"Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says"
"Florida plans to shut down the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz as soon as early June, according to a news report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/15/2026
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Budd-Falen’s Ex-Clients Wanted Bison Off Public Land. Burgum Intervened.
"In administrative cases before DOI, Interior Secretary Burgum intervened to make policy changes that involved or benefited the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies."
Source: Public Domain, 05/15/2026
Watchdog Groups Urge Senate To Investigate Alito Over Oil Stock Conflicts
"The supreme court justice Samuel Alito, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit big oil, government watchdog groups say. In a Thursday letter, a coalition of watchdog organizations called on the Senate judiciary committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies."
Source: Guardian, 05/15/2026
"US EPA Proposes Delaying Enforcement Of Biden Vehicle Pollution Rule"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a delay in enforcement of a regulation requiring significant cuts in air pollution from vehicles."
Source: Reuters, 05/15/2026
Trump EPA Aims To Roll Back Limits On Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to roll back limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers through polluted groundwater, saying a three-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking."
Source: AP, 05/15/2026
"China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead"
"While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those sectors."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/15/2026
"Why Swedish Scientists Gave Salmon Cocaine"
"A recent study caught our eye: salmon on cocaine. Or really, researchers giving salmon cocaine…for science."
Source: NPR, 05/14/2026
Groups Challenge NC Utilities Commission Chair’s Pause of Solar Projects
"Advocates for solar energy are asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to overturn an unusual order by its chairman directing Duke Energy to stop its 2026 solar procurement process."
Source: NC Newsline, 05/14/2026
Media Visibility Likely A Main Driver Of Increased Park Visitation: Study
"Tourism-oriented messaging in the media is likely a main driver of increased national park visitation, according to one study"
Source: National Parks Traveler, 05/14/2026
"They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)"
"In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches and tree harvesters were whirring in an effort to restore a waterlogged, mosquito-infested ecosystem that was drained in the Soviet era. The reason is twofold: to help the climate and to defend the country from invasion."
Source: New York Times, 05/14/2026
