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Alabama Data Center NDA Required City to Destroy Records: Doc Shows [1]

"Residents widely oppose the secrecy agreement signed by the city’s mayor and city attorney over Project Marvel, a proposed $14.5 billion hyperscale data center in Bessemer, Alabama."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 07/14/2026
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Exxon’s Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ's Environment Division [17]

"The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [9]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: DeSmog [20], 07/13/2026
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EPA Joins DOJ’s Legal Defense of Musk’s xAI [21]

"The Trump administration is working to correct an apparent mistake in its unusual petition to end an environmental lawsuit by the NAACP against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. Now, the Justice Department says, its motion is also backed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin."

Activism [22]
Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: E&E News [23], 07/10/2026
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Greens Say UK News Channel Owner Profits From Attacks On Climate Action [24]

"Exclusive: Campaigners argue news channel’s attacks on climate action ‘work in financial interests’ of Sir Paul Marshall"

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Science [25]
Public [14]
Europe [26]
Source: Guardian [27], 07/07/2026
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Trump Pardons 9 People Convicted Of Violating Vehicle Emissions Controls [28]

"President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles."

Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Consumer [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Technology [13]
Transportation [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [30], 07/06/2026
  • Read more about Trump Pardons 9 People Convicted Of Violating Vehicle Emissions Controls [28]

Court Hands Trump New Power Over Independent Agencies Overseeing Energy [31]

"A nearly century-old precedent that has been in conservatives’ cross-hairs for years met its demise Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled to limit the independence of agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission."

Activism [22]
Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Studies [32]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [34], 07/01/2026
  • Read more about Court Hands Trump New Power Over Independent Agencies Overseeing Energy [31]

"Trump’s Sons Stand to Profit From the Critical Minerals Arms Race" [35]

"Donald Trump’s network of family businesses — and network of US government deals with those businesses — is mind-bogglingly wide. A New York Times investigation reveals his sons’ latest venture: tungsten mining in Kazakhstan."

Chemicals [36]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [9]
Infrastructure [37]
Natural Resources [38]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [39]
Asia [40]
Source: Mother Jones [41], 06/30/2026
  • Read more about "Trump’s Sons Stand to Profit From the Critical Minerals Arms Race" [35]

Lawmakers Demand Answers Amid Ongoing Turmoil Over Reflecting Pool [42]

"Congressional Democrats called for investigations Wednesday into renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as the ongoing drama over the president’s problem-plagued, $16 million rehabilitation project continued to roil the capital."

Biodiversity [43]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Technology [13]
Water & Oceans [45]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: AP [47], 06/26/2026
  • Read more about Lawmakers Demand Answers Amid Ongoing Turmoil Over Reflecting Pool [42]

Carbon Captured [48]

"In the 1990s, even as they denied the reality of climate change, oil company executives were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses."

Chemicals [36]
Climate Change [2]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Science [25]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [39]
Source: ProPublica/Drilled [49], 06/26/2026
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EPA Relied on Roundup Study After Learning Monsanto Was a “Ghost Writer” [50]

"A newly revealed government memo identifies yet another compromised paper used to justify Roundup’s safety."

"The US Environmental Protection Agency has known for nearly a decade that an influential 2013 scientific paper that concluded glyphosate is safe was actually ghostwritten by developer Monsanto. But the agency never informed the public and continued to rely on it, according to an EPA memo obtained by Mother Jones and revealed here for the first time.

Agriculture [51]
Chemicals [36]
Conflict/Corruption [3]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [52]
Pollution [12]
Science [25]
Technology [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Mother Jones [53], 06/26/2026
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