"The Chesapeake Bay Program Reaches a Crossroads"
"Facing weakened pollution targets and threats of federal inaction, Maryland and Virginia may have to become the agreement’s enforcers."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/01/2025
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Virginia Legislation to Manage Data Center Growth Is Stalling
"The state with the most data centers is struggling to enact laws to protect electric customers and limit the energy and environmental impacts of their explosive growth."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/01/2025
Industry, Enviros Spar Over California Bill To Ban PFAS in Cookware
"As US states increasingly pass laws to limit PFAS chemicals in consumer products, a debate is heating up over a California bill that proposes banning the sale of cookware with intentionally added “forever chemicals” beginning in 2030."
Source: The New Lede, 10/01/2025
"Shutdown Threatens To Delay Zeldin’s Climate Rule Rollback"
"EPA is trying to complete an agencywide restructuring effort while also weakening marquee regulations in October and November. Now it might have to do that in the midst of a government shutdown."
Source: E&E News, 10/01/2025
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"What Do Fens Do? Make Peat, Store Water And Help Combat Climate Change"
"Meet the researchers restoring these unique wetlands high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains."
Source: High Country News, 09/30/2025
"Carrier Wants To Pair Batteries With Air Conditioners To Help The Grid"
"Utilities are struggling to meet demand as AI data centers surge. Equipping air conditioners with batteries could be an easy and hugely scalable way to free up electricity supply at peak times."
Source: Canary Media, 09/30/2025
One Year After Helene: The Massive Effort To Rebuild The Appalachian Trail
"More than 680 volunteers, including some from as far away as Japan, descended on the Appalachian Trail in the past year to help recover a landscape forever scarred by Hurricane Helene."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 09/30/2025
"Endangered Whooping Crane Dies Of Avian Flu At Wisconsin Wildlife Refuge"
"The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on Thursday after becoming infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, a strain of avian flu."
Source: AP, 09/30/2025
"Trump Agencies Lean Into Shortcuts for Public Comment Process"
"The Trump administration is repeatedly disregarding the notice-and-comment process normally required for creating or repealing regulations, raising alarms from those who say it’s sidestepping safeguards against arbitrary and ineffective government action."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/30/2025
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