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Water levels sit low in Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah, on Sept. 15. Negotiations to manage the shrinking reservoir and the rest of the Colorado River system may be more difficult without federal leadership. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Nominee for Top Federal Water Role Withdraws Amid Pushback from Some Colorado River States

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Sen. Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Industry Groups’ Influence on Endangerment Finding Repeal

By Aidan Hughes

Cheryl Johnson’s Chicago nonprofit, People for Community Recovery, was part of a coalition that received a $2.8 million grant funded through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump administration canceled it this year after just $32,000 were disbursed. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

New Map Shows $29 Billion in Climate and Environment Grants Canceled or Frozen by Trump

By Dylan Baddour

Nonprofits working in environmental justice communities like this one, in Pueblo, Colorado, have filed a notice of appeal in federal court in a lawsuit they filed to secure grants provided through the Inflation Reduction Act that the Trump administration rescinded in early 2025. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Environmentalists and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of Case Over Trump’s Cancellation of Justice Grants

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of the Ocean City inlet and boardwalk in Maryland. Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Challenge to Maryland Offshore Wind Project Stokes Concerns Among Legal Scholars

By Aman Azhar

The construction site of a high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 south of Corcoran, Calif. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/Grist

Billions Spent, Miles To Go: The Story of California’s Failure To Build High-Speed Rail

By Benton Graham, Grist

An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Va. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The AI Boom Is Coming for Pennsylvania. How Will Lawmakers Respond?

By Kyle Bagenstose

Tropical analysis meteorologist Aidan Mahoney works at his station at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami on May 30. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Can Bipartisan Support in Congress Save NOAA From White House Cuts?

By Marianne Lavelle

Working from the bucket of a boom truck linemen finish up work on large transmission structures that are part of an Xcel Energy project just south of Brush, Colo., on Jan. 8, 2024. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As Congress Takes a New Swing at Bipartisan Permitting Reform, Environmental Groups Are Calling Foul

By Aidan Hughes

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

RFK Jr. Is Making America Safe for Debilitating ‘Neglected’ Tropical Diseases

By Liza Gross

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

Kavone Little stands outside the New Jersey Reentry Corporation’s Kearny facility after graduating from its solar panel installation program. Credit: Rambo Talabong/Inside Climate News

Solar Power Gave Hope to Former Prisoners in NJ. Federal Cuts Are Taking It Back

By Rambo Talabong

An oil and gas operation on leased public land in Kerns County, California. Credit: John Ciccarelli/BLM

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

Pamela McElwee speaks during the 11th session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Plenary in December 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia. Credit: Kiara Worth/Earth Negotiations Bulletin

An Energy Department Climate Change Report ‘Completely Ignored’ Adaptation, Rutgers Professor Says

By Anna Mattson

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks outside of the White House on Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Des Moines River from Prospect Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

House Bill Amending the Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water Nationwide—And Especially in Iowa

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload on its way to the International Space Station in 2019. Credit: Christina Koch/NASA

Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

U.S. Representatives gather at the Capitol to vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 3 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Energy Sector Has Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Lobbying This Year. Watchdogs Say That’s Only Half The Story

By Aidan Hughes

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