EPA Sued For Approving Semiconductor Chemicals That May Pose Health Risks [1]
"Environmental and community groups sued the Trump administration on Friday over its approval of two chemicals for use in semiconductors despite posing health risks."

"Environmental and community groups sued the Trump administration on Friday over its approval of two chemicals for use in semiconductors despite posing health risks."
"For years, NextEra Energy boasted it was a “leading clean energy company.” Now, as renewable energy faces political opposition, it’s stopped emphasizing that."
"State regulators face calls to better protect low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities."
"Front group lauds purported benefits of data centers without disclosing its backer."
"The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left."
"About a month after President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, at least nine mining claims have been staked on land that is no longer protected from development, public records show."
"Hurricane Lala skirted Hawaii’s Big Island Saturday without making landfall and is expected to gradually weaken after lashing the region with strong winds and drenching rain that flooded roads and turned rivers into raging torrents."
"When sailing alone, even sleep is dangerous. Matt Rutherford knows this all too well. As he travels the Arctic, far from his home port of Annapolis, Md., the moments Rutherford does get to rest are precious. "It just becomes extremely difficult to get any sleep because if you hit the ice, you essentially die," he said."
"The US government’s experimentation with AI in rulemaking carries the risk that actions associated with the technology may be overturned in court, former federal officials warn."
"U.S. citizens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are spending hours waiting for water trucks after water rationing went into effect amid drought on the island archipelago. Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González declared a state of emergency in late July as the water in key dams dropped below levels that can support communities."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-sued-approving-semiconductor-chemicals-may-pose-health-risks
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6030328-epa-chemical-approval-lawsuit/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-world-s-largest-electric-company-fell-quiet-renewable-energy
[4] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15082026/nextera-energy-renewable/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/calif-pesticide-agency-hopelessly-captured-industry-critics-charge
[6] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/california-regulators-face-calls-to-better-protect-immigrants-from-pesticides/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/data-center-industry-s-pr-blitz-backfiring
[8] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/data-center-pr-blitz-backfiring/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/federal-job-cuts-are-making-wildfires-harder-fight
[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/climate/wildfires-forest-service-trump-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.51A.jAr0.LlVSLo8FpQO_&smid=url-share
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mining-claims-staked-land-trump-cut-monuments
[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/climate/mining-trump-utah-monuments.html?unlocked_article_code=1.51A.QPrR.7EivRbS3rZKx&smid=url-share
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hurricane-lala-lashes-hawaiis-big-island-wind-rain-no-landfall
[14] https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-tropical-storm-lala-hurricane-0c3d63c8a87943cdf8d57c530a7ed9d0
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/meet-man-circumnavigating-arctic-ocean-alone
[16] https://www.npr.org/2026/08/08/nx-s1-5923345/circumnavigate-arctic-ocean-matt-rutherford-10000-mile-odyssey
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ai-push-rulemaking-adds-new-legal-risks-federal-agencies
[18] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/growing-ai-use-in-government-poses-legal-risk-ex-officials-warn
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-you-need-know-about-water-crisis-puerto-rico
[20] https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-water-crisis-in-puerto-rico
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=9
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=6
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=7
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=8
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=11
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=12
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=13
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=14
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5065