Interior cuts over 60 East Potomac Park trees days before Trump’s golf course overhaul, after Judge Ana Reyes asked for notice before removing more than 10.
River outfitters and Lipan Apache members win a court order halting all Homeland Security border barrier construction in Big Bend National Park until at least September 15.
Masked, armed CBP agents escort border wall contractors onto Tohono O’odham Nation land to begin drilling, 11 days after a judge refused to halt construction.
New Mexico sues the US and border wall contractors over unauthorized wells in protected water basins, demanding double repayment for stolen groundwater.
Alexandria, Virginia, expands its EV charger grants to nonprofits and churches, paying up to $15,000 plus free engineering help per site.
Nevada sues Interior over Colorado River cuts, saying the plan announced as 17% actually authorizes taking up to 70% of Las Vegas’s water supply.
Human-caused Hawk Fire hits 15,000 acres near Reno, forcing 42,000 to evacuate and 45,000 more on warning, as Nevada declares emergency.
Interior finalizes the largest Colorado River cuts on record, taking 1.25 million acre-feet yearly from Arizona, California, and Nevada as reservoirs hit historic lows.
Minnesota and Wisconsin link 40 E. coli and salmonella cases to alfalfa sprouts from a Minnesota grower, warning consumers to discard 2 brands.
National Park Service installs Flock license plate readers in Yosemite, extending warrantless-search camera networks into public lands as rangers object.
Appeals court unanimously upholds EPA’s hazardous designation for 2 forever chemicals, keeping polluters liable for Superfund cleanup over industry objections.
Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro orders data centers to win local approval and ends their expedited permitting, reversing his embrace of an industry now facing bipartisan backlash.
Reflecting Pool contractor returns to fix the failed liner as new Park Service signs still blame vandals for damage DOJ attributed to botched installation.
USDA moves to rescind the 2001 roadless rule protecting tens of millions of forest acres from road construction, logging, and mining.
Energy Secretary Wright issues a 6th emergency order keeping Michigan’s Campbell coal plant open, 15 months past its planned retirement.
EPA quietly stops publishing cancer risk estimates from air pollution after 2 decades, leaving raw emissions data the public cannot interpret alone.
CBP pauses all construction on its $1.7 billion border project in Big Bend National Park as bulldozers clear a route near Santa Elena Canyon.
Lake Powell hits its lowest level ever days after Lake Mead did, with combined contents last this low in 1957 before Powell existed.
Mono County, California, opens an air curtain burner that destroys 3 to 5 tons of wildfire fuel hourly while trapping smoke.
Colusa County, California, offers residents up to $10,000 to replace woodstoves made before 1988 with cleaner, cheaper-to-run heating.
USDA undersecretary Michael Boren pressed Forest Service staff for more firefighting aircraft on a 7-acre blaze near his Idaho ranch, the Washington Post reports.
North Carolina’s attorney general says Duke Energy gave wrong rate-hike figures under oath, with residential increases reaching 9.3% instead of 6.8%.
Lake Mead falls to its lowest level ever recorded after record-low winter snowpack, as Lake Powell nears the threshold where Hoover Dam’s twin loses hydropower.
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to resume wind project reviews it froze for a year, stalling 125 projects across 25 states on radar claims.
The Interior Department agrees to pay German energy giant RWE $1.22B to abandon 3 offshore wind leases, its fifth buyout pushing total payouts past $3.9B.
Appeals court rules EPA cannot claw back $20 billion in clean energy grants terminated over a policy disagreement.
Louisiana prepares to transfer 130,000 acres of coastal marshland from an ExxonMobil pollution settlement to SpaceX for a Starship launch site, the Times-Picayune reports.
CBP halts new well drilling for border wall construction after New Mexico found contractors illegally drilled 8 wells pumping ranchers’ groundwater during a drought.
Interior Dept. orders the largest Colorado River cuts ever for Arizona, California and Nevada, reducing supply by 3 million acre-feet over the coming decade.
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
St. Petersburg opens hurricane recovery programs offering buyers up to $80,000 and purchasing flood-prone homes to permanently convert into open space.
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.”