After White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
"Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are 'overwhelmingly' non-white."
Source: Capital B, 01/09/2026
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"Arid States Prepare for EPA to Walk Away From Their Wetlands"
"Southwestern states are bracing for many of their streams to lose federal safeguards under the EPA’s proposal to lift Clean Water Act protections for many wetlands and waterways across the US. New Mexico, Arizona, California, and other arid states face the brunt of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal because it explicitly excludes streams that only run when it rains—one of the most common kinds of waterways in the desert Southwest."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/24/2025
"Trump Plan Waives Protection At +80% Of Wetlands"
"In some states, more than 90 percent of wetlands could be excluded from safeguards provided by the Clean Water Act."
Source: E&E News, 11/19/2025
EPA Moves To Limit Scope Of Clean Water Law To Reduce Wetlands It Covers
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas."
Source: AP, 11/18/2025
"Does Nature Have Rights?"
"By now, we are accustomed to thinking of climate change in terms of human rights. What if we were to think as much about the rights of nature itself – of pets and backyard birds, coyotes and spruce trees, mountains and rivers, ecosystems and the climate, the air that surrounds us?"
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 11/14/2025
"Cranberry Farmers Consider Turning Bogs Into Wetlands as Temperatures Rise"
"Massachusetts is helping to transform cranberry bogs into habitats that broaden conservation and climate change resilience."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/28/2025
New Fla. Law Blocks Communities' Efforts to Be More Sustainable and Resilient
"Manatee County’s commissioners didn’t expect to be threatened with removal from office for considering two measures meant to enhance disaster resilience in this fast-growing county on Florida’s Gulf Coast."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/21/2025
Judge Rules Permit For Cameron Parish LNG Terminal Ignored Climate Impacts
"A Cameron Parish judge has ruled that state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution when they issued a permit for a liquified gas export terminal, which has halted construction on the facility."
Source: Louisiana Illuminator, 10/17/2025
"The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights"
"A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/06/2025
"What Do Fens Do? Make Peat, Store Water And Help Combat Climate Change"
"Meet the researchers restoring these unique wetlands high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains."
Source: High Country News, 09/30/2025
