pool on rushed and flawed work by a contractor."
Source: Washington Post, 08/06/2026Meta's La. Data Center Permit Omits Some Of Its Emissions: Sierra Club
"An environmental group argues Louisiana officials did not account for all of the harmful emissions Meta’s data center in Richland Parish will produce when it approved the facility’s Clean Air Act permit revisions in June."
Source: Louisiana Illuminator, 08/06/2026EPA Claims Omaha Cleanup As Success, But Many Yards Still Have Lead
"The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead."
Source: Flatwater Free Press, 08/06/2026EPA Stalls Planned Nitrate Cancer Review As Pollution Crisis Grows
"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water."
Source: The New Lede, 08/06/2026Appeals Court Says Trump EPA Was Wrong To Kill $20 Billion Climate Fund
"A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort."
Source: AP, 08/05/2026Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina
"Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/05/2026Crews Building Trump Border Wall In N.M. Ordered To Stop Drilling Wells
"Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought."
Source: Guardian, 08/05/2026UK Plastic ‘Waste Colonialism’ Found To Be Polluting Turkey’s Farms
"High levels of microplastics and other plastic contamination have been discovered in a waterway close to a major recycling hub in Turkey supplied with plastic waste by British companies."
Source: Guardian, 08/05/2026Louisiana Bets On Musk Rockets As Trump Targets Environmental Reviews
"Louisiana is striving to become the next hub for the growing commercial space industry. The Trump administration could sweeten the pot by removing environmental reviews."
Source: E&E News, 08/05/2026DiCaprio And Bezos Lead $200M Project To Save 100 Threatened Species
"Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas."
Source: AP, 08/05/2026Latin American News Startup: ‘The Most Accurate Truth’
"After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 08/05/2026Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Line 5 Permit
"Michigan’s highest court has ordered state energy regulators to redo their environmental review of Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac."
Source: E&E News, 08/04/2026
