Principal Saved 900 Students Before His School Was Washed Away in Nepal
"Rajendra Dawadi had less than 15 minutes to act on a warning of approaching floodwaters. His swift evacuation plan saved hundreds of lives."
Source: New York Times, 09/01/2026
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal Won't Lower Your Gas Prices. What You Need To Know
"The Trump administration announced an agreement with the Venezuelan government on Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves.
The U.S. government says it is entering into a joint venture with a private Venezuelan company, according to an official who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the deal. The Trump administration says the U.S. would get 55% of the oil from the joint venture. That's equivalent to about 65 billion barrels of oil that's under the ground.
Source: NPR, 09/01/2026Trump’s EPA on a Mission to Ease Air Rules by 2028: Explained
"The EPA still has unfinished business on a handful of major air rules, which environmentalists fear will endanger Americans’ health and worsen the climate crisis."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/01/2026Yellowstone Park, Montana Continue Easing Fishing Restrictions
"Yellowstone National Park and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks have announced the easing of fishing restrictions on rivers as water temperatures drop."
Source: States Newsroom, 09/01/2026Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
"A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim."
Source: New York Times, 09/01/2026Trump Is Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer."
Source: NOTUS, 08/31/2026‘A New Form of US Colonialism’: Venezuelans Bristle at US Oil Takeover
"Many Venezuelans suspected that there was going to be a price to pay for President Trump’s brazen capture of their autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, who was arrested by U.S. forces in January. On Friday, that cost became clear when Mr. Trump announced that the U.S. would be taking majority control of a vast part of Venezuela’s oil reserves — national resources long considered by many in the country to be a birthright."
Source: New York Times, 08/31/2026$900 Million From A Canceled Wind Deal Will Benefit A Trump Donor
"The Trump administration’s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects and boost fossil fuel energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of the president’s million-dollar donors."
Source: Washington Post, 08/31/2026Top Trump Honcho Asked For More Planes To Fight Fire Near His Idaho Ranch
"Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest, according to two Forest Service officials familiar with the matter."
Source: Washington Post, 08/31/2026Trump Administration Proposes Changes To Biden-Era Climate Report
"The Tr ump administration is looking to change a portion of a 2023 federal climate report." "The administration proposed to reframe how the Fifth National Climate Assessment sees its worst-case scenarios after U.N. scientists said earlier this year that a worst-case scenario was not plausible."
Source: The Hill, 08/31/2026Trump DOT Moves To Relax Fuel Efficiency Standards For Commercial Trucks
"The Trump administration on Friday moved to relax fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks."
Source: The Hill, 08/31/2026Menhaden Board Advances Potential Cuts To Chesapeake Bay Fishery Limits
"The regional board overseeing menhaden management along the Atlantic coast on Wednesday advanced a measure to implement new restrictions on Virginia’s only reduction fishery that harvests the oily forage fish within the Chesapeake Bay."
Source: Virginia Mercury, 08/31/2026First Nations Want Emergency Order To Protect Southern Mountain Caribou
"Southern mountain caribou are a type of caribou found in mature forests of western Canada, where they subsist on lichen as a winter food. Habitat loss — primarily driven by logging — has transformed their mature forest habitat, upsetting the predator-prey balance and leading to caribou declines."
Source: Mongabay, 08/31/2026More Dangerous, Drug-Resistant Salmonella Rising In US Poultry
"Amid a busy season of summer food recalls and illnesses, sustainable farming advocates are warning that salmonella bacteria found in poultry is increasing strains most likely to cause illness, hospitalization and death, and that such bacteria are also increasingly resistant to antibiotic medicine."
Source: The New Lede, 08/31/2026Burning Man Begins This Week As Hawk Fire Reaches 95% Containment
"Around 70,000 are expected be at the Nevada desert festival, with it urging attendees to treat “everyone affected by this emergency with patience and care.”"
Source: Washington Post, 08/31/2026
