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How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Environmental Policies [1]

"The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state’s efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [14]
Source: New York Times [15], 08/21/2026
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Trump Cancels Biden-Era Bid To Speed Power Line Construction [16]

"The Trump administration is canceling a Biden-era effort to speed up power line construction in parts of Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Consumer [17]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [18]
Planning & Growth [19]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [21], 08/14/2026
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Utility, Tech Firms ‘Educate’ Regulators With Donations, Secret Retreats [22]

"As a pink-and-gold sunset faded over the waterside Ben Hotel, Republican state utility officials streamed out of a reception where they had been imbibing with executives from the industries they regulate."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [23]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [24], 08/13/2026
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Dems Probe Uranium Company For Insider Trading Tied To Bears Ears [25]

"House Democrats are investigating whether executives at a uranium company operating in Utah engaged in possible insider trading by making investments days before President Donald Trump opened a nearby national monument to mining."

Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Government [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [26]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Source: E&E News [29], 08/12/2026
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Alito Gained Up To $2.9M From Oil And Gas Assets Since Joining Court [30]

"The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows." "Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case".

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [32], 08/12/2026
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Inside Doug Burgum’s Rocky Tenure At Interior [33]

"Interior Department staffers were optimistic after Doug Burgum was confirmed to lead the agency in 2025... . But since he took over at Interior last year, that hope has been replaced by confusion and concern that the agency is poorly run, has devolved into secrecy and has lost thousands of the staff needed to manage the national park systems and millions of acres of public lands."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [23]
Wildlife [35]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [36], 08/11/2026
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Trump Is Blocking Billions Of Dollars Of Grants That Would Fix The Grid [37]

"The Department of Energy has canceled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the country’s stressed grid — and not just in blue states."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Canary Media [38], 08/10/2026
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Ex-White House Official, Project 2025 Author, Picked as DOI Watchdog [39]

"President Trump has nominated a former White House official and Project 2025 author to be the Interior Department’s internal watchdog, a move that critics say could hurt the integrity of the office’s investigations."

Biodiversity [34]
Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [40]
Wildlife [35]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [41], 08/10/2026
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Trump Launched Big New Solar Tariffs. Here’s What It Means. [42]

"A far-reaching new tariff on solar imports promises to both raise the cost of installing the clean energy source and strengthen efforts to reshore solar manufacturing."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [43]
Source: Canary Media [44], 08/10/2026
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Amid AI Boom, Coal Returns — With a Familiar Cost To Black Neighbors [45]

"Trump’s order keeping an Orlando coal plant online renews environmental justice concerns over who pays AI’s pollution bill." "The fight over Stanton Unit 1 illustrates how America's AI boom could prolong coal pollution that has historically fallen hardest on Black communities."

Air [46]
Chemicals [47]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Consumer [17]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [10]
Technology [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: Word in Black [49], 07/31/2026
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