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.
DC Water rushes emergency repairs on another corroded stretch of the sewer line that dumped 240 million gallons into the Potomac in January.
Agriculture Secretary Rollins blames Biden border policies for the flesh-eating screwworm’s return as Democrats point to her department’s 21,000 lost employees.
FBI serves search warrant at the aerospace plant whose overheating chemical tank forced 50,000 Californians from their homes over Memorial Day weekend.
Trump’s Justice Department killed a criminal pollution investigation into the coal empire of Republican Senator Jim Justice, a close Trump ally.
New Mexico confirms its first New World screwworm case in 60 years as the flesh-eating parasite spreads beyond Texas.
Salt Lake City and county sue to stop ICE from turning an 830,000-square-foot warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center.
Agriculture Department confirms a second Texas screwworm case, the flesh-eating pest’s first U.S. cattle return since 1982.
Lawsuit seeks to block the UFC fight Trump scheduled on the White House South Lawn for his June 14 birthday.
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.