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Thermal Drone Footage Shows Musk's AI Power Plant Flouting Clean Air Rules [1]

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight visual investigation. Thermal drone footage shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Miss., despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state permit in advance."

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Source: Floodlight [12], 02/18/2026
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Texas Alleges ‘Habitual Non-Compliance’ of Water Rules at Dow Chemical [13]

"The Texas Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon against Dow Chemical Co., North America’s largest chemical manufacturer, describing hundreds of water pollution violations from its industrial complex on the rural Gulf Coast in Seadrift."

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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 02/18/2026
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Senate Dems Say Trump EPA Curries Corporate Favor By Weakening Air Rules [20]

"Ozone and particulate matter air pollutants cause over 100,000 premature deaths per year and affect the health of millions of Americans. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said last month that his agency would stop considering those costs when drafting new regulations."

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Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [15]
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Source: Inside Climate News [25], 02/18/2026
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"States Push Climate Superfund Bills Despite Trump’s Opposition" [26]

"The legislation would make oil and gas firms pay for climate damages from burning their products. Trump has referred to such laws as ​'extortion.'"

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Canary Media [27], 02/18/2026
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Overshadowed by PFAS, PCBs Remain A Toxic Threat To Chesapeake Waters [28]

"Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, haven’t been produced since 1979, after studies found that exposure to them could cause a variety of harmful health effects, including cancer. But they were so widely used before then and so long-lasting that they still impair water quality in much of the tidal Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries."

Agriculture [29]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Source: Bay Journal [31], 02/18/2026
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"Bayer Proposes $7.25 Billion Class Action Settlement In Roundup Litigation" [32]

"In a bold bid to put costly US Roundup litigation behind it, Bayer on Tuesday announced a $7.25 billion proposed class action settlement for users of its glyphosate-based weed killing products who have cancer now or develop cancer in the next several years, with average awards ranging from $10,000 to $165,000."

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [14]
Consumer [21]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [7]
Science [33]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The New Lede [34], 02/18/2026
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Hazardous South L.A. Oil Wells Plugged After Decades Of Community Pressure [35]

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that state oil and gas regulators have permanently closed one of the most infamous drill sites in Los Angeles, bringing an end to a decades-long community campaign to prevent dangerous gas leaks and spills from rundown extraction equipment."

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Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [23]
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People & Population [16]
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Public [9]
California [36]
Source: LA Times [37], 02/17/2026
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"With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules" [38]

"The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be."

Climate Change [3]
Consumer [21]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [24]
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Pollution [7]
Transportation [39]
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Source: NYTimes [40], 02/17/2026
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Trump EPA Dropped Controversial DOE Report From Endangerment Finding Repeal [41]

"When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its bedrock endangerment finding Thursday, it explicitly excluded a controversial report issued last year by the U.S. Department of Energy that argued the dangers of human-induced climate change were being overstated."

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Source: Inside Climate News [42], 02/17/2026
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"Supreme Court Sets April Hearing For Roundup Preemption Case" [43]

"The US Supreme Court has set an April hearing in a closely watched case brought by Bayer that seeks to make the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ultimate arbiter of warning labels on pesticides such as the company’s popular Roundup weed killer."

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Source: The New Lede [44], 02/13/2026
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