Trump Lifts Summer Gasoline Restrictions Early As Prices Remain Stubborn
"The Trump administration is ending summertime smog restrictions on gasoline early this year in a bid to offer relief for high prices at the pump."
Source: The Hill, 08/21/2026
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How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Environmental Policies
"The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state’s efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels."
Source: New York Times, 08/21/2026
Great Waste In The Great Lakes: Plastic Pollution Is Clogging Our Waters
"More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Each glass of treated lake water is laden with tiny bits of plastic — microplastics — made of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases. Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 08/21/2026
Governors’ Races Increasingly Buffeted By Toxic Politics Of Data Centers
"More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths that tech giants and developers are building to fuel artificial intelligence products and cloud computing. The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds."
Source: AP, 08/21/2026
Fish And Wildlife Service Pauses Plan To Change Wetlands Policy
"The Trump administration has hit the brakes on its plan to roll back a Fish and Wildlife Service wetland conservation policy following pushback from prominent Republicans and tens of thousands of duck hunters."
Source: E&E News, 08/21/2026
How Florida Quietly Removed Climate Change Content From Textbooks
"Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards"
Source: Hechinger Report, 08/21/2026
Trump Selects Dr. Heidi Overton, White House Aide, To Lead FDA
"President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will nominate Heidi Overton, a top aide at the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, to serve as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration."
Source: Washington Post, 08/21/2026
Marine Minerals and the Media: An EJN Webinar for Journalists on Deep-Sea Mining
How can journalists cover this industry accurately and thoroughly as it gains momentum? Speakers will shed light on the murky world of deep sea mining, drawing from their experience in science communication, deep sea ecology, ocean policy, the human-ocean relationship and more.
Florida Jellyfish Museum All About The Mesmerizing Floating Predators
"The floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on the walls and the glowing light from the saltwater tanks."
Source: AP, 08/20/2026
US To Send Hospital Ship To Peru As El Nino Threat Looms
"The United States will send a military hospital ship to Peru’s Pacific coast next year to help Peru cope with the effects of the El Nino climate phenomenon as part of a broader collaboration with the South American country, U.S. Ambassador to Peru Bernie Navarro announced Wednesday."
Source: AP, 08/20/2026
