"California Supreme Court Hands Victory To Rooftop Solar Panel Owners"
"Justices told a lower court to revisit their decision to uphold cuts of 75 percent to payments for solar panel owners."
Source: CalMatters, 08/12/2025
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"Trump Cracks Down on Bird Deaths, but Only From Wind Turbines"
"Bald eagles must be protected to the fullest extent of the law from dangerous wind turbines, President Trump’s interior secretary declared this week. But four months ago, President Trump called for gutting the very law that applies, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, calling it a burden on oil and gas producers."
Source: NYTimes, 08/12/2025"Weather Tracker: Europe Braces For Another Heatwave With Highs Of 44C"
"After a period of cooler weather, swaths of central and eastern Europe face another heatwave as hot air over south-western Europe pushes north-west."
Source: Guardian, 08/12/2025"Tribes, NARF Join Legal Fight To Protect Chuckwalla National Monument"
"A coalition of tribes and the Native American Rights Fund jumped Monday into the legal battle to protect the Chuckwalla National Monument in southern California that President Joe Biden created during his last month in office. Tribes led a long fight to see the monument established."
Source: ICT, 08/12/2025"Record Krill Catch Prompts Early End to Fishing Season in Antarctica"
"Antarctica’s krill fishery has shut down months ahead of schedule after reaching its full seasonal catch-limit—a historic first. The early closure is fueling urgent calls to protect the Southern Ocean’s fragile marine ecosystems from mounting industrial fishing and climate change."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/12/2025Startup Promised 45,000 EV Jobs To Struggling Towns. They’re Still Waiting
"Desperate for jobs, three communities embraced a bold electric vehicle promise. Now, they’re left with questions—and no jobs."
Source: Floodlight, 08/12/2025Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill State’s Wildfire Risk Map
"This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact."
Source: ProPublica, 08/12/2025"The Anti-Sunscreen Movement And What To Know About Its Claims"
"A growing anti-sunscreen movement on social media is causing concern among dermatologists, who warn that avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks."
Source: Washington Post, 08/12/2025"Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump"
"The Trump administration has filed far fewer civil cases accusing companies of violating environmental rules than its predecessors, an analysis of federal data shows."
Source: NYTimes, 08/11/2025"Popular E.P.A. Database Is in Limbo Amid Science Cuts"
"The Environmental Protection Agency said it would stop updating research that hundreds of companies use to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions after the agency suspended the database’s creator because he had signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s approach to scientific research."
Source: NYTimes, 08/11/2025"Far More Environmental Data Is Being Deleted In Trump's Second Term"
"The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did, and those changes are bolder, according to a report published by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)."
Source: NPR, 08/11/2025Records Contradict What FEMA Leader Told Congress About Texas Flood Response
"In the week after floods tore through Texas Hill Country, most survivors were unable to get through to a federal aid hotline because the Department of Homeland Security let funding lapse, according to publicly available contract records and internal FEMA call center logs obtained by NPR."
Source: NPR, 08/11/2025Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among Poorest
"Though 60 miles (100km) apart, the Brazilian municipalities of Presidente Kennedy in Espírito Santo state and Campos dos Goytacazes in Rio de Janeiro state have one big thing in common: oil. Since late in the last century, their public funds have been bolstered by billions in royalties from oil finds in the offshore Campos Basin. Yet despite having significantly more resources than other towns and cities in Brazil, both still face problems such as poor sanitation and healthcare, inadequate social housing and state education as well as corruption scandals.
Source: Agência Pública, 08/11/2025"The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River"
"More than 40 years after the Passaic River was declared a Superfund site, cancer-causing toxins still line its bottom. While residents drink from its waters, cleanup stalls under corporate resistance and potential federal budget cuts."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/11/2025Commercial Fishing In Vast Pacific Reserve Halted As Judge Blocks Trump Order
"Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections."
Source: AP, 08/11/2025
