Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina
"Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/05/2026
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Wildfire Destroys About 230 Homes In B.C. Indigenous Community
"A fast-moving wildfire destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada, officials said Tuesday, making it one of the country’s most destructive fires in recent years."
Source: AP, 08/05/2026CDC Now Finds Largest Known Cyclosporiasis Outbreak In 15 States
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding the largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states, adding six states where illnesses have been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, according to three individuals familiar with the investigation."
Source: Washington Post, 08/05/2026Crews Building Trump Border Wall In N.M. Ordered To Stop Drilling Wells
"Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought."
Source: Guardian, 08/05/2026UK Plastic ‘Waste Colonialism’ Found To Be Polluting Turkey’s Farms
"High levels of microplastics and other plastic contamination have been discovered in a waterway close to a major recycling hub in Turkey supplied with plastic waste by British companies."
Source: Guardian, 08/05/2026Louisiana Bets On Musk Rockets As Trump Targets Environmental Reviews
"Louisiana is striving to become the next hub for the growing commercial space industry. The Trump administration could sweeten the pot by removing environmental reviews."
Source: E&E News, 08/05/20265 Amazon Countries Arrest 100s In Crackdown On Environmental Crime
"Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals and thousands of livestock in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns on environmental crime ever carried out in the world’s largest rainforest."
Source: AP, 08/05/2026DiCaprio And Bezos Lead $200M Project To Save 100 Threatened Species
"Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas."
Source: AP, 08/05/2026Latin American News Startup: ‘The Most Accurate Truth’
"After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 08/05/2026Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Line 5 Permit
"Michigan’s highest court has ordered state energy regulators to redo their environmental review of Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac."
Source: E&E News, 08/04/2026Trump DOJ Bids To Block Public From Suing To Enforce Environmental Laws
"Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens to enforce them through the courts when the government does not act to address the problem."
Source: The Conversation, 08/04/2026Trump OSHA Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections
"Republicans in Washington are taking steps to roll back federal workplace heat protections as summer temperatures surge."
Source: New York Times, 08/04/2026Senate Panel Releases Stopgap Bill With Disaster, Environment Funds
"The stopgap includes extenders and authorizations for a number of environmental and infrastructure programs but leaves out special funding the White House had requested for national parks operations, wildfire management and disaster recovery in North Carolina."
Source: E&E News, 08/04/2026Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement
"Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout."
Source: Politico, 08/04/2026EPA Says It Wants “PFAS Out,” But Its Actions Allow More Of Them In
"Less than three months ago, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jess Kramer outlined a series of promises dubbed “PFAS OUT,” aimed at eliminating a family of toxic compounds from drinking water, and touted the Trump administration’s wider commitments to protecting Americans from contamination by the chemicals."
Source: The New Lede, 08/04/2026
