"Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs"
"The ruling is expected to have broad implications for the energy sector."
Source: E&E News, 02/23/2026
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Tijuana River Sewage Crisis is a Long-Lasting Public Health Calamity
"Political gridlock has allowed the situation to worsen for decades"
Source: Sierra, 02/23/2026"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, 02/23/2026"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, 02/20/2026Doctors, Scientists and Kids Sue EPA for Backtracking on Climate Regs
"Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals mark the beginning of a rocky legal road for the Environmental Protection Agency following its reversal of a 2009 rule underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: Inside Climate News, 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"Whale Migration Season To Chile Underscores Threat From Ships And Nets"
"Increased activity by the fin whale - the world's second-largest whale species - along Chile's northern coast during feeding season is highlighting a growing threat of collisions with ships and fishing net entanglements, marine experts and conservationists warned this week."
Source: Reuters, 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, 02/20/2026To Fans, Fungi Are Freaky, Mystical, Overlooked. They Help Scientists Learn
"Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, only along North America’s Western coastlines."
Source: AP, 02/20/2026Environmental Groups Sue Trump EPA Over Repeal Of Landmark Climate Finding
"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations."
Source: Guardian, 02/19/2026
