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House Passes Bill To Put Data Center Electricity Costs On Tech Companies [1]

"The House on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at shielding Americans from increased electricity costs associated with data centers"

Source: The Hill [2], 09/17/2026

America’s Air Monitors Are Disappearing — With Power To Expose Polluters [3]

"Laws in Louisiana and other states now curb the use of community-collected data. In Louisiana, public air monitors are often located miles from major industrial polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals."

Source: Floodlight [4], 09/14/2026

AI Boom Poses Growing Public Health Threat, Former EPA Officials Warn [5]

"A group representing more than 800 former employees of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday sounded the alarm over the health consequences of data centers. It warned that Trump administration policies to weaken pollution safeguards and speed up approvals of the facilities threatened to exacerbate those health harms."

Source: New York Times [6], 09/11/2026

U.S. to Loan $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa [7]

"The Energy Department said on Tuesday that it would lend up to $1.9 billion to help restart a shuttered nuclear power plant in Iowa, in the Trump administration’s latest move aimed at reviving nuclear energy in the United States." "No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so."

Source: New York Times [8], 09/09/2026

How The Data Center Backlash Is Growing In U.S. Statehouses [9]

"As legislation is introduced at a record pace, public opposition is driving more proposals that seek to restrict the tech giants."

Source: Washington Post [10], 09/08/2026

PJM Has Finally Greenlit A Lot Of New Clean Power. Can It Get Built? [11]

"The country’s biggest energy market has a problem: It can’t build enough power plants to keep up with electricity demand." "More than 50 GW of solar, wind, and batteries can now connect to PJM’s grid. It could help drive down costs — if states, utilities, and hyperscalers make it happen."

Source: Canary Media [12], 08/27/2026

MAHA Moms Take On Coal [13]

"The Make America Healthy Again movement has taken on many issues over the past few years: pesticides, processed foods, vaccines. Now it has another target, and it’s one that President Trump likes to promote: coal."

Source: New York Times [14], 08/27/2026

As AI Data Centers Expand, New Cooling Chemicals Raise PFAS Concerns [15]

"The artificial intelligence race is creating demand for more than data centers and electricity. It is also creating a new market for the chemicals needed to keep increasingly powerful computer chips from overheating. Some of those cooling technologies rely on PFAS, a broad class of fluorinated compounds already responsible for widespread drinking water contamination in North Carolina."

Source: WRAL [16], 08/27/2026

Data Center Developers in Texas Plan Massive New Gas Power Projects [17]

"A handful of mega data center projects would emit over 100 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, an enormous amount roughly equal to the annual emissions of a mid-sized industrialized country."

Source: Inside Climate News [18], 08/27/2026

EPA Moves to Curb Public Input on State Data Center Air Permits [19]

"The Trump administration is moving to make it harder for communities to weigh in on proposed data centers, even as a backlash against the behemoth projects grows across the country." "Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects."

Source: New York Times [20], 08/26/2026

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