"Running Out: Texas’ Water Crisis — And The Path Forward"
"A growing population, leaking pipes and changing climate threaten the state’s water supply. Texas lawmakers hope a $20 billion investment will help."
Source: Texas Tribune, 09/15/2025
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"Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks"
"Rising temperatures have caused as many as 4.6 million extra dengue cases each year, and will cause many more by 2050, a new study finds."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/15/2025"Riding the High From Data Centers, the Grid Cannot Kick Its Gas Habit"
"Big Tech’s AI frenzy is pressing up electricity demand around the country. The power grid is stuck in natural gas-fuelled inertia, slow to bring new clean energy projects online and leaving consumers on the hook."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/15/2025"Much Of US Shark Meat Comes From Endangered Species, Study Finds"
"A recent study has revealed that the majority of shark meat available to American shoppers is mislabeled, with much of it coming from endangered species."
Source: Guardian, 09/15/2025"RFK Jr. Wants More Air Pollution Research, But EPA Shut Down Its Lab"
"Researching air quality is key to improving kids’ health, according to a new strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission unveiled Tuesday by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. There’s just one problem: EPA, under Zeldin’s leadership, has shuttered the preeminent laboratory in the country studying air pollution’s impact on people."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025"MAHA Promised Healthier Kids. But School Lunches May Deliver Less."
"Cuts to SNAP and farm-to-school programs under the Trump administration risk worsening childhood disease, nutrition experts warn."
Source: Capital & Main, 09/12/2025"Johnson Backs Virginia Wind Project In Break With Trump"
"House Speaker Mike Johnson is going to bat for an offshore wind project located off Virginia Beach at a time when the Trump administration has halted the construction of similar projects and the president himself has warned that support for the industry could cost politicians their careers."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025"House Republicans Add To Support For Maintaining NIH Budget In 2026"
"Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A bill released today would give the agency a base budget of about $47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, essentially the same level as this year."
Source: Science, 09/12/2025"Building Toward Disaster: Growth Collides With Rising Seas In Charleston"
"A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be forced to move?"
Source: Floodlight, 09/12/2025"Smoke From 2023 Canada Fires Linked To Thousands Of Deaths: Study"
"Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfires exposed more than 350 million people in North America and Europe to air pollution that likely contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, according to new estimates published Wednesday."
Source: Phys.org, 09/12/2025"Public Lands Were Made Free to All"
"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."
Source: Sierra, 09/12/2025Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil
"California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders."
Source: CalMatters, 09/12/2025"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says"
"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/2025Network Enables Indigenous People To Show Amazon Changes For Themselves
"Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed some huge changes."
Source: The Conversation, 09/12/2025Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."
Source: AP, 09/11/2025
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