"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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"Documents Shed New Light On Interior Official's Growing Ethics Scandal"
"President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is withholding key ethics disclosure information for Karen Budd-Falen, a high-ranking agency appointee who is facing calls for an investigation into her financial ties to a massive lithium mining project, Public Domain has learned."
Source: Public Domain, 02/24/2026"Virginia Senate Proposes to End Data Center Tax Exemption in January"
"The Virginia Senate’s Finance and Appropriations Committee approved budget legislation for the coming fiscal year that ends a tax exemption for data centers on January 1."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/24/2026"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"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, 02/23/2026Groundbreaking 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, 02/23/2026Trump 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, 02/23/2026As 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"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"Pesticide Use And Cancer Risk Rise Together Across America’s Heartland"
"America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame."
Source: Investgate Midwest, 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‘Safe’ BPA Substitutes Tied To Infertility, Fetal Harm, Review Finds
"Chemicals increasingly used to replace the toxic plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health through many of the same biological mechanisms, according to a narrative review of human, animal and laboratory studies."
Source: U.S. Right to Know, 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"Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend"
"Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/20/2026Trump 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
