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Battle Over Gas Power Facility Generates Months-Long Investigation [1]

A private social media message piqued Arizona Republic reporter Joan Meiners’ interest in rural retirees’ efforts to block construction of a gas-fired peaker plant next to their homes. Her year-long, grant-funded investigation in 2024 uncovered questionable local government actions and utility executive motives, and concluded with action against the facility. Read Meiners’ account of how rural Arizonans became unlikely climate activists, in the latest FEJ Storylog.

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FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Air [4]
Consumer [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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"Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas" [16]

"Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on site." 

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [19]
Pollution [12]
Technology [20]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 06/06/2025
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"USDOT Seeks Comment on Pipeline and Hazmat Regulatory Relief" [22]

"The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced that the agency is seeking public comment on two Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to reduce regulatory burdens imposed on the energy sector."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Pipeline Technology Journal [27], 06/05/2025
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"Senate to Add Public Land Sales to Help Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts" [28]

"Senate Republicans plan to add the sale of public land into their version of President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts, according to a key lawmaker." 

Biodiversity [29]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Forests [30]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg [32], 06/05/2025
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"White House Nominates Energy Attorney Laura Swett To FERC Seat" [33]

"President Donald Trump nominated energy attorney Laura Swett to fill Chair Mark Christie’s term-limited seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [34], 06/04/2025
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"More Lobbyists Turn Up At Trump’s Interior Department" [35]

"Two more former industry lobbyists have taken up influential positions at President Trump’s Interior Department, Public Domain has learned." "They join a stable of industry insiders at DOI, including DOGE operative Tyler Hassen, who made millions in the energy sector before joining the agency" 

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Natural Resources [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Public Domain [36], 06/04/2025
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Ohio Ban On Settlements To Close ​‘Base Load’ Power Plants Dims Clean Energy [37]

"House Bill 15 forbids settlements to close or curtail ​“base load” power plants, which exclude renewables. The law may pave the way for future fossil-fuel subsidies."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Source: Canary Media [39], 06/04/2025
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"Meta Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation Energy" [40]

"Facebook’s parent company Meta locked in 20 years of nuclear power on Tuesday from Constellation Energy to help meet the tech giant’s surging energy demand for artificial intelligence and its other power-intensive computing needs."

Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [41]
Technology [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 06/04/2025
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"White House Proposes Shutting Down Chemical Safety Agency" [43]

"An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters — including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide — would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed language in White House budget documents released Friday."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [44], 06/04/2025
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"Trump Touts US Steel-Nippon Steel Deal That Could Result In More Coal" [45]

"The Japanese steelmaker has pledged to extend the life of U.S. Steel’s dirty blast furnaces if Trump greenlights a deal, potentially locking in decades of pollution."

Air [4]
Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Canary Media [46], 06/03/2025
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