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Intensely red sunset over ocean

Humans are altering the seas. Here’s what the future ocean might look like

Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research.

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white plastic pellets (nurdles) washed up on sand

Pennsylvania plastics pollution settlement could set a national precedent for control of pellets

The case is the first citizen suit to successfully settle over “nurdles” in an inland waterway. State regulators weighed in to help.

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Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas NV set against a blue sky.

Don Jr. and Eric Trump are investors in a crypto company that calls climate change a threat

A new crypto venture whose largest shareholders include President Donald Trump’s sons disclosed to investors that rising temperatures “pose a threat” to its operations, in contrast to the family’s rejections of climate change.

www.eenews.net
Aerial photo of coal-fired power plant

A judge dismissed the James M. Gavin power plant’s lawsuit challenging EPA rules on toxic waste disposal

Regulators say a coal-fired power plant in southeast Ohio did not comply with federal rules on the safe storage of toxic waste, putting groundwater at risk of contamination. Last week, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit.

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Illustration depicting pumpjacks vs solar panels & wind turbines

Coal is rising along with solar in the U.S. power system, while gas loses a step

Power plant owners responded to high gas prices by burning more coal in the first half of this year.

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Theater marquis reading "LIVE NATION PRESENTS JOE ROGAN SOLD OUT"

Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong

Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show.

www.theguardian.com
a bunch of houses that have been destroyed by a tornado.

Inside Trump’s unorthodox climate attacks in courts nationwide

The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage.
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Smoke emitted from an industrial facility next to a body of water during sunset.

Can we just bury our climate pollution underground?

Carbon storage is becoming a more mainstream climate solution. But a new study says that we won’t have enough room to bury all our CO2.

www.washingtonpost.com
United States Environmental Protection Agency

Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight

The court said the claims must be brought before a special court that handles contract disputes involving the federal government.

www.politico.com
Hydraulic fracturing wells burning off methane

Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New data shows massive emissions from Texas wells.

Texas regulators rejected just 53 out of more than 12,000 applications from oil companies looking to burn off natural gas in the study period.

www.propublica.org
Pipes snaking toward a power plant at sunset

As Trump champions LNG exports, Pennsylvania activists fight proposed Delaware River terminal

A proposed $7 billion liquefied natural gas terminal near Chester and Eddystone has sparked fierce local opposition over explosion risks and added pollution in long-burdened communities, even as the Trump administration accelerates LNG exports and rolls back environmental rules.

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Coal energy plant

‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape.

www.theguardian.com
Smiling people with signs marching in support of science.

Dozens of scientists call DOE climate report ‘fundamentally incorrect’

The review comes as the Trump administration is leaning on the report as part of its justification to end EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.

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lush green fields beneath Mountain in Indonesia

In Indonesia’s rainforest, a mega-farm project is plowing ahead

The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms.

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A power plant with silver towers, pipes and industrial equipment

‘Enough devastation:’ Mingo, Logan residents worry about proposed power plants, data centers in WV

Residents in Mingo and Logan counties are voicing concerns about the health, environmental, and water impacts of the massive Adams Fork Energy project, which includes methane power plants, data centers, and the world’s largest natural gas-fueled ammonia plant.

westvirginiawatch.com
Young Indonesian girl lying on the couch looking into the camera

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

A Chinese-backed coal power plant in Bengkulu, Indonesia, faces community backlash as residents report widespread respiratory disease among children and damage to coastal ecosystems, despite repeated environmental sanctions.

news.mongabay.com
A cement mixer truck sits on a construction site.

Cement manufacturers want to go green. Trump is blocking them

Amid fierce global competition to dominate the cement industry’s future, Trump’s gutting of climate incentives puts plants in GOP strongholds in a bind.
www.washingtonpost.com
girl recycling plastic bottle

Exxon and California spar in dueling lawsuits over plastics

The oil giant accused the state’s attorney general and four nonprofit groups of defamation after they sued over recycling claims.

www.nytimes.com
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