"Data Center Boom Raises Environmental Justice Concerns In Maryland"
"As Staci Hartwell sees it, her community has much more to lose than to gain from the development of a massive data center."
Source: Bay Journal, 06/01/2026
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"Voters In 9 States Will Pick The People Overseeing Their Power Bills"
"Public utility commissions have a ton of influence over utility rate hikes and power plant construction, but only a handful of states let voters decide who’s on them."
Source: Canary Media, 06/01/2026"Think It’s Hot Now? The Next Five Years Will Smash Records, UN Says"
"In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections."
Source: AP, 06/01/2026"The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims"
"There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans." "The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims."
Source: WIRED, 06/01/2026"ESA Success Stories: Survival Of The Protected"
"In 1782, when the United States adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol, anecdotal accounts stated that the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. By the mid-1900s, habitat destruction, illegal shooting, and DDT contamination had driven bald eagles near extinction."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 06/01/202611 Presumed Dead As Recovery Efforts Resume In Wash. Chemical Tank Rupture
"Search crews are expected to navigate treacherous circumstances as they continue efforts to recover nine people, who are presumed dead, a day after a deadly chemical tank rupture at a paper plant in Washington state."
Source: CNN, 05/29/2026"Water Shortages Worsen Across Cuba As Oil Supplies Dwindle"
"Nearly 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade, authorities said late Wednesday during a roundtable discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing blockade."
Source: AP, 05/29/2026"EPA’s Power Plant Repeal Could Leave Some Rules In Place"
"EPA’s efforts to undo Biden-era climate rules for power plants could get a major overhaul before they clear White House review, according to some insiders watching the process."
Source: E&E News, 05/29/2026"Interior Rolls Out ‘National Map’ Of Public Lands, Waters"
"The Interior Department unveiled Thursday the first iteration of a new public tool for mapping federal lands and waters, rolling out a unified “national map” with boundaries used by five agencies."
Source: E&E News, 05/29/2026House Spending Plan Slaps Hefty Inspection Fees On Offshore Wind Projects
"The Republican appropriations bill for the Interior Department proposes per-turbine fees for wind projects, potentially boosting those costs much higher than fees paid by oil and gas companies."
Source: E&E News, 05/29/2026"Illinois Tightens PFAS Oversight Amid Federal Rollback Efforts"
"Illinois lawmakers last week passed a new law establishing more robust requirements for monitoring per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS “forever chemicals” — in wastewater discharges at major facilities across the state. The deciding 64-34 House vote came just days after the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rescinding limits for select toxic PFAS compounds in drinking water — a decision that environmental advocates, and the Illinois EPA, immediately rebuffed."
Source: Circle of Blue, 05/29/2026"Heat Warnings Are Issued Across Canada’s Prairies"
"Canada’s first big heat wave of the year was expected to bring prolonged warm weather to southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba."
Source: New York Times, 05/29/2026"Environmentalists Turn Out in Force to Oppose Trump Coal Ash Rollbacks"
"At a virtual public comment hearing hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, a long line of environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements that utilities must follow in cleaning up toxic coal ash residue at hundreds of sites across the country at which coal was burned to produce electricity."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/29/2026"Michigan Loves A ‘River Story.’ But Happy Ending Isn’t Guaranteed"
"Michigan may be known as the Great Lakes state, but most of its residents have a river to thank for their hometown’s existence."
Source: Bridge Michigan, 05/29/2026"Could New Tech Help Save Some Very Rare Whales?"
"Trackers that ping satellites every time a whale surfaces for air. Thermal cameras that can detect the animals day and night. Acoustic devices that monitor their calls." "Innovative systems to keep ships from hitting North Atlantic right whales are coming into use. The Trump administration is weighing whether they can replace a bedrock protection."
Source: New York Times, 05/29/2026
