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"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees."
"The sprawling bill, which has divided Democrats, would overhaul major environmental laws to streamline the permitting process."
"The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to continue construction of a wall along the southern border in the Big Bend region of southwest Texas, including within a national park. The decision by the court, which was unsigned, allows the administration to resume its efforts to erect barriers and put up surveillance equipment along a 500-mile stretch of the U.S. border with Mexico as a lower court battle over the project’s legality continues. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted a dissent."
"A federal appeals court dealt a setback to California's desire to enforce first-of-its-kind climate disclosure laws, blocking the state from requiring large companies to disclose climate-related financial risks and "indirect" greenhouse gas emissions. Monday's decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is a partial victory for the US Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau Federation and several California business groups that sued to block the two state laws."
"Idaho officials paid hunters thousands of dollars for killing a dozen newborn wolf pups this spring, including what appears to be at least one full litter killed in or near its den, according to state records shared with the Guardian and Public Domain." "Wildlife advocates incensed as documents show state paid out $2,000 per kill in effort to shrink state’s wolf population."
"Exposure to a new generation of allegedly “safe” plasticizers is linked to lower birth weight and fetal development complications, which could cause serious health problems later in life, a new peer-reviewed study found."
"The Agriculture Department is set to tighten eligibility requirements for the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative in a change that is expected to render millions of additional Americans ineligible for the program." "The Agriculture Department is reviving a plan that will require low-income people to take additional steps to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program."
"Senator Lisa Murkowski plans to become the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee in the next Congress, an aide said Monday." "The Alaska Republican could elevate energy and environment measures as a leader on the powerful committee."
"State leaders and residents in Virginia have opposed NextEra’s acquisition of Dominion Energy, fearing that it will accelerate rate increases."
"A $100 million plan to turn a wellness movement into a Republican turnout machine collapsed into canceled rallies and unfunded candidates."
"The war in Iran has been very good for renewable energy. More than 40 countries have started or accelerated projects involving wind, solar, electric and other low carbon technologies." ... But the pivot to clean energy is only part of the story. The disruption of a once reliable trade of oil and gas in the Middle East has caused much of the world to double down on fossil fuels in a desperate scramble for secure, and immediate, supplies.
"As heads of state and delegates from nearly every nation make their way on Monday to Antalya, Turkey, for the United Nations climate talks, one question hangs over the event: Will it matter?"
"The lapse in upkeep comes at a time of reduced staffing and as Trump pursues projects in the nation’s capital, including overhauling East Potomac Golf Links."
"The number of measles cases reported in 2026 is the highest in 35 years, with cases reported in 45 states and D.C."
"As Democrats flipped state and federal seats, farm runoff and cancer concerns infiltrated nearly every race."
