Energy Department admits in court it canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants based solely on whether states voted Democratic, contradicting sworn testimony denying politics.
Rhode Island Gov. McKee declares an energy affordability emergency, directing $28 million in climate auction funds to offset a 15% winter rate hike for 450,000 households.
Energy Department deletes its entire 1,600-page consumer energy section without explanation, wiping utility-savings guidance drawing 160,000 monthly views during heat waves.
Trump orders debarment officials to review a judicial science manual over its climate chapter, which the judiciary already withdrew under Republican pressure.
California regulators reject utilities’ plan and bar power shutoffs for unpaid bills when temperatures top 90 degrees, down from 100.
Federal judge rules the administration illegally used an OMB budget clause to cancel billions in grants Congress already approved for states.
Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke five months after the Supreme Court ruled he lacks unilateral tariff authority.
Charlotte creates a registry letting residents certify pollinator gardens as natural habitats, exempting them from code violation citations.
Canadian wildfire smoke drives hazardous air through Saturday for 120 million Americans from Minneapolis to the mid-Atlantic as nearly 900 fires burn.
Rangers evacuate up to 10,000 campers from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters as smoke from over 100 Canadian wildfires blankets the Midwest and Northeast.
Bloomington, Indiana offers neighborhood groups up to $1,000 for resident-led climate projects like community gardens, composting, and solar on shared buildings.
New York becomes the first state to ban new large AI data centers, freezing 50-megawatt projects for a year as electric bills climb 68% since 2019.
Trump shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante again, cutting 3 million acres and leaving the Utah monuments below a tenth of their size.
Trump names a climate skeptic with no climate science training to lead the National Climate Assessment, the congressionally mandated report his administration already pulled offline.
Interior Department strips habitat destruction from the Endangered Species Act’s definition of harm, ending 50 years of protection for places imperiled wildlife live and breed.
Baltimore sends city crews into every council district for 24 weeks of street sweeping, pothole repair, graffiti removal, and rodent control.
Twenty of Iowa’s 41 monitored state park beaches have been flagged unsafe for swimming at least once in the season’s first seven weeks.
Tacoma begins offering expedited permits and waived fees to builders who have structures assessed for reusable materials before demolition.
Trump pardons six unnamed people imprisoned for disabling vehicle pollution controls, claiming they were persecuted for “fixing their car.”
Energy Department deletes its own 78-degree thermostat guidance after conservatives mock NYC Mayor Mamdani for giving identical heat wave advice.
Appeals court rules the Trump administration can keep slavery, climate, and immigration materials out of national parks, reversing a June restoration order.
Federal judge demands assurances Trump won’t start East Potomac golf course renovations before the lawsuit resolves, citing his September 1 announcement and detailed Fazio plans.
New York City prepares two Manhattan heliports for electric air taxi service, with first commercial flights under an FAA pilot program expected this year.
California becomes the first state to ban “sell by” food labels, requiring standardized dates aimed at the 6 million tons of unexpired food tossed yearly.
A reversal of decades of wildfire science draws scrutiny after three federal firefighters die in Colorado under Trump’s new full-suppression policy and untested fire agency.
Pennsylvania’s House votes 197-5 in rare bipartisan agreement to repeal data center tax breaks for Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet, ending a five-year giveaway.
Arizona builds its 27th wildlife crossing over Interstate 17, part of a network the state credits with cutting wildlife collisions 90%.
A federal appeals court rejects Trump’s EPA bid to abandon a 2024 rule tightening soot limits, leaving the standard the agency says will prevent 4,500 deaths a year in place.
Chicago builds the nation’s largest community air-monitoring network, 277 sensors citywide, under a 2023 settlement of a civil rights complaint over a polluting scrap shredder.
The Supreme Court rules 7-2 that federal pesticide law bars consumers from suing Monsanto for failing to warn that Roundup may cause cancer, ending tens of thousands of state lawsuits.
DeSantis declares the Everglades migrant lockup “Alligator Alcatraz” a success as he confirms its shutdown after less than a year and at least $1 billion in contracts.
An internal Interior Department memo bars National Park Service staff from confirming visitor deaths or injuries, reversing a longtime disclosure policy that rangers say keeps the public safe.
Chemours will pay $450 million to settle a decade of illegal “forever chemical” discharges into three rivers, the first federal PFAS-manufacturer deal, which an affected state calls inadequate.
A nonprofit relaunches the government’s deleted climate.gov, restoring 15 years of data, research, and the National Climate Assessment the Trump administration took down.
The Senate passes a bipartisan housing affordability bill 85 to 5, restricting large companies from buying single-family homes and waiving some environmental reviews for new construction.
A Trump supporter’s company, ScottsMiracle-Gro, pledges $1 million to repair the White House lawn its sponsored UFC event destroyed, drawing ethics complaints.
Los Angeles declares a local emergency as a Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse burns for a fourth day, blanketing the city in smoke from 85 million pounds of rotting food.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore climate change and Wabanaki Nations signs removed from Acadia and other national parks, ruling the removals rewrote history “with a white-out pen.”
The National Science Foundation reverses its dismantling of a $386 million ocean monitoring network after a bipartisan revolt and a unanimous Senate bill led by Merkley and Murkowski.
The Interior Department pays Invenergy $765 million to drop four offshore wind leases, its third such buyout in three months totaling $2.6 billion.
Fired Homeland Security Secretary Noem, still serving as a Trump special envoy, joins a Canadian mining firm’s advisory board as it pursues critical minerals.
The Trump administration blames Obama after the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turns green days after its $14 million renovation.
Two rural Tennessee communities pause data center development to write grid, water, and pollution rules first, after the industry targeted them expecting little local resistance.
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to its lowest level since 1983, months after the Trump administration ordered a 172 million-barrel drawdown.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers demands the National Science Foundation halt the dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory network, accusing it of skipping legally required notice to Congress.
National Park Service crews scrub algae from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool days after a $15 million no-bid renovation painted it blue.
Fourteen Republican attorneys general ask the EPA to regulate the abortion pill mifepristone as a water contaminant, a claim environmental scientists say has no evidence.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery and climate it stripped from national parks, ruling the removals unlawful censorship.
National Science Foundation decommissions a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network as Alaska’s fisheries face salmon crashes, crab collapses and repeated marine heatwaves.
Federal judge rules the EPA illegally killed a $2.8 billion environmental justice grant program but declines to order its restart.
