A Solar-Powered Rubbish-Eating Boat? It Chomps Plastic Waste At Sea
"Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river"
Source: Guardian, 06/16/2026
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"Trump Opens Protected Pacific Waters To Commercial Fishing"
"The Trump administration struck down prohibitions on commercial fishing Thursday across more than 500,000 square miles of marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean, as environmental groups vowed to challenge the action in federal court." "The president has now signed orders to eliminate commercial fishing bans in all five national marine monuments."
Source: E&E News, 06/15/2026Trump NPS Ordered To Restore History, Climate Info Removed From Parks
"A federal judge Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to restore interpretative materials pertaining to history and climate change removed from national parks under President Donald Trump’s order.
Source: National Parks Traveler, 06/15/2026EPA Sends California Emissions Rules To Congress, Hoping For Reversal
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it was sending the Republican-controlled Congress landmark California vehicle emissions rules for potential repeal, its latest effort to prevent tougher state tailpipe requirements."
Source: Reuters, 06/15/2026"Another Industry-Led Campaign Targets California’s Animal Welfare Law"
"Several newspapers across farming states have run strikingly similar opinion columns over the past month that take issue with a California law requiring farmers to provide hogs, calves and chickens with enough room to turn around, lie down and stretch."
Source: The New Lede, 06/15/2026Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants: Judge
"The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume administering it."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/15/2026"Solar Beat Coal On The US Grid In May — A New Milestone"
"The U.S. just hit a big milestone: It got more power from solar panels than from coal plants in May."
Source: Canary Media, 06/15/2026‘Flamingo Revolution’ Opposes Kushner Resort On Protected Albanian Delta
"In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators felled coastal pine trees, flattened sand dunes, and cut new roads through previously untouched habitat." "The incursion was the realization of a luxury resort development backed by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law."
Source: Mongabay, 06/15/2026Trump Attacks Forest And Wildfire Research Just As West Is Poised To Burn
"Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington."
Source: NPR, 06/15/2026Rebuilding To Endure
"In the days after Hurricane Helene devastated the southern Appalachians in late September 2024, Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Tracy Swartout went up in a helicopter to survey the damage. What she saw was deeply troubling. 'When Helene happened, we ended up with 58 landslides spread across 200 linear miles of the parkway,' Swartout says."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 06/15/2026Patagonia Is Suing Pattie Gonia, Drag Queen With Environmental Message
"Days before the beginning of Pride Month in June, a glamorous drag queen with long, wavy red hair, a matching mustache and carabiner earrings stared into a camera and levied a strong accusation against a famous sustainable outdoors apparel brand: "This is a corporation trying to erase an activist."
Source: AP, 06/15/2026El Niño Is Here, And It’s Developing Earlier And Faster Than Many Do
"El Niño has developed in the Pacific Ocean, a climate pattern that can reshape weather around the globe into 2027. The last El Niño was in 2023-24, and forecasters say this one is developing earlier than many typically do."
Source: AccuWeather, 06/12/2026"Oceans Are Warming, But Scientists Are Concerned About This Cold Blob"
"If the blob persists for years, it could eventually cool the climate around Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe."
Source: Washington Post, 06/12/2026"Workers at Washington Paper Mill Died of Chemical Burns"
"Ten of the 11 plant workers killed at a Longview, Wash., paper mill last month died from alkaline chemical burns, the result of caustic liquid that flooded out of a failed holding tank and through the plant."
Source: New York Times, 06/12/2026Clergy Across New Jersey Urge Lawmakers To Pass Climate Superfund Act
"More than 230 clergy and faith leaders representing congregations and faith communities across all 21 New Jersey counties are urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would require major fossil fuel companies to help pay for climate-related damage and infrastructure costs."
Source: NJ Vindicator, 06/12/2026
