Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking
"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025
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"Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant"
"Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun County."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025Groups Sue EPA Over Canceled $7 Billion Solar Program To Help Poor People
"Several groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans."
Source: AP, 10/08/2025EPA Drops Planned Delay in Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants
"Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025Solar And Wind Power Grew Faster Than Electricity Demand This Year: Report
"Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis."
Source: AP, 10/08/2025"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report"
"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."
Source: Washington Post, 10/07/2025"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires"
"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/07/2025Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem
"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."
Source: Allegheny Front, 10/07/2025"Outcry As Trump Plots More Roads And Logging In US Forests"
"Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment"
Source: Guardian, 10/07/2025"Appeal Seeks To Force Factory Farms To Disclose Hazardous Air Emissions"
"A coalition of food, environmental and animal welfare groups is appealing a recent federal court decision that upheld a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule exempting factory farms from publicly disclosing hazardous air emissions information."
Source: The New Lede, 10/07/2025"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish"
"When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists."
Source: Science, 10/07/2025How We Probed A Maze Of Websites To Tally Brazilian Shark Meat Orders
"A recent Mongabay investigation found widespread government purchases of shark meat in Brazil to serve in thousands of public institutions." "As part of the research, we spent months combing through dozens of websites where Brazilian government agencies are legally required to publish their procurement records."
Source: Mongabay, 10/07/2025"RCFP Calls DHS Actions Against Journalists ‘Disturbing,’ Seeks Meeting"
"The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is requesting a meeting with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to discuss several incidents in which federal agents have arrested and used force against journalists."
Source: Reporters Committee, 10/07/2025"Youth-Led US Climate Activists Widen Focus To Fight Authoritarianism"
"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025"The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights"
"A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/06/2025
