"Water Rule Rollback Stokes Affordability Concerns"
"The Trump administration says the regulation will ease permitting expenses. Utilities say costs could shift to them and their customers."
Source: E&E News, 01/23/2026
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Congress Has Doubts About Trump Admin’s New Wildfire Management Plans
"Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior Department is still forging ahead."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/23/2026Interpol-Backed Police Arrest Nearly 200 In Amazon Region Gold Mining Sweep
"Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday."
Source: AP, 01/23/2026Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where Civil War Began
"The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed."
Source: NYTimes, 01/23/2026‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Storm Forecast From Texas To The Carolinas
"With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads, trees and power lines with devastating ice across a wide expanse of the South."
Source: AP, 01/22/2026"Judge Blocks Government From Searching Data Seized From Post Reporter"
"Government officials may not examine electronic devices seized from a Washington Post reporter until litigation stemming from the search of her home is settled, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 01/22/2026Congress OKd Billions For EV Chargers. Four Years Later, Only 2% Is Spent.
"States have spent only 2 percent of the billions of dollars that the federal government set aside four years ago to build electric vehicle charging stations on U.S. highways." "President Donald Trump’s spending freeze added a speed bump to the slow rollout of a Biden program to build a nationwide network of EV chargers."
Source: E&E News, 01/22/2026Five Face Trial In Peru Over The Killing Of An Amazon Defender
"The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in one of the world’s most dangerous regions for environmental defenders."
Source: AP, 01/22/2026"Sales of Antibiotics for Farm Animals Spiked in 2024"
"Though a direct cause is unknown, the jump renews concerns over antibiotic resistance and cuts to the federal agencies that work to reduce it."
Source: Civil Eats, 01/22/2026"House Public Lands Caucus Fails Test With Boundary Waters Vote"
"The House of Representatives voted 214 to 208 Wednesday to open up hundreds of thousands of federal acres to mining near the border of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness."
Source: Public Domain, 01/22/2026"Bureau of Land Management Revokes American Prairie Bison Leases"
"The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking grazing permits in Phillips County [Montana] that American Prairie had been using to sustain its herd of bison."
Source: Montana Free Press, 01/22/2026"Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies"
"As fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise to record levels, a new analysis shows that a majority of these emissions can be traced back to a shrinking number of large corporate entities."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/22/2026"The Toxic Chemistry Behind Skin Bleaching Products"
"The global skin-lightening market is worth over $10 billion and growing, but the unregulated products driving it contain dangerous chemicals linked to serious health risks."
Source: Chemistry World, 01/22/2026Researchers Find Problem As Penguins Breed Sooner In Warming Antarctic
"Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that’s a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study said."
Source: AP, 01/22/2026Calif. Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow
"The real estate website scrubbed the data under pressure from California’s real estate brokers and agents who were concerned about its impact on home prices. Neil Matouka thinks prospective buyers have a right to know."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/21/2026
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