"A Quiet Climate Retreat At IEA"
"The International Energy Agency downplayed global warming this week amid U.S. pressure."
Source: E&E News, 02/24/2026
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"Interior Claws Back NEPA Regs"
"The Department of the Interior issued a final rule that curbs and streamlines its environmental reviews. Critics say the move is illegal."
Source: E&E News, 02/24/2026
"Trump Spares Power Plants From Mercury Emissions Clampdown"
"The Trump administration is reopening a loophole to allow more mercury emissions from some coal-fired power plants, provoking swift denunciations from public health advocates who said the rollback will leave children at further risk of exposure to the brain-damaging element."
Source: E&E News, 02/24/2026
Trump Approves Federal Emergency Declaration For Potomac River Sewage Spill
"Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer."
Source: Guardian, 02/23/2026
"Jesse Jackson’s Vision For America Embraced Environmental Justice"
"Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told her Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan from South Carolina, had died. “Immediately tears started coming,” said Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a New York City-based nonprofit."
Source: Grist/WBEZ, 02/23/2026
"Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs"
"The ruling is expected to have broad implications for the energy sector."
Source: E&E News, 02/23/2026
Trump Climate Rollback Likely To Hit Poor, Minority Areas Hardest: Experts
"In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted and the cancer rates so high it is known as Cancer Alley."
Source: AP, 02/20/2026
"U.S. Tells International Energy Agency to Drop Its Focus on Climate Change"
"The Trump administration this week threatened to pull the United States out of the world’s leading energy agency unless it abandoned its focus on tackling climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2026
"Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits"
"President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits."
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2026
"E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Mercury Rules for Coal Plants, Documents Show"
"The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show."
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2026
