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Yellow excavator digging deep trench making way for pipeline construction

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files lawsuit to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday filed a new lawsuit to try to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline, continuing a decade-long battle over the project.

northdakotamonitor.com
A table with scales of justice and a wooden gavel on top of legal books

Climate lawsuits gain ground as governments scale back climate action

Over the past decade, legal activists have successfully taken a number of national governments to court, triggering the adoption of more climate-friendly policies in countries including the Netherlands, Pakistan, Switzerland, South Korea, and others.

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Climate change is on the ballot —even if Democrats aren’t saying those words

The Democrats have been accused, fairly, of “climate hushing.” But they’re finding subtle ways to connect environmental issues with voters’ pocketbook concerns.
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Woman bathing in a river

In Mexico, polluted rivers, dried-up wells are reshaping a once-fertile valley

Water in central Mexico’s Cholula valley has transformed from a shared resource into a costly and unevenly-distributed commodity.

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Great Lakes of North America, political map. Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Lake Ontario.

Great Lakes lab hit by DOGE is hanging on — for now

If the Trump administration had its way, an Ann Arbor-based research lab that studies the Great Lakes and its coastal ecosystems would be gone. 
michiganadvance.com
An aerial view of the city of Toronto with Lake Ontario in the background

Lake Ontario: Donald Trump and the great distraction

This expert says Donald Trump’s environmental science cutbacks are the real threat to Lake Ontario and other Great Lakes.

thenarwhal.ca
Woman wearing an orange sweatshirt holding a sign saying "There is no planet B"

US EPA head announces oil and gas emission rules rollbacks during visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lee Zeldin announced plans for further cancellations of oil and gas regulations aimed at reducing emissions of climate-warming gasses.

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An LNG tanker ship and tugs are maneuvering for docking at a gas terminal

Inside the web of pro-oil and gas groups shaping Canada’s climate change narrative

New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out connections between pro-fossil fuel groups working together to influence public opinion.

thenarwhal.ca
A herd of cattle walking across a field during sunrise

The American livestock industry’s main lobbying group treated climate change as a PR problem

More examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s efforts to downplay and deny the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.

insideclimatenews.org
LNG tanker ship with oil and gas refinery plant in background

A Canadian LNG project is expected to push emissions past standards

A FortisBC’s plan to further expand its decades-old LNG facility will significantly worsen pollution in neighboring communities.

thetyee.ca
Worker installing solar panels on a shingled residential rooftop

To block solar energy projects, one community lumped them in with junkyards and adult bookstores

A local fight in Indiana shows that even streamlined permitting can’t overcome deep community resistance to solar development.
insideclimatenews.org
Trans Alaska pipeline along the Dalton Road

Trump exempts oil exploration in Arctic petroleum reserve from environmental reviews

The Interior Department issued a notice exempting wintertime oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from the reviews.

thehill.com
Dairy cows lined up in a milking parlor

Lawsuit seeks answers on EPA’s abandoned CAFO pollution panel

US regulators are illegally withholding records related to the disbanding of a panel set up by the Biden administration to address water pollution from factory farms.

www.thenewlede.org
Workers overlook the Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline Construction Site in Minnesota forest with excavators and bulldozer.

‘We are seen as disposable’: Rural residents fight a proposed gas pipeline

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority areas.

kffhealthnews.org
An illustration of a burning earth being dipped into cool water

‘Every day above 1.5 C is now going to matter’

Environmental scientist Debra Roberts encourages people to ask questions and pressure policymakers to take bold climate action.

www.thexylom.com
A satellite view of the Mediterranean and Northern Africa including the Caspian Sea to the east of the Black Sea

The Caspian Sea has been shrinking for decades. Now, a new island has emerged

Parts of the northern Caspian could face an Aral Sea-like scenario, while climate change and human water use are adding pressure on the region.

www.euronews.com
An interior view of a data center with servers stretching into the distance

A construction ban on data centers would be better for Ohio than the status quo, study says

Forcing AI companies to generate 90% of the power through renewables would be best, a cost-benefit analysis has said.

ohiocapitaljournal.com
Public hearing space with microphone in foreground and empty seats in a blurry background

Opinion: How the U.S. public lost its say on environmental policy

The Trump administration is systematically undercutting the public comment process, stifling dissenting input, while skirting federal laws.

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