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Alito Gained Up To $2.9M From Oil And Gas Assets Since Joining Court [9]

"The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows." "Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case".

Climate Change [10]
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Source: Guardian [20], 08/12/2026
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Dems Probe Uranium Company For Insider Trading Tied To Bears Ears [21]

"House Democrats are investigating whether executives at a uranium company operating in Utah engaged in possible insider trading by making investments days before President Donald Trump opened a nearby national monument to mining."

Conflict/Corruption [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Source: E&E News [26], 08/12/2026
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"Trump Administration Kills a Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic" [27]

"The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes and scrambling Great Power strategy."

Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [22]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [23]
Science [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [32]
Antarctica & Arctic [33]
Source: New York Times [34], 08/12/2026
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Opinion: Drought, Rationing And Dry Rivers: Global Water Crisis Is Here [35]

"Disturbing news about our water resources is now constant and unrelenting. In just the past few weeks, media have reported that Puerto Rico is suffering a deep water crisis as severe drought has cut water supplies to thousands. The Rhine and Po rivers in Europe are at record low levels. The seven states sharing the Colorado River in the US are fighting over unprecedented shortages, while its major reservoirs have shrunk to their lowest levels since they were built."

Agriculture [36]
Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [37]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [22]
Infrastructure [40]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [32]
Source: Guardian [41], 08/12/2026
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Anti-Uranium Advocates Swamp Hearing On Proposed Mine Near Navajo Land [42]

"A recent hearing meant to inform the public about a new uranium mine proposal near Church Rock instead exposed wounds around the legacy of mining’s impacts on Navajo communities, as well as fresh concerns about whether technology that promises to safely extract the mineral is as clean as the industry claims."

Activism [43]
Consumer [37]
Disasters [38]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [24]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [45]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: Source New Mexico [47], 08/12/2026
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One Year On And The Global Plastics Treaty 'Is Going Backwards' [48]

"A new Aid to Negotiations document for the Global Plastics Treaty has been released a year after Geneva's collapse, but campaigners warn it dilutes key measures and retreats from the ambition needed to end plastic pollution."

Activism [43]
Chemicals [49]
Consumer [37]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Justice [14]
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Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [45]
Technology [17]
Waste [50]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [32]
Source: Oceanographic [51], 08/12/2026
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"On These Motorcycles, the Thrill Is Truly Electric" [52]

"The frenzy started on a single street in Lahore, Pakistan, where a half-dozen showrooms sprang up selling the same thing — electric motorcycles — and still couldn’t keep up with demand." "With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. The Iran war has made Trump “salesman of the year,” one executive in Pakistan said."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [37]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [45]
Technology [17]
Transportation [53]
Public [18]
International [32]
Asia [54]
Source: New York Times [55], 08/12/2026
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FDA Tightens Oversight On Foods “Generally Recognized As Safe” [56]

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making it harder for manufacturers to deem their own chemical ingredients as safe."

Agriculture [36]
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Food [57]
Laws & Regulations [16]
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Pollution [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The New Lede [58], 08/12/2026
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‘When You Kill It, It Doesn’t Die’: Jellyfish Cracks Code Of Immortality [59]

"Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again".

Biodiversity [28]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Studies [60]
Fish & Fisheries [61]
Science [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [32]
Source: Guardian [62], 08/12/2026
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Summer’s Strongest Meteor Shower Is Peaking. Here’s How to Watch. [63]

"The moon’s shadow will descend upon Earth on Wednesday, and some will bear witness to a total solar eclipse. But the universe won’t stop there: At night, nature’s fireworks will accent the sky as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak."

Environmental Studies [60]
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Science [30]
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National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [64]
International [32]
Canada [65]
Antarctica & Arctic [33]
Source: New York Times [66], 08/12/2026
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Trump Signs Order Attempting To Override CDC Vaccine Schedule [67]

"Donald Trump has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that attempts to override the authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."

Environmental Health [39]
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Government [22]
Health [68]
People & Population [44]
Science [30]
Technology [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [69], 08/11/2026
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Top Science Body Deletes Climate Chapter From Judges’ Manual [70]

"The nation’s top scientific body has removed a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after an outcry from critics on the right, including President Trump."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [30]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: New York Times [71], 08/11/2026
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Nebraska Feedlot: A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme [72]

"In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete."

Agriculture [36]
Biodiversity [28]
Climate Change [10]
Food [57]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [73]
Source: Inside Climate News [74], 08/11/2026
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EPA Moves To Rescind Biden-Era Tribal Water Quality Rule [75]

"The Trump administration plans to rescind an EPA rule requiring states to consider tribes’ rights to fish, hunt and gather wild plants when establishing water quality protections — a policy the administration argues went beyond the agency’s authority."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [61]
Food [57]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [23]
People & Population [44]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [76]
Water & Oceans [31]
Wildlife [77]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [78], 08/11/2026
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Cyberattacks On Water Utilities Renew Dem Calls For Regulations [79]

"Two Senate Democrats introduced a bill Monday to set cybersecurity standards for water utilities — something Republicans and industry have long fought."

Consumer [37]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Health [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [22]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [45]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [80], 08/11/2026
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