Iran War Unites Americans In Aggravation Over Sticker Shock At Gas Pump
"Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy."
Source: AP, 03/11/2026
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North Carolina Complaint System For Factory Farms Doesn't Work Very Well
"Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/11/2026Amid Cuts to Fish & Wildlife Service, Species Like Florida Panther Languish
"Florida conservation groups say they plan to sue after the federal government greenlit another development that threatens the habitat of the panther, the official state animal."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/11/2026Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement, But Data Tells a Different Story
"The EPA released its latest enforcement and compliance report and touted the agency’s crackdown on environmental crimes under the Trump administration, yet 75 percent of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before the president took office."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/11/2026"Trump Administration Again Sued Over Alaska Public Lands 'Giveaway'"
"A coalition of organizations has again sued the Trump administration for its 'giveaway' of federal lands in Alaska for industrial purposes. At issue are the steps the administration has taken to allow a 211-mile-long road across a pristine stretch of the state, passing through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and crossing the Kobuk Wild River, to access the site of a proposed copper mine."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 03/11/2026"Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands"
"Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system."
Source: NYTimes, 03/10/2026After Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe
"Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months and to fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, trigger a surge in gasoline prices and result in an “economic disaster” without precedent, former officials said."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/10/2026"Sewer Limits Force Development Moratorium In Baltimore Suburbs"
"A portion of Baltimore’s suburbs, including the region’s busy airport, has been put under a growth moratorium to control the threat of more wet-weather sewage overflows into the Patapsco River. The stoppage could potentially last for years."
Source: Bay Journal, 03/10/2026"Judge Rules Kari Lake Unlawfully Ran US Media Agency, Voiding Mass Layoffs"
"A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass layoffs and other actions taken during that period to dismantle the agency."
Source: Guardian, 03/10/2026"After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations"
"In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state’s petrochemical industry."
Source: Capital & Main, 03/09/2026‘Fundamental Conflict’: Ethics Holds On Trump EPA Chemicals Officials Lift
"A host of agency appointees will be free to reconnect with past industry clients on upcoming consequential regulatory matters."
Source: E&E News, 03/09/2026Tackling Air Pollution Should Be Part Of War On Cancer Rates: Scientists
"Cutting air pollution should form part of government strategies to reduce cancer rates, the European Code Against Cancer has recommended."
Source: Guardian, 03/09/2026"A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War."
"Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition."
Source: NYTimes, 03/09/2026EPA Staffing Hits 40-Year Low As Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts
"The EPA lost more than 4,000 employees in the first year of Trump’s second term, bringing its staffing down to a total of 12,849—a level not seen since the Reagan administration. That represents a reduction of 24 percent, more than double the rate of losses across the entire federal workforce."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/09/2026Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet, Without Much Proof
"A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all."
Source: WIRED, 03/09/2026
