"The West’s Data Centers Suck (Water And Power)"
"From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies."
Source: High Country News, 07/31/2025
Search results
"4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment"
"In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system."
Source: New Yorker, 07/31/2025
Resignation of Nuclear Regulator Seen as an Attack on Agency Independence
"NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo “apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics.”"
"A top official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is resigning from her post amid the Trump administration’s attempts to overhaul atomic energy rules and chip away at the agency’s independence.
Source: Mother Jones, 07/31/2025
"Trump Yanks Millions of Acres of Ocean Designated for Wind Power"
"The Trump administration is revoking approval for millions of acres of ocean to be set aside for offshore wind development amid an escalating attack on the renewable power source."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/31/2025
EPA Climate Rollback Based On Document Authored By 5 Climate Contrarians
"In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced." "The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change."
Source: CNN, 07/31/2025
Lapses in Enforcement by Trump's EPA May Yield Local Environment Stories
Enforcement has usually been serious business at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Now it seems many pollution laws are going unpoliced. TipSheet explains how the EPA’s own resources can help investigative reporters find violations, track regulatory actions and uncover nationwide patterns of corporate mismanagement.
Volunteer To Support SEJ’s Awards for Reporting on the Environment!
Help recognize and amplify excellence in environmental journalism by volunteering as a screener or judge for the annual SEJ Awards honoring the best environmental reporting across 10 categories, highlighting original, impactful and skillfully reported stories on the most urgent environmental issues of our time.
Lawmakers Could End Plan To Shoot 450,000 Owls — To Save A Different Owl
"Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including conservatives. Now lawmakers could kill the plan."
Source: LA Times, 07/30/2025
Suit Claims Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater
"Coosa Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Power, alleging significant groundwater pollution violations from the utility’s Gadsden coal ash pond that has been capped in place since 2018."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/30/2025
Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling
"More than 170 countries have gathered to save critical ecosystems. But the U.S. is a no-show and Russia said it will withdraw from the wetlands treaty."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/30/2025
