Trump DOI To Pay 2 More Companies To Walk Away From Offshore Wind Leases
"The Trump administration announced two more payouts Monday for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development."
Source: AP, 04/28/2026
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"Shrunken Offshore Energy Regulator Faces An Outsize Challenge"
"A new agency for offshore energy development that’s seen its workforce shrink in recent years — and is targeted for funding cuts next year by the Trump administration — will be taking on a quickly growing portfolio of responsibilities."
Source: E&E News, 04/28/2026"ICE Planning Facility For Children And Families On Pfas-Contaminated Site"
"Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program."
Source: Guardian, 04/28/2026"A Town Of 7,000 Planned So Many Data Centers, It’s Like Adding 51 Walmarts"
"Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back."
Source: Washington Post, 04/28/2026"EPA’s Zeldin Tangles With Democrats Over Trump’s Budget Request"
"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wrestled with House Democrats on Monday in a hostile hearing that culminated in the top Democratic appropriator facetiously suggesting the agency chief drink weed killer."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/28/2026"French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate"
"The new investigation by DeSmog and Politico found boutique Paris-based PR firm Digital Tellers is linked to a web of connected Facebook groups and accounts, which regularly share false claims about the cost, noise and reliability of heat pumps."
Source: DeSmog, 04/28/2026As UN Climate Talks Falter, a Smaller Coalition Eyes Fossil Fuel Exit
"More than 50 countries will gather in Colombia to try to develop real-world timetables to phase out oil and gas amid global energy shocks and petrostate stalling."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/27/2026Trump Fires All 24 Members of National Science Foundation’s Governing Body
"U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency."
Source: Science, 04/27/2026Texas Gulf Coast Health Problem: Benzene Emissions Are Among Highest in US
"Daylight hadn’t yet slipped from the sky above Port Arthur when the residents felt the ground shake. They quickly moved inside, shut windows and closed doors, sheltering in place until they got word that the explosion at the Valero Port Arthur Refinery was under control."
Source: Capital & Main, 04/27/2026Will Changes to US Forest Service Erase a Century of Historical Documents?
"Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s forests could result in the loss of more than a century of critical historical documents, conservationists warn."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/27/2026Major Livestock and Dairy Firms Make Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping
"A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/24/2026Gas-Fired Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
"A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year."
Source: WIRED, 04/24/2026Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Dept. Budget Irk Senate Dems
"Although the department’s overall budget will increase in 2027, the amounts dedicated to environmental management, research and renewable energy infrastructure face significant hits."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/24/2026Waste-To-Energy Plant Proposed For Vuda Point In Fiji Sparks Fierce Backlash
"A proposed waste-to-energy facility in Fiji has been labelled as "waste colonialism" by opponents of the plant. The $900 million venture, backed by Australian billionaire Ian Malouf, would burn hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year at a site built near a popular tourist destination."
Source: Australian ABC, 04/24/2026"Republicans Had an Earth Day Plan to Limit Species Protections. It Flopped."
"House Republicans had big plans for Earth Day this year: They would pass a bill to narrow protections for endangered species that they had long seen as federal overreach. It didn’t work out that way."
Source: NYTimes, 04/24/2026
