Federal judge blocks changes to Washington’s East Potomac golf course, citing Trump posts contradicting sworn testimony, and Trump says it will still close.
Florida’s locally acquired cases of mosquito-borne dengue pass 400 this year, most in Hillsborough County, as new cases reach Citrus, Manatee and Brevard counties.
Los Angeles stops shutting off water and power for unpaid home bills through 2026 at Mayor Bass’s request, after record summer and fall heat waves.
Agriculture Department reopens New Mexico ports to Mexican livestock Monday, days after screwworm cases put much of southern New Mexico in an infested zone.
Loudoun County, Virginia, gets Amazon to drop four planned data centers, build homes instead and donate 25 acres for an arts and recreation center.
Trump tells North Carolina rally Camp Lejeune contaminated-water victims will be paid only if Republicans keep Congress: “If we don’t win, there’s no money.”
Trump signs law making Arizona’s Chiricahua the 64th national park, the first since 2020, though the Interior Department won’t say if staff or money follow.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to resume Texas’ Big Bend border wall construction, saying the pause costs $460,000 daily, after a judge refused Tuesday.
Trump says East Potomac golf course closes Nov. 15 for championship rebuild, two days after Justice Department told federal judge it was preliminary.
Arizona joins Nevada’s lawsuit against the federal government over Colorado River cuts that spare upstream Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Justice Department says federal judge violated separation of powers by ordering Interior Department officials to testify in DC golf course tree-cutting case.
Boston awards $1 million to six clean air projects aimed at low-income neighborhoods, from daycare air filters to Chinatown heat pump conversions.
Interior Department raises Denali National Park’s road limit to 160 vehicles a day from about 100, citing Trump’s order to cut park recreation restrictions.
Trump pardons two Alaska shop owners onstage at a rally, saying they “fixed an engine,” but prosecutors said the shop disabled emissions controls on at least 37 vehicles.
Judge extends DC golf course tree-cutting halt to Oct. 26, orders acting Park Service chief and Interior aide named as ordering the cuts to testify.
Interior Department cancels national park maintenance and programming contracts and downgrades nearly 1,500 projects to “low priority,” internal Park Service records show.
Federal judge accuses Trump administration of deceiving her after it fells 430 trees on 12 hours’ notice at the DC golf course Trump wants remade.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sues to shut down Dakota Access pipeline, challenging the Army Corps’ approval of its Missouri River crossing upstream of tribal drinking water.
National Park Service will cut up to 529 East Potomac golf course trees starting Saturday, while calling Trump’s redesign only a “potential project.”
Arlington County, Virginia, becomes first government to sue over Trump’s 250-foot arch, calling the National Park Service review a pretext for his “marching orders.”
California Gov. Newsom signs law letting households install plug-in “balcony solar” panels up to 1,200 watts without the utility approval all solar now requires.
Texas utility regulators sue to keep data centers’ counties secret, citing terrorism, after Attorney General Paxton’s office twice ruled the records public.
New Orleans City Council unanimously approves $26.6 million to subsidize backup batteries for about 1,450 homes and businesses, paid by Entergy’s nuclear plant settlement.
Florida’s dengue outbreak hits a record 252 locally acquired cases, adding 62 in one week and topping 2023’s 199.
Federal judge halts Big Bend border barrier construction until a lawsuit is decided, two days after Homeland Security lifted its own pause.
21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.
MLB rules out a game at Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, which The Washington Post reported Trump officials weighed, after local leaders objected.
Trump says South Korea will invest $54 billion in an Alaska natural gas pipeline Seoul says it’s still reviewing for commercial viability.
Texas Gov. Abbott declares a statewide disaster over diesel at $5.86 a gallon, up from $3.30 in February, seven months into the Iran war.
Transportation Department cuts fuel economy target to 34.9 mpg by 2031, below Trump’s own 2020 rollback, as pump prices hit records.
National Park Service’s deputy director scouts three Grand Teton sites for a Major League Baseball ballpark, WaPo reports, as White House says it’s no priority.
New Jersey regulators fine Vineland data center $1.07 million for allegedly running 62 unpermitted natural-gas generators after residents complained of noise and air pollution.
Nine states sue to block Trump administration deals paying wind developers to cancel offshore leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead.
Federal judge orders EPA to reinstate $7 billion in Solar for All grants for 900,000 lower-income households, ruling Trump’s budget law cannot cancel existing grants.
Trump signs orders expanding federal-land hunting and restoring lead ammunition, telling hunters “I don’t know what the hell that means” but “you wanted it.”
Trump administration begins installing 30-foot wall panels in the Big Bend region a day after West Texas landowners sued to stop it.
National Park Service awards a $389,355 engineering contract and posts a $49 million construction bid for Trump’s East Potomac golf course overhaul without telling Congress, Rep. Huffman reveals.
EPA repeals limits on power-plant climate pollution, arguing greenhouse gases don’t endanger health, a claim that if upheld would bar future presidents from restoring them.
North Carolina wins $590 million from Chemours and DuPont over forever-chemical pollution from the Fayetteville Works plant, the largest environmental damages recovery in state history.
Park Service quietly opens contracting for a $500 million-plus sea wall key to Trump’s East Potomac golf project, with no funding after Congress ignored the request.
Interior Department blocks more than 130 national park projects worth $25 million, including Joshua Tree fire preparedness, saying partner groups work against administration priorities, Washington Post reports.
Federal appeals court strikes down Energy Department’s emergency order keeping 64-year-old Michigan coal plant open 15 months past retirement, finding no specific shortage justified it.
Nearly 2 dozen states sue to void 3 Trump rules weakening the Endangered Species Act, including one that stops counting habitat destruction as harm.
Washington, D.C., adds 20 more locked food-waste “smart bins” for apartment dwellers this fall after residents dropped 1 million pounds into the first 31 since 2024.
Trump orders agencies to start removing gray wolves from the endangered species list and tells Interior Secretary Burgum to push states to let ranchers shoot them.
Sunnyvale, California, launches Beam, an all-electric ride-hailing service with $3.50 fares and $1.75 for seniors, teens and low-income riders, funded for the next 20 years.
Forest Service will close nearly 2 dozen research facilities, dissolve all regional offices and move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, claiming $16 million in savings.
Maryland awards $28.5 million to electrify school and transit buses and add EV chargers, including 35 ports at 5 apartment complexes, as gas prices climb.
California sues to void a $120 million federal buyout that paid Golden State Wind to drop its offshore lease and fund Gulf Coast fossil fuel projects.
Interior Department weighs trading part of Yosemite National Park to a Nevada developer wanting a private road into the park, a year after Congress refused, the LA Times reports.