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Alabama Power Gets OK to Buy $622 Million Natural Gas Plant For Data Centers [1]

"Alabama state regulators have cleared the way for Alabama Power to purchase an 895-megawatt gas-fired power plant, further tying Alabama’s largest electric utility to climate-polluting natural gas for decades to come."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [9], 08/06/2025
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Trump Reshaped Climate Program To Extract More Oil. Occidental Could Profit [10]

"Occidental Petroleum could benefit from bigger subsidies for using carbon dioxide to squeeze more crude from sputtering wells." 

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Technology [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [14], 08/06/2025
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"Another Burgum Order Coldcocks Solar And Wind" [15]

"An order issued late Friday by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that targets wind and solar development has left renewable energy developers and industry observers scrambling to determine whether green energy has any future in the Trump administration."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Technology [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [18], 08/06/2025
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"As EPA Weakens Rules On ‘Forever Chemicals,’ States Are Moving Forward" [19]

"At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states." 

Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [22], 08/06/2025
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"Air Quality Alerts In Place For 10 States Due To Canadian Wildfires" [23]

"The National Weather Service announced air quality alerts in 10 states Tuesday as smoke from the Canadian wildfires continues to spread across the U.S. border."

Air [24]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [16]
Forests [26]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Canada [27]
Source: The Hill [28], 08/06/2025
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"E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy" [29]

"The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Technology [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [30], 08/06/2025
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Nations Gather In Geneva To Again Confront The World’s Plastic Crisis [31]

"Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet."

Chemicals [20]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [32]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Waste [34]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [6]
International [35]
Source: AP [36], 08/06/2025
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"Pesticide Manufacturer Spent More Than $200K Lobbying In Iowa" [37]

"Bayer, the biotech company and manufacturer of Round Up, has substantially increased its spending on lobbying in Iowa since the introduction of a pesticide labeling bill in 2024."

Agriculture [38]
Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [39]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [40]
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch [41], 08/05/2025
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"Experts Slam Chesapeake Bay Draft Plan Over Lack of Pollution Targets" [42]

"The newest draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement lacks meaningful pollution reduction targets and allows states to evade legal accountability, according to concerned environmental advocates and experts who have reviewed the document."

Agriculture [38]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [43]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [44]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 08/05/2025
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Amid PFAS Rollbacks, New Jersey Scores Record $2 Billion DuPont Settlement [47]

"While the federal government is scaling back regulations on “forever chemicals,” New Jersey is holding polluters accountable, announcing a record-breaking $2 billion settlement with DuPont and several related companies with a $875 million payout and up to $1.2 billion in cleanup costs."

Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 08/05/2025
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