Environmental Justice

Sunrise Co-Founder, Data Center Critic Nabs Big Michigan Primary

"William Lawrence, a data center moratorium supporter who co-founded the progressive Sunrise Movement, won a critical Michigan congressional primary Tuesday over two more-moderate and better-funded Democrats."

Source: E&E News, 08/07/2026

El Niño Could Push 50M People Into Acute Hunger By End Of Next Year

"About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting. This is in addition to the hundreds of millions of people already facing dangerous levels of hunger, owing to years of drought in parts of Africa and pressure on food prices from the war in Iran."

Source: Guardian, 08/07/2026

EPA Claims Omaha Cleanup As Success, But Many Yards Still Have Lead

"The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead."

Source: Flatwater Free Press, 08/06/2026

Latin American News Startup: ‘The Most Accurate Truth’

"After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource."

Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 08/05/2026

5 Amazon Countries Arrest 100s In Crackdown On Environmental Crime

"Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals and thousands of livestock in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns on environmental crime ever carried out in the world’s largest rainforest."

Source: AP, 08/05/2026

Crews Building Trump Border Wall In N.M. Ordered To Stop Drilling Wells

"Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought."

Source: Guardian, 08/05/2026

Appeals Court Says Trump EPA Was Wrong To Kill $20 Billion Climate Fund

"A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort."

Source: AP, 08/05/2026

EPA 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, 08/04/2026

Anger 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, 08/04/2026

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