"Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 29 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold."

"Six cities and 13 nonprofit groups still cannot recoup millions of dollars after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this week overturned a lower court’s ruling that forbade the Trump administration from terminating or freezing grant funding for environmental justice, agricultural and climate programs."

"The city of Philadelphia on Thursday sued the Department of the Interior after National Park Service staff removed an exhibit on slavery from the President’s House site in Independence National Historical Park."

"The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed."

"The Trump administration says the regulation will ease permitting expenses. Utilities say costs could shift to them and their customers."

"New federal decisions remove health protections as Black communities face rising pollution and asthma rates."

"The global skin-lightening market is worth over $10 billion and growing, but the unregulated products driving it contain dangerous chemicals linked to serious health risks."

"The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in one of the world’s most dangerous regions for environmental defenders."

"Sponsors of a new bill want to give the industry immunity from lawsuits brought by injured employees. That will kill even more workers, experts warn."