Trump EPA Is a Toothless Friend of Polluting Industries, Analysis Shows
"The EPA’s retreat from its role guarding clean air and water will have lasting effects on public health, critics fear."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/02/2026
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Power Plant Endangerment Repeal Enters White House Review
"The White House is reviewing a new proposal to permanently end EPA’s regulation of power plants’ carbon emissions."
Source: E&E News, 09/02/2026Smithsonian Changes Course, Will Put Latino Museum In Existing Building
"The Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that it will put its National Museum of the American Latino in a 145-year-old building on the National Mall instead of constructing a new one."
Source: Washington Post, 09/02/2026When Plastic Companies Write The Lesson Plans
"The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda."
Source: Grist, 09/02/2026Secretive Deals May Cut Billions From US Global Health Spending: Analysis
"The Trump administration is working to cut global health funding to developing nations by tens of billions of dollars by 2030, according to a new analysis of the secretive agreements U.S. officials have pursued with more than a dozen governments to date."
Source: Washington Post, 09/01/2026The CDC Hasn’t Added 2 Deaths To Its Measles Database. Here’s Why.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its weekly updates of a national measles death tally, a decision that came from new CDC director Erica Schwartz, according to three former and current officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation."
Source: Washington Post, 09/01/2026California Sues Over Trump Deal to Cancel Wind Project Lease
"California sued the Trump administration and Golden State Wind over the federal government’s deal with the company to cancel an offshore wind project lease, alleging the transaction violated multiple federal laws."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/01/2026Texas And Louisiana Could Get Hit By Fast-Spin-Up Tropical Storm Tuesday
"Tropical Storm Warning flags were flying today on the Gulf Coast of southeast Texas and southeast Louisiana ahead of the expected arrival on Tuesday of Tropical Depression Five (TD 5), which was designated a tropi�cal depression at 2 p.m. EDT Monday. As of 11 a.m. EDT Monday, TD 5 was predicted by the National Hurricane Center to become a tropical storm before its center reaches the Texas-Louisiana coast on Tuesday afternoon. The next name on the Atlantic list is Edouard."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 09/01/2026Big Bend Border Wall Preparations Paused by Texas Federal Judge
"Construction on — or at least preparations for — a border wall through Texas’s Big Bend National Park and the larger Big Bend region have been halted through Sept. 15, and possibly longer, a federal judge said from the bench Friday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/01/2026Trump’s EPA on a Mission to Ease Air Rules by 2028: Explained
"The EPA still has unfinished business on a handful of major air rules, which environmentalists fear will endanger Americans’ health and worsen the climate crisis."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/01/2026Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
"A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim."
Source: New York Times, 09/01/2026Trump Is Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer."
Source: NOTUS, 08/31/2026‘A New Form of US Colonialism’: Venezuelans Bristle at US Oil Takeover
"Many Venezuelans suspected that there was going to be a price to pay for President Trump’s brazen capture of their autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, who was arrested by U.S. forces in January. On Friday, that cost became clear when Mr. Trump announced that the U.S. would be taking majority control of a vast part of Venezuela’s oil reserves — national resources long considered by many in the country to be a birthright."
Source: New York Times, 08/31/2026$900 Million From A Canceled Wind Deal Will Benefit A Trump Donor
"The Trump administration’s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects and boost fossil fuel energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of the president’s million-dollar donors."
Source: Washington Post, 08/31/2026Trump Administration Proposes Changes To Biden-Era Climate Report
"The Tr ump administration is looking to change a portion of a 2023 federal climate report." "The administration proposed to reframe how the Fifth National Climate Assessment sees its worst-case scenarios after U.N. scientists said earlier this year that a worst-case scenario was not plausible."
Source: The Hill, 08/31/2026
