Michigan 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
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Trump DOJ Bids To Block Public From Suing To Enforce Environmental Laws
"Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens to enforce them through the courts when the government does not act to address the problem."
Source: The Conversation, 08/04/2026Trump OSHA Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections
"Republicans in Washington are taking steps to roll back federal workplace heat protections as summer temperatures surge."
Source: New York Times, 08/04/2026Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement
"Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout."
Source: Politico, 08/04/2026EPA Says It Wants “PFAS Out,” But Its Actions Allow More Of Them In
"Less than three months ago, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jess Kramer outlined a series of promises dubbed “PFAS OUT,” aimed at eliminating a family of toxic compounds from drinking water, and touted the Trump administration’s wider commitments to protecting Americans from contamination by the chemicals."
Source: The New Lede, 08/04/2026Is The Recycling Symbol Free Speech? A Judge Just Ruled It Could Be.
"A pioneering California law meant to sharply limit use of the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol has been blocked by a federal judge who said it probably violates the First Amendment."
Source: Grist, 08/04/2026Interior Posts Colorado River Plan With ‘Draconian’ Cuts For Arizona
"The Trump administration released its final plan Friday for managing the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next decade, a major milestone in the seven-state brawl over water supplies for 40 million people across the West. The Interior Department’s plan — issued in the form of a final environmental impact statement — effectively breaks the fight into smaller chunks without resolving any of the fundamental disputes."
Source: E&E News, 08/03/2026Clean Energy Group Targets State Races
"The renewable energy industry is turning its attention to state-level races in the run-up to November’s midterm elections."
Source: E&E News, 08/03/2026Democrats’ ‘Climate Hushing’ Prompts Activists To Turn Up The Volume
"Nationwide actions seek to counter view that talking about climate crisis distracts from affordability messaging"
Source: Guardian, 08/03/2026Dems Slam Trump Admin After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case
"Democrats are reacting to the Justice Department’s move to drop its Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case against Olympian David Hearn, saying the move validated their longstanding criticism that the administration is weaponizing the Justice Department."
Source: The Hill, 08/03/2026"Can New Ranching Practices Help Cattle, Cowboys and Wolves Coexist?"
"A small nonprofit with an innovative approach to predator-livestock conflicts is trying to ease Colorado ranchers’ concerns about wolves."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/03/2026FEMA Said Yes To Dem-State Disaster Requests. Trump Killed Them Anyway.
"President Donald Trump overruled his own agencies when he denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states this month."
Source: E&E News, 07/31/2026Bipartisan Anger Grows at Pentagon’s Delayed PFAS Cleanups
"In a fiercely divided Washington, there is bipartisan anger at the stalled progress in cleaning up toxic chemicals at military bases. The delays have emerged as a rare issue uniting Democrats and Republicans in their criticism of the Pentagon."
Source: New York Times, 07/31/2026Proposed BC Mine Expansion Raising Pollution Concerns In Canada And US
"A proposed expansion of an Elk Valley Resources’ coal mine in southeast British Columbia is moving through the environmental assessment process despite concerns over pollution. Decades of coal mining in the valley has led to harmful selenium concentrations and loads downstream, in British Columbia and the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho."
Source: Mongabay, 07/31/2026Amid AI Boom, Coal Returns — With a Familiar Cost To Black Neighbors
"Trump’s order keeping an Orlando coal plant online renews environmental justice concerns over who pays AI’s pollution bill." "The fight over Stanton Unit 1 illustrates how America's AI boom could prolong coal pollution that has historically fallen hardest on Black communities."
Source: Word in Black, 07/31/2026
