Regulation
A Year Out From One of the World’s Largest Battery Facility Fires
By Claire Barber
Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say
By Jake Bolster
Cleaner Water a Hope, Not a Given, for Iowa in 2026
By Anika Jane Beamer
As Data Centers Jostle to Get on Texas’ Grid, ERCOT Promises New Rules for ‘Batch Zero’
By Arcelia Martin
Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US
By Leigh Reagan Smith
New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects
By Teresa Tomassoni
Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System
By Nicholas Kusnetz
States Say They Need More Help Replacing Lead Pipes. Congress May Cut the Funding Instead.
By Keerti Gopal
‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law
By Katie Surma
Arizona Comes to Agreement With Major Dairy Farm to Cut Groundwater Pumping That Is Draining Wells
By Wyatt Myskow
Outcry Builds Over Trump’s Withdrawal From International, Climate Treaties
By Marianne Lavelle
Looking Ahead to a Deepening Affordability Crisis, an Election and the Threat of an AI Investment Bubble
By Dan Gearino
Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers
By Charles Paullin
The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Commandeering a Texas River
By Salina Arredondo, Public Health Watch
How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk
By Lee Hedgepeth
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff