"Trump’s Exemption For EtO Polluters Faces Its Latest Test In Court"
"The president exempted about 40 medical sterilization companies from Biden-era emissions standards. A new lawsuit challenges his authority."
Source: Grist, 02/03/2026
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Experts Call Omaha Coal Plant Clean Bill Of Health Misleading
"On paper, the public power district serving much of eastern Nebraska has been trying to quit coal at its North Omaha plant since 2014. That June, its board voted to retire three of the plant’s five coal units in 2016 and convert the final two to natural gas in 2023."
Source: Flatwater Free Press, 02/03/2026
"Feds Greenlight $2B Renewable Energy Project On Yakama Nation Sacred Site"
"Federal energy regulators last Thursday greenlit a roughly $2 billion renewable energy megaproject on a Yakama Nation sacred site overlooking the Columbia River in Klickitat County."
Source: Washington State Standard, 02/03/2026
"Undoing Utah National Monument Protections Risks Legal Chaos"
"Republicans have a clear path to open national monuments to mining and fossil fuels by tossing out Biden-era conservation plans, but legal analysts say such a move would risk legal chaos."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/03/2026
Trump Energy Dept. Exempts New Nuclear Reactors From Environmental Review
"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."
Source: NPR, 02/03/2026
"Courts Allow All Five Offshore Wind Projects Blocked By Trump To Resume"
"A federal court on Monday halted the last of five stop work orders issued by the Trump administration in December to block major offshore wind farms, giving the wind energy industry five legal wins in a row over the government."
Source: The Hill, 02/03/2026
"Trump Announces $12B Minerals Stockpile"
"The U.S. will put together a $12 billion minerals stockpile, President Trump announced in the Oval Office on Monday."
Source: The Hill, 02/03/2026
"Judge Rules Department Of Energy’s Climate Working Group Was Illegal"
"On Friday, a judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the law in forming its Climate Working Group, which released a report that was intended to undercut the rationale behind greenhouse gas regulations. The judge overseeing the case determined that the government tried to treat the Climate Working Group as a formal advisory body, while not having it obey many of the statutory requirements that govern such bodies."
Source: Ars Techbica, 02/03/2026
Superfund Under Trump 2.0 — Quick … and Dirty?
Every U.S. state has at least one Superfund site, the worst kind of toxic waste dump. And millions live near them. The latest TipSheet has a look at the state of the decades-old Superfund cleanup program under the Trump administration, and how environmental journalists can turn that into local stories, with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.
ANWR Well Is Deep and Dark — But Is It Dry?
Journalists love a secret. And WatchDog Opinion delves into a whopper on the environment beat — the hidden data surrounding a singular test well drilled in one of the most contested ecosystems in the United States. Now that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been reopened for oil leasing by the Trump administration, do the findings even matter? More on the saga.
