Grist
EPA Gives Data Centers a Pass on Clean Air Rules, Because of Course
EPA just made it easier for data centers to build their own polluting power plants, because the 1990s were clearly a different era.
2026-08-28
Grist
2026-08-14
Grist
EPA Quietly Deletes Cancer Risk Data, Because Ignorance Is Bliss (For Polluters)
The EPA has quietly stopped publishing cancer risk estimates from air pollution, leaving communities to fend for themselves with raw data and a shrug.
2026-07-20
The Guardian
EPA to Farmers: Do Your Own Research on the 'Forever Chemicals' We're Letting You Spread on Fields
EPA scraps science-based limits on Pfas in sewage sludge fertilizer, advises farmers to 'do their own research' as forever chemicals continue to poison land, water, and food.
2026-07-05
Ars Technica
Chemical Accidents Surge as Feds Decide Now Is the Perfect Time to Weaken Safety Rules
Chemical accidents are up 57% since 2021, but the Trump administration wants to weaken safety rules anyway - because nothing says 'protecting communities' like rolling back protections while infrastructure ages.
2026-06-30
Grist
Chicago's Lead Pipe Replacement Costs Are So High, Even the Pipes Are Blushing
Chicago spends a jaw-dropping $31,000 per lead pipe replacement - six times the national average - thanks to bureaucratic chaos, inefficient contracts, and a permitting process that makes homeowners weep.
2026-06-24
The Hill
Chemours to Pay $450M for Polluting Waterways with 'Forever Chemicals' It Promised Would Be Fine
Chemours coughs up $450M for polluting drinking water with PFAS, the chemicals that last longer than the company's denials.
2026-06-09
Grist
Pesticide Makers Try to Make Lawsuits Disappear, One State at a Time
Chemical companies are trying to make lawsuits disappear faster than their pesticides break down, one state at a time, while farmers and advocates fight for accountability.
2026-05-31
Inside Climate News
California Air Monitors That Failed Ohio Residents Now Being Used in Garden Grove Tank Crisis, Because Why Change What Isn't Working
California air monitors that failed to detect chemicals in East Palestine are now being used in Orange County's tank crisis, because nothing says 'trust us' like repeating the same mistakes.
2026-05-30
Inside Climate News
EPA Says New Refrigerant Rollbacks Will Save You Money; Industry Says Actually They'll Cost You More
Trump promises lower prices from refrigerant rollbacks; manufacturers and math disagree.
2026-05-29
Inside Climate News
Environmentalists Show Up to Tell EPA 'No Thanks' to Coal Ash Deregulation
Environmentalists flood an EPA virtual hearing to oppose Trump's coal ash rollbacks, warning that weaker rules mean more toxic sludge in groundwater and playgrounds.
2026-05-24
Grist
EPA Tells Hawaii to Keep Its Dinosaur Power Plants Running, Because Nothing Says Clean Air Like 1948 Technology
EPA blocks Hawaii from retiring 1940s oil-burning power plants, citing reliability and constitutional concerns, while environmental groups cry foul over clean air.
2026-05-22
Inside Climate News
Congress Holds Hearing on Sewage Spill, Discovers Old Pipes Are Old
Congress discovers that 60-year-old pipes with boulders on top might eventually break, after 242 million gallons of sewage test the theory in the Potomac River.
2026-05-20
TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI Sued for Polluting, Responds by Ordering $2.8B More Polluters
Elon Musk's xAI is being sued for air pollution, so it's doubling down with $2.8B in new gas turbines. Because nothing says 'we care about the environment' like buying more of the thing you're being sued for.
2026-05-19
Inside Climate News
Appeals Court Tells Alabama Power Its 21.7 Million Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Can't Just Sit There
An appeals court revives a lawsuit over 21.7 million tons of toxic coal ash in Alabama's ecologically sensitive delta, telling Alabama Power it can't just cap the problem.
2026-05-18
Inside Climate News
EPA Claims Americans Are ‘Overwhelmingly Rejecting’ EVs, Moves to Loosen Air Pollution Rules It Helped Make Worse
The EPA says Americans don't want EVs, ignoring that it killed the tax credits and blocked state rules that made them viable.
2026-05-15
Inside Climate News
TVA Hands Out Pamphlet Calling Coal Ash Safe, Researchers Call It 'Alternative Reality'
America's largest public utility distributes booklet claiming coal ash is harmless; experts who've actually studied it use words like 'lies' and 'dishonest.'
2026-05-12
Inside Climate News
EPA Proposes Letting Gas Plants and Data Centers Build First, Ask for Pollution Permits Later
The EPA wants to let companies pour foundations and run pipes for gas plants and data centers before getting air permits, because who needs clean air when you have AI to build?
2026-05-11
The Guardian
Seabird Eggs Show 74% Drop in Toxic 'Forever Chemicals,' Proving Regulations Sometimes Work
Canadian seabird eggs show PFAS levels plummeting after regulations kicked in, proving that banning poison actually reduces poison - who knew?
2026-05-10
Inside Climate News
Oil and Gas Industry’s ‘Set It and Forget It’ Attitude Leaves Millions of Derelict Wells - and One Guy Cleaning Up
Millions of abandoned oil and gas wells leak methane and toxins across the U.S., but one nonprofit is plugging them one by one, while regulators and politicians play hot potato with cleanup funds.
2026-04-28
Grist
Man With a Lead-Testing Gun and a Dissertation Is City's Best Hope. He's Graduating.
A Rutgers PhD student has been the only person systematically testing Trenton homes for lead contamination. He graduates next month, and nobody is lined up to replace him.
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