As Climate Crisis Upended Homeowners Insurance, Industry Resisted Regulation
"When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back."
Source: Capital & Main, 02/23/2026
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Research Uncovers Shocking Level of Trade in Protected Chambered Nautiluses
"The beautiful marine mollusks have international protections, but sale of their shells continues by the tens of thousands."
Source: The Revelator, 02/23/2026
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
Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change Laws
"A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections."
Source: Inside Climate News, 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
"House GOP Targets Green Groups Over Willow Fight"
"House Republicans are investigating environmental groups over their efforts to stop a major oil and natural gas project in Alaska."
Source: E&E News, 02/23/2026
Tijuana River Sewage Crisis is a Long-Lasting Public Health Calamity
"Political gridlock has allowed the situation to worsen for decades"
Source: Sierra, 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
To Fans, Fungi Are Freaky, Mystical, Overlooked. They Help Scientists Learn
"Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, only along North America’s Western coastlines."
Source: AP, 02/20/2026
