"Oil and gas companies are running out of options for disposing of polluted water they generate every day, a problem for the Trump administration’s “energy dominance” agenda. EPA is offering the industry a hand by promoting reuse of that wastewater. The effort worries environmentalists, but it could draw crucial political allies in oil-producing states."
"Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said late Saturday that he had dropped his contentious plan to sell millions of acres of public lands from the sweeping domestic policy package that the Senate will soon begin debating."
"Almost a third of all of Tuvalu’s residents have put in requests for the first batch of climate visas from Australia, as scientists fear the Pacific nation will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years."
"Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday."
"The US Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down on efforts to decrease a backlog of new pesticide active ingredients waiting for EPA approval to enter the marketplace. Since April, the agency has proposed registering four of them—cyclobutrifluram, diflufenican, isocycloseram, and trifludimoxazin."
"Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076."
"On the day the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the national forest roadless rule, the Senate parliamentarian said a proposal to sell millions of acres of public lands cannot go through without 60 votes in the chamber."
Lead-contaminated drinking water has long been a widespread worry, but one big challenge has been locating the many lead service lines around the United States. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points you to a mappable database to help address that problem, with current, detailed data filtered through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Learn more about this resource and how to best use it.
"A contentious, years-long fight over a proposed mine next to one of the South’s last truly wild places ended abruptly Friday, when a nonprofit group announced it would spend nearly $60 million to acquire thousands of acres of land near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in rural Georgia."
"After months of negotiations, Senate Republicans are gearing up for a potential vote next week on Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill. It will be a major test for Republican Leader John Thune and Trump’s own hold on the upper chamber that aides say will be cast as a binary choice for the rank-and-file: you either are with the president or you aren’t."
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