"Chart: Global Investment In Renewables Hits Record Even As US Falters"
"Globally, investors are pouring more money into renewable energy than ever — even as they pull back on spending in the U.S."
Source: Canary Media, 10/06/2025
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Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s
"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."
Source: AP, 10/06/2025"Advocates Raise Alarm Over PFAS Pollution From Datacenters Amid AI Boom"
"Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought"
"Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – PFAS “forever chemical” pollution.
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025Trump’s Hatred For Renewables Putting US Behind The Rest Of The World
"As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects"
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025"‘Dominant’: 32 Chunk Crowned Champion In ‘Biggest Fat Bear Week Yet’"
"After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”."
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025"White House To Slash $8B In Funding For Blue States"
"White House budget director Russ Vought on Wednesday said the Trump administration will cancel almost $8 billion in federal funding for green projects, directly targeting 16 states that did not vote for President Donald Trump in the presidential election."
Source: E&E News, 10/03/2025"Duke Energy Backs Off Renewables After North Carolina Cuts Climate Goal"
"The state repealed the utility’s 2030 emissions target in July. Duke’s response? A plan to slash solar and wind, double down on gas — and burn more coal."
Source: Canary Media, 10/03/2025"EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers"
"The Trump administration has begun prioritizing the review of new, potentially hazardous chemicals used in data centers that public health advocates and environmental attorneys warn could endanger workers, communities and the environment."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/03/2025EPA, EES Coke Battery $135 Million Apart Penalties As Pollution Trial Ends
"When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was “permitted to do so,” said Michael Hindelang, attorney for the utility and its subsidiaries that are defendants in the EPA’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the emissions."
Source: Planet Detroit, 10/03/2025EPA Ends Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to track emissions and form climate policy. Climate NGOs say their work could help plug some of the data gap, but they and other experts fear the EPA’s work can’t be fully matched."
Source: WIRED, 10/03/2025"Trump Coal Plan Includes Private Land Unlikely to be Mined"
"Nearly 85% of the 13.1 million acres the Trump administration is opening to coal leasing is private or state-owned and unlikely to be mined anytime soon, except for land adjacent to existing coal mines, analysts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/03/2025"The Resistance Rangers Want Your Help in Protecting National Parks"
"On March 1, under a clear sky, hundreds of people flocked to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park—not to picnic but to protest. Two weeks earlier, the National Park Service had fired roughly 1,000 employees."
Source: Sierra, 10/03/2025Federal Agents Shove Journalists At NYC Immigration Court, Hospitalizing One
"Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions."
Source: AP, 10/02/2025Despite Trump Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online
"Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/02/2025"Can A New Fund Give Tropical Forests A Future?"
"Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a $1 billion investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) to support forest conservation this week at a United Nations event in New York."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/02/2025
