Trump Lifts Summer Gasoline Restrictions Early As Prices Remain Stubborn
"The Trump administration is ending summertime smog restrictions on gasoline early this year in a bid to offer relief for high prices at the pump."
Source: The Hill, 08/21/2026
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Japan's Farmers Go Nocturnal As Deadly Heat Intensifies
"Long after sunset, Motoaki Iijima’s illuminated greenhouse north of Tokyo glows like a lantern as the flower farmer harvests pink and orange gerberas, avoiding a daytime sun fierce enough to be deadly."
Source: Reuters, 08/21/2026A Pizza-Sized Ocean Predator And A Tribe Are Trying To Protect Each Other
"On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, just east of the San Juan Islands."
Source: NPR, 08/21/202612 Picks For Your Last Book Of The Summer
"August though it is, there’s still at least one good book left of summer. So this month’s post offers 12 possible choices for your final summer read: six non-fiction and six fiction."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 08/21/2026Enviros Sue Over Trump Push For Deep-Sea Mining Around American Samoa
"A legal environmental group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to halt the Trump administration’s plans announced last month to auction off sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining."
Source: AP, 08/20/2026Data Centers Could Use More Power Than All Alabama Homes. Who Will Pay?
"Alabama Power has guaranteed that residents’ power bills won’t increase as a result. Can the state’s largest utility keep its promise?"
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/20/2026As Seas Rise, Scientists Race to Save Coastal Marshes From Drowning
"A majority of coastal wetlands are on track to shift inland or disappear in the coming decades without intervention. That will have major consequences."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/20/2026Court Upholds EPA Rule Forcing Polluters To Pay For PFAS Pollution
"An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule putting polluters on the hook to clean up toxic “forever chemicals” was upheld in court on Tuesday despite an industry challenge."
Source: The Hill, 08/20/20264 In 10 Americans Say Extreme Weather Damaged Their Towns In Past Year
"Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their communities were damaged by extreme weather events over the past year, according to a new survey released Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 08/20/2026Sage Geosystems Brings Its First Next-Gen Geothermal Plant Online
"It’s only the third such project to hook up to the U.S. grid. It comes as surging electricity demand drives interest in the source of around-the-clock clean power."
Source: Canary Media, 08/20/2026North Carolina Poultry Industry Grows As Manure Oversight Lags: Report
"North Carolina’s poultry industry continues to add more birds to already highly concentrated barns, generating millions of tons of manure that is largely unregulated by the state, according to a new report."
Source: The New Lede, 08/20/2026Musk Posted, And She Lost Her FEMA Job. Now, She Seeks To Clear Her Name.
"A senior Federal Emergency Management Agency official fired early last year is seeking to clear her name after Elon Musk blamed her for allowing payments to New York City to house immigrants, which she said was approved by a U.S. DOGE Service aide."
Source: Washington Post, 08/20/2026US To Send Hospital Ship To Peru As El Nino Threat Looms
"The United States will send a military hospital ship to Peru’s Pacific coast next year to help Peru cope with the effects of the El Nino climate phenomenon as part of a broader collaboration with the South American country, U.S. Ambassador to Peru Bernie Navarro announced Wednesday."
Source: AP, 08/20/2026Florida Jellyfish Museum All About The Mesmerizing Floating Predators
"The floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on the walls and the glowing light from the saltwater tanks."
Source: AP, 08/20/2026Trump Admin To Lift Logging Limits In National Forests
"The Trump administration plans to remove restrictions on logging across more than 40 million acres of national forest, the Agriculture Department said."
Source: E&E News, 08/19/2026
