"Top Interior Official Ensnared In Second Major Scandal"
"A top Interior Department official is under renewed scrutiny as growing ethics scandals engulf the powerful public lands agency."
Source: Public Domain, 05/14/2026
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"They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)"
"In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches and tree harvesters were whirring in an effort to restore a waterlogged, mosquito-infested ecosystem that was drained in the Soviet era. The reason is twofold: to help the climate and to defend the country from invasion."
Source: New York Times, 05/14/2026Media Visibility Likely A Main Driver Of Increased Park Visitation: Study
"Tourism-oriented messaging in the media is likely a main driver of increased national park visitation, according to one study"
Source: National Parks Traveler, 05/14/2026Groups Challenge NC Utilities Commission Chair’s Pause of Solar Projects
"Advocates for solar energy are asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to overturn an unusual order by its chairman directing Duke Energy to stop its 2026 solar procurement process."
Source: NC Newsline, 05/14/2026"Why Swedish Scientists Gave Salmon Cocaine"
"A recent study caught our eye: salmon on cocaine. Or really, researchers giving salmon cocaine…for science."
Source: NPR, 05/14/2026Red State AGs Want EPA To Censor Public Database About Chem Plant Hazards
"A group of 18 state attorneys general are pushing EPA to delete its public online database of chemical facilities, citing vulnerabilities to hackers or other security threats."
Source: E&E News, 05/13/2026Watchdog Sues Trump Interior Dept, Demanding Docs on Freedom 250 Funding
"“America’s 250th anniversary celebration is supposed to be an occasion for strengthening public trust in our democratic institutions,” said one advocate. “Freedom 250 is a privately managed slush fund.”"
Source: Common Dreams, 05/13/2026EPA Plan: Let Work Start On Data Centers, Power Plants Before Air Permits
"EPA on Monday proposed allowing data centers, power plants and other industrial facilities to begin certain construction work before obtaining required federal air permits."
Source: E&E News, 05/13/2026Musk's xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
"xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED. The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean Air Act by operating more than two dozen natural gas turbines at the site without appropriate air permits."
Source: WIRED, 05/13/2026Bayer’s Proposed Roundup Settlement Pays Lawyers, Snubs Plaintiffs: Critics
"A class action settlement proposed in the nationwide Roundup litigation would award $675 million to lawyers who negotiated the settlement, while plaintiffs suffering from cancer would receive, on average, $10,000 to $165,000 each, according to a new court filing in the case."
Source: The New Lede, 05/13/2026"Trump Reflecting Pool Paint Job Draws New Lawsuit Over Review"
"The Trump administration unlawfully began painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool basin blue without conducting the required consultations before altering a registered historic landmark, a new lawsuit alleged Monday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/13/2026"Can Trump's New FEMA Pick Save the Beleaguered Disaster Agency?"
"President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote a memo last spring laying out how to kill the disaster agency."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/13/2026"Marty Makary Out as FDA Commissioner"
"While running the FDA, Makary led efforts to get companies to ditch food dyes and was popular among followers of the MAHA movement."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/13/2026Wall St. Journal Got Subpoenas For Reporters’ Records in DOJ Leak Probe
"The Wall Street Journal received grand jury subpoenas for reporters’ records as part of a Justice Department leak investigation, as the outlet said that they would oppose the effort. The Journal reported Monday evening that the subpoenas, dated March 4, came after President Donald Trump complained about leaks tied to the war in Iran."
Source: Deadline, 05/13/2026"Can MAHA Change the Way Medical Schools Teach Nutrition?"
"In early March, in the lobby of the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood alongside medical leaders and other cabinet members to make an announcement. The administration had secured agreements with over 50 medical schools to provide at least 40 hours of nutrition education as part of a medical-school degree, Kennedy said—nearly a third of the roughly 160 accredited medical schools in the United States.
Source: Civil Eats, 05/13/2026
