Thousands protest in Albania as a $4.6 billion resort tied to Kushner advances on protected coastal wetlands, with security guards filmed dragging demonstrators off the site.
Trump invokes the 1950 Defense Production Act to steer nearly $700 million toward reviving coal plants, as the fuel sits in two-decade decline.
Tyco agrees to a $10 million settlement with Wisconsin over decades of PFAS contamination in Marinette, far less than residents sought.
Environmental groups sue after federal agencies shrink protected grizzly habitat in Montana from 2,500 acres to one acre, clearing the way for logging.
Seven states sue to block the administration’s $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
National Park Service diverts at least $67 million in visitor entrance fees to Trump’s Washington beautification projects as a $23 billion maintenance backlog goes unfunded.
Supreme Court approves three-state settlement curbing groundwater pumping along the Rio Grande to guarantee water flows from New Mexico to Texas.
Orange County shrinks Garden Grove chemical tank evacuation from 50,000 to 16,000 as catastrophic explosion threat ends day 5 of GKN Aerospace crisis.
Booz Allen Hamilton on pace to make 3.4x its own Recreation.gov estimate, projected $620 million by 2028 contract end as DOGE cuts oversight.
Newsom asks Trump for federal emergency declaration as Garden Grove chemical tank threatens explosion four days into 50,000-person evacuation.
Newsom declares state of emergency as 50,000 evacuated around Garden Grove aerospace plant where overheating tank of flammable acrylic chemical could still explode.
Energy Secretary Wright tells Utah summit that global warming is real but “no big deal,” not among the world’s top 5 or 10 problems, urging Americans to drop “doomster” climate views.
Greenland envoy Landry pitches 2 million barrels of daily Danish-territory oil to relieve Strait of Hormuz pressure after uninvited three-day visit.
EPA loosens grocery store refrigerant rule from Trump’s 2020 bipartisan climate law, pitching rollback of potent greenhouse gas as a grocery price fix.
Trump’s Bedminster golf club manager, with no engineering training, advised Interior on Reflecting Pool repairs and recruited contractor that won $1.7M no-bid deal.
Trump-supporting Georgia town of Social Circle sues DHS and ICE in federal court to block the planned 10,000-bed detention center that would triple its population.
Bureau of Land Management rescinds 2024 rule that recognized conservation as a legitimate use of 245 million acres of public land.
Interior Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen admits on video to shaping grazing rules that benefit ranches her family runs on 250,000 acres of federal land.
FOIA records show 180+ polluters got Clean Air Act exemptions through email requests with no EPA scientific review.
Bureau of Reclamation cuts Lake Powell releases 20% to protect reservoir, leaving Arizona, Nevada, California water deliveries uncertain.
Interior Secretary Burgum directs national park, refuge, and wilderness managers to scale back hunting restrictions, including 55 NPS sites.
Joint Base Andrews lost 32,000 gallons of jet fuel, some into Piscataway Creek, over four months as Air Force failed to notify Maryland of December leak test failure.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to seek court approval before cutting more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Links, warning against forgiveness-later approach.
DHS environmental waivers allowed border wall construction to destroy 60-foot section of 1,000-year-old Hia-ced O’odham intaglio in Arizona wildlife refuge.
Trump approves Bridger Pipeline Expansion to carry 550,000 barrels of Canadian oil daily through Montana and Wyoming, dubbed “Keystone Light” after Biden killed original.
Whistleblower groups represent EPA workers disciplined over 2025 dissent letter to Administrator Zeldin, citing internal warning that punishment carried significant legal risk.
Interior Department pays Bluepoint and Golden State Wind $885 million to surrender offshore leases in exchange for matching investments in fossil fuel projects.
White House withdraws nomination of Delaware North executive Scott Socha for National Park Service director after February nomination drew conservationist backlash over privatization ties.
US Mint laundering Colombian cartel gold into ‘American’ coins for years despite 1985 ban, NYT investigation finds.
Arizona AG Mayes sues the Trump administration over plans to convert a Surprise warehouse across the street from a hazardous chemical storage site into an ICE detention center.
Maine Gov. Mills vetoes first-in-nation data center moratorium to save 800 construction jobs at a paper mill in her home county, six weeks before her Senate primary.
USDA moves to close world’s largest agricultural research complex in Maryland despite congressional appropriations language barring closures without committee approval.
11th Circuit vacates injunction ordering Everglades immigration detention facility closed, accepting Florida’s argument that the state-built camp is exempt from federal environmental review.
Environmental groups sue Interior Department over approval of BP’s ultra-deepwater Gulf drilling project on 16th anniversary of Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Justice Department and Maryland separately sue DC Water over February Potomac sewage spill, alleging neglected maintenance of aging sewer line.
Maine passes the nation’s first statewide ban on new large data centers, pausing permits until November 2027 to study energy and water impacts.
Trump denies Colorado wildfire and flood disaster funding for the first time in 35 years while pursuing multiple punitive actions against the state.
Environmental groups ask appeals court to reinstate order closing an immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades after state received $608 million in federal funding.
Trump moves to close the nation’s premier federal bee research lab six months after scientists there identified the cause of 1.6 million colony deaths.
USDA kills 49 of 50 farm grants for underserved producers, costing Montana tribes nearly $15 million for land and training programs the agency labeled DEI.
EPA official overseeing methane rule rollback secretly authored the oil industry’s arguments against those same rules while working as a lobbyist, ProPublica finds.
Trump’s “God Squad” convenes for the first time in over 30 years and votes unanimously to exempt all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling from Endangered Species Act protections.
USDA relocates Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, closes all regional offices, and consolidates research operations in the largest restructuring in the agency’s history.
EPA watchdog finds nearly 100 Superfund toxic waste sites vulnerable to flooding and wildfires, with 13 million Americans living within three miles of them.
Hegseth invokes national security to seek first-ever Endangered Species Act exemption for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening 50 remaining Rice’s whales.
Climate scientist Kate Marvel resigns from NASA after approved research went unfunded and her lab lost its lease, part of a 10,000-scientist federal exodus.
EPA waives summer restrictions on higher ethanol gasoline blend to ease prices as the Iran war disrupts global oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz.
California sues Trump for using the Defense Production Act to force restart of an offshore oil pipeline shut down after the 2015 Refugio Beach spill.
White House agrees to pay French energy giant TotalEnergies $1 billion to abandon its East Coast wind farm leases and reinvest in U.S. oil and gas production.
New Jersey and Roxbury sue to block ICE from converting a 470,000-square-foot warehouse into a 1,500-bed detention center that could open within three months.
