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Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health
Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American
The Trump administration wants to boost manufacturing of glyphosate, the world’s most common weed killer. Here’s what that could mean for health
Feb 27, 2026, 9:00 PM
Why farmers in California are backing a giant solar farm
Dan Charles, NPR
Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land… into solar farms.
Feb 26, 2026, 10:25 AM
America's hottest NIMBY issue: Data centers
Amanda Hoover, Business Insider
As politicians can't ignore data centers anymore, everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ron DeSantis is turning against them.
Feb 22, 2026, 9:13 AM
East Antarctica Is Incredibly Cold, But It Has Lost 1.85 Trillion Tons Of Ice In The Past Two Decades Due To Global Warming
Kyra Piperides, Twistedsifter.com
You might be chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the world is getting colder.
Feb 21, 2026, 8:48 PM
‘A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Evan Simon, Floodlight, Floodlightnews.org
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
Feb 21, 2026, 2:00 PM
Sierra Club Statement on Trump Administration Opening Millions of Acres of Protected Public Lands to Mining
Press Release, CleanTechnica
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior announced today it would revoke two public land orders to open more than two million acres of public lands in Alaska to drilling and mining. In an announcement late Friday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Bu…
Feb 21, 2026, 2:16 AM
America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater
Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge
For decades, America's auto industry was the envy of the world, driven by mass production, the rise of Detroit's Big Three automakers, and the iconic stylings of the 1950s and '60s. Then, through a series of blunders and missteps, things started to unravel. T…
Feb 20, 2026, 7:52 PM
Trump administration slashes mercury regulations from coal plants
Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American
Mercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious neurological problems, especially in children and babies
Feb 20, 2026, 5:30 PM
Scientists worry about lasting damage from Potomac sewage spill
Michael Copley, NPR
Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.
Feb 20, 2026, 10:16 AM
Reservations No Longer Needed at Three of America’s Most Popular National Parks
Jeremy Gray, PetaPixel
The National Park Service (NPS) has announced that visitors to three of the most popular national parks in the United States will no longer need to make reservations to enter in 2026. The move is a dramatic shift in how the NPS handles over-visitation and ove…
Feb 19, 2026, 3:23 PM
EPA faces lawsuits over climate endangerment finding withdrawal
Dan Vergano, Scientific American
Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health
Feb 18, 2026, 3:00 PM
Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
The Associated Press, NPR
Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America's national parks.
Feb 18, 2026, 7:09 AM
Why privatizing public land won’t solve the housing crisis
Kyle Manley, Scientific American
An environmental scientist’s analysis reveals who will win and who will lose in the push to put federal land into private hands
Feb 17, 2026, 11:00 AM
Trump Blames Popular Black Democrat for Potomac River Sewage Spill
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
President Trump is blaming Maryland Governor Wes Moore for sewage pollution in the Potomac River, something Moore has no control over. “There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democ…
Feb 16, 2026, 9:43 PM
Start-stop stiffed: EPA kills annoying automatic engine shutoff
Lauren Fix, TheBlaze
The EPA just delivered news that millions of fed-up American drivers have been waiting for: Automatic start-stop technology is no longer being propped up by federal regulation.On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin annou…
Feb 14, 2026, 9:30 AM
Analysis-Trump EPA ends emissions limits for US automakers; state rules, lawsuits could follow
By Valerie Volcovici, Yahoo Entertainment
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation for federal climate regulation will immediately free...
Feb 13, 2026, 5:13 PM
Trump revokes US scientific finding behind climate change regulations
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Trump administration rescinds 'endangerment finding' that serves as the legal bases to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Feb 13, 2026, 12:08 AM
The U.S. Has a Massive Advantage Over the Country I Live In. Trump Is Determined to Squander It.
Jill Filipovic, Slate Magazine
Some countries have to choose between development and the environment. We don't.
Feb 12, 2026, 8:37 PM
What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public health
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American
The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean
Feb 12, 2026, 7:38 PM
Trump Just Blew American Climate Policy to Smithereens
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal bedrock for the agency's actions against planet-warming pollution.
Feb 12, 2026, 6:59 PM
EPA set to scrap the ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change harms human health
Dan Vergano, Scientific American
The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks
Feb 12, 2026, 3:15 PM
EPA Boss Lee Zeldin Hints the U.S. Government Plans to Axe Stop-Start Systems This Week
Lucas Bell, RoadandTrack.com
Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin posted on Twitter, aka X, hinting that the government may work to get rid of...
Feb 11, 2026, 6:15 PM
Trump's EPA plans to end a key climate pollution regulation
Jeff Brady, NPR
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
Feb 11, 2026, 10:31 AM
Trump Just Screwed the Atlantic’s Only Marine Monument
Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo.com
President Trump has legalized commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which has been federally protected for a decade.
Feb 10, 2026, 5:10 PM