"Judge Orders New York To Follow Through On Its Climate Law"
"The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found."
Source: New York Focus, 10/30/2025
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Why Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Keep Ending up in Philadelphia Waters
"Some 280 years after a river-swimming Benjamin Franklin petitioned to curb water pollution here, the city is still struggling to meet the challenge, according to water advocates who assembled along the banks of one of its two main rivers on Monday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/30/2025"100 Countries Stall On Climate Targets Ahead Of COP30"
"Dozens of nations have failed to strengthen their climate targets — a requirement of the Paris Agreement — as they race toward global negotiations next month with planet-warming pollution on the rise."
Source: E&E News, 10/29/2025Trump Fires Arts Commission Expected To Review His Construction Projects
"The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Donald Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington."
Source: Washington Post, 10/29/2025"Park Air Monitoring Networks Suffer Under Shutdown, Trump Cuts"
"The complex web of air monitoring networks in the nation’s national parks is bogged down under the government shutdown, widening weak spots in an already underfunded and overstretched network."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/29/2025"The Amazon Rainforest's Fossil Fuel Rush"
"South America's vulnerable Amazon rainforest region is a rising frontier for oil and gas drilling."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/29/2025"Critics Decry Company Created To Rush Power To Indiana Data Centers"
"Northern Indiana Public Service Co. says the spinoff is needed to meet surging power demand. Others say it’s an excuse to bypass regulations that protect consumers."
Source: Canary Media, 10/29/2025EPA Pushes Asheboro, N.C., To Control Toxic Discharges Into Drinking Supply
"The EPA wants the city of 28,000 to rein in an industrial solvent, 1,4-Dioxane, from its wastewater discharges. So far, Asheboro has refused."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/29/2025"An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is promising to erase a scientific finding that underpins climate regulations nationwide. But some business leaders said they are wary that the move could lead to a costly legal quagmire." "Some carmakers and energy executives say the plan would trigger costly litigation and spur individual states to create a patchwork of tighter rules."
Source: NYTimes, 10/28/2025"Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Faces Fierce Opposition In Congress"
"Lawmakers are girding for a fight against President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to open up the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines to offshore drilling." "Most coastal Republicans and Democrats said they wouldn’t back drilling off their states’ shores."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2025"Ranchers Agreed To Leave A National Park. Then RFK Jr. Got Involved."
"POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, California — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a wellness influencer and a pioneering dairy farmer joined forces earlier this year to upend a landmark deal that stopped most cattle operations at this park north of San Francisco."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2025"Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws"
"The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights."
Source: NYTimes, 10/28/2025Trump, GOP Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts
"Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/28/2025"Six Ways the COP30 Climate Summit Can Succeed or Fail"
"In a month’s time, nearly 200 countries will gather at the gates of the Amazon rainforest for a new round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. But there is still intense discussion about what the main outcome ought to be."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/27/2025"Trump Makes Laura Swett FERC Chair. What Will Be Her Focus?"
"President Donald Trump on Thursday designated Laura Swett chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, marking the agency’s third leadership change in nine months."
Source: E&E News, 10/27/2025
