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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on July 8. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

EPA Rescinds Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Harm Human Health, Hobbling U.S. Climate Action

By Wyatt Myskow

Musonda Mumba, secretary general of the Convention on Wetlands, speaks to a crowd of delegates from around the world on July 24 at COP15 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Credit: Convention on Wetlands

Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling

By Katie Surma

The deep-sea mining vessel “Hidden Gem,” owned by AllSeas and commissioned by The Metals Co., is seen anchored at sea in Labuan, Malaysia. Credit: Jurnasyanto Sukarno/Greenpeace

Nations Denounce Deep Sea Mining Company’s Bid to Exploit Metals in the Pacific Under US Law

By Teresa Tomassoni

Treated sewage sludge dries in shallow sand beds. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge

By Tom Perkins

Vehicles drive along highway 101 on May 19 in San Francisco. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Plan to End Greenhouse Gas Regulations, Expected Imminently, Will Harm Human Health, Experts Say

By Amy Green

The Delaware River flows through Pennsylvania near the New Jersey border. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin

By Jon Hurdle

President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

Yuji Iwasawa (center), president of the International Court of Justice, issues the first advisory opinion on States’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague on Wednesday. Credit: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

Governments Are Legally Required to Address Climate Change, Top Global Court Says

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

People fish across from the oil refineries inside the Texas City industrial complex in Texas on May 4, 2021. Credit: Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal

By Marianne Lavelle

Global leaders are gathered in Kingston, Jamaica, for several weeks this month to debate a set of regulations that would govern future deep sea mining activities. Credit: Andrés Felipe Carvajal Gómez for IISD/ENB

Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm

By Teresa Tomassoni

An aerial view of the xAI data center, called Colossus, in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Steve Jones, Flight by Southwings for SELC

In South Memphis, Elon Musk’s Colossus Operated Gas Turbines Without Appropriate Permits, Residents and Activists Claim

By Jennifer Ugwa

NASA says it has “no legal obligation” to maintain public access to archives of pre-existing National Climate Assessments. Credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

NASA Pulls Back From Promise to Host Major Climate Change Reports, Citing Legal Loophole

By Finya Swai

The watercress darter, an endangered fish found only in central Alabama, could be put at risk by a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Bessemer, Alabama, Could Face Legal Action Over Environmental Impacts From a ‘Hyperscale’ Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier speaks to his constituents during a town hall meeting in 2019, similar to the one he held on Thursday. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images.

California Congressman Vows to Challenge Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’

By Liza Gross

Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso listens to a comment by a delegate during the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 1, 2024. Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say

By Liza Gross

A washed away road in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Chantal on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images

Chantal Wreaks Havoc in North Carolina as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

By Lisa Sorg

Vehicles move slowly through midtown Manhattan traffic in New York City on June 6, 2024. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Traci Donatto outside her home in Deer Park, Texas. After 20 years away, she returned to the Houston suburb to care for her father, a former contract welder for the petrochemical industry who is dying of cancer. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions

By Shelby Jouppi

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