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Maryland Supreme Court Dismisses Baltimore And Annapolis Climate Lawsuits [9]

"In a scathing decision issued Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Maryland tossed out climate change lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies by Baltimore, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, ruling the localities were stepping on the toes of the federal government."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Maryland Matters [21], 03/26/2026
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"States Are Lifting Bans On Nuclear Power" [22]

"After decades of aversion to the clean energy source, states are welcoming in nuclear developers as a way to meet surging electricity demand without fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [25]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Canary Media [26], 03/26/2026
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"Ohio Blocks Big Solar Farm, Despite Apparently Fake Public Comments" [27]

"Ohio regulators have blocked yet another major solar project because of local pushback, even though a significant number of public comments opposing the array appear to be fabricated. It’s the latest blow to solar in a state that defers to local governments on renewable energy, but not on fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Technology [28]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: Canary Media [30], 03/26/2026
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Ferocity Of Latest Hawaii Downpour, Flooding Surprised Even Meteorologists [31]

"Crews on Tuesday began evaluating damage from a surprise downpour that sent floodwaters raging through a neighborhood near downtown Honolulu — the latest bout in a series of storms and flooding that have pummeled the state over the past two weeks."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
People & Population [16]
Planning & Growth [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [35]
Source: AP [36], 03/26/2026
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Everglades Restoration Also Helps Save Planet from Climate Change: Study [37]

"New research shows the carbon absorbed by the Everglades is equal to 10 percent of the emissions coming from Florida roadways, but the watershed’s methane emissions complicate the picture."

Agriculture [38]
Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
International [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 03/26/2026
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"Record-Smashing Heat Spreads: ‘Basically The Entire US Is Going To Be Hot’" [44]

"After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic heat dome that’s baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [45], 03/25/2026
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"It’s 3 Times Harder For Blue States To Get Disaster Funding Under Trump" [46]

"The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states."

Activism [47]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [48], 03/25/2026
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Climate-Fueled Wildfires, Dust Storms Drove Global Air Pollution in 2025 [49]

"A new report on global air pollution shows that the majority of the world’s population breathes unhealthy air, and climate change is making the problem worse."

Air [50]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
International [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [51], 03/25/2026
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"Earth’s Greatest Underwater Migrations Are Disappearing" [52]

"From the Amazon to the Mekong, migratory freshwater fish underpin food security for millions, but over 300 species need urgent conservation intervention, warns a new UN report."

Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Public [18]
International [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 03/25/2026
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"Hurricane Evacuation Tool Will Soon Expire Due To DHS Approval Delays" [55]

"A tool thousands of communities at risk for hurricanes use to decide when to evacuate residents is set to expire Friday because the acting Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator has held up its full renewal, according to emails reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as four current and two former officials familiar with the situation."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Infrastructure [40]
People & Population [16]
Technology [28]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [56], 03/25/2026
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"Asia Boosts Coal Use As Iran War Squeezes Global LNG Supplies" [57]

"Asian countries are turning to coal as the Iran war disrupts oil and gas shipments."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [11]
Military [58]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
International [42]
Asia [59]
Source: AP [60], 03/25/2026
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Libya Tows Drifting Russian ‘Shadow’ Tanker To Avert A Mediterranean Spill [61]

"Libyan authorities were towing a Russian tanker drifting in the Mediterranean for the past three weeks, after the vessel was damaged in a suspected sea drone attack, officials said Tuesday."

Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
Africa [62]
Europe [63]
Source: AP [64], 03/25/2026
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"California Sues Trump To Keep Shut Oil Pipeline On Santa Barbara Coast" [65]

"California sued the Trump administration Monday to block what it says is an unprecedented power grab: using emergency authority to force the restart of an offshore oil operation shut down more than a decade ago."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [40]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [66]
Source: CalMatters [67], 03/25/2026
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"Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows 70 Percent Efficacy, Pfizer Says" [68]

"Four doses of an experimental vaccine to protect against Lyme disease reduced the number of tick-borne infections by more than 70 percent, according to Pfizer and Valneva, the pharmaceutical companies developing the shot." "If approved by regulators, it could become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for people — although it would not be the first."

Consumer [69]
Environmental Health [11]
Forests [70]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [71], 03/25/2026
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"Florida Panthers, An Endangered Species In Limbo" [72]

"Folklore dating to ancient Egypt has held that cats have nine lives and in modern times that mystique certainly seems true for the Florida panther. Sometimes it feels like everything in the world is trying to snuff out the panthers — everything human, that is. The panthers, a mountain lion subspecies, nearly went extinct in the 1990s, when the population dwindled to 20. That would have been embarrassing for Florida, which — thanks to a 1981 vote by schoolchildren — had designated the panther as the official state animal."

Biodiversity [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Planning & Growth [33]
Wildlife [73]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: National Parks Traveler [74], 03/25/2026
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