Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says

Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/31/trump-coal-plants-taxpayer-dollars

Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rules

Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/trump-biden-era-methane-emissions-rules-oil-gas

 

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds

The world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequences, according to a study by Oxfam… 

 This gives the planet’s wealthiest and most powerful people a “double dividend” from the climate crisis and, more alarmingly, an incentive to delay or disrupt action to solve the problem, the NGO says…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/27/super-rich-double-dividend-climate-crisis-oxfam

 

‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn

The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. 

Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/planetary-boundaries-breached-scientists-warn-climate-crisis

 

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

The electronic trash AI generates in the next 25 years could fill enough shipping containers to encircle the globe six times, it said. Yet, says the report by the non-profit environmental group Basel Action Network (BAN), there is no plan to deal with that waste – which typically contains toxics like lead, mercury, cadmium and forever chemicals, as well as valuable metals that are challenging to reclaim…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/datacenters-pollution-electronics

 

Former EPA Officials: Trump Is Letting Data Centers Make People Sick – Mother Jones

“Over the decades, toxicologists, chemists, atmospheric scientists, modelers and engineers worked in concert with academic colleagues on behalf of the American people—not on behalf of industry,” Costa said in a press briefing last week. “We wanted to carry out EPA’s mission of protecting people’s health from industrial air pollution.” 

 Now, though, that work force has been gutted. The Trump administration has dismantled EPA’s main research office, and the agency’s priorities have shifted away from strict enforcement of pollution standards. “Transforming the nation’s energy system, while diminishing its scientific capacity to understand what the impacts are going to be, makes no sense,” Costa said…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-epa-data-centers-epn-report-health-hazards/

 

US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis

Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings

 

Judge strikes down New York law that forced climate polluters to pay damages

“The fossil fuel industry would like nothing more than for one district court ruling in New York to scare lawmakers across the country into backing down, but this decision doesn’t bind other states or stop them from passing their own laws,” said DiPaola. 

 “If allowed to stand, some of the richest corporations in history get to walk away from $75bn they owe New Yorkers. The floods will still come, roads will still wash out and communities will still need billions to protect themselves.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/judge-strikes-new-york-law-climate-polluters-damage-pay

 

Pushback Lands Two Wins

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Fd3YiEr8hk

 

No administration has done more damage to our environment — in a shorter period of time

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XzKsafxk5O8

 

Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds

While hot seas receive little attention, they can lead to the death of habitat-forming species such as corals and macroalgae, disrupting ecosystems and leading to large-scale mortality of fish and seabirds. They also raise dangerous overnight temperatures in coastal regions, as oceans cool more slowly than land...

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/carbon-pollution-massive-expansion-marine-heatwaves-europe

 

How Fossil Fuel Companies Made Us Believe Gas Was Clean – Mother Jones

A new report released by the Center for Climate Integrity, a research and advocacy group, reveals that fossil fuel companies knew as early as the 1960s that branding gas as “clean” was deceptive…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/natural-gas-methane-pollution-clean-branding-myth/ 

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn

Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts. 

 Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters” and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval. Among other issues, pollution from satellites and rockets burning up upon re-entry appears to be accumulating in the stratosphere at alarming levels. The spacecraft release black soot, rare metals, aluminum oxides and other pollutants with unknown effects...

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/23/space-datacenters-bezos-blue-origin 

 

Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution

Decision leaves in place Biden-era standard on pollution from coal-fired plants, factories and other industrial sources

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/27/trump-epa-court-ruling-soot-pollution

 

Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds

“At a time when many Americans are concerned about the impact of environmental toxins on their families’ health, public health authorities can’t afford to overlook the impact of vehicle pollution on mortality and respiratory health outcomes,” said Lingzhi Jin, a senior researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation, in a statement…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/deaths-vehicle-emissions-pollution

 

Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

Justice department urges judge to throw out suit brought by NAACP over xAI’s methane-gas turbines in Mississippi…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/16/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-trump-administration

 

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Right Pissed About the SpaceX IPO – Mother Jones

Elon Musk’s worth tops $1 trillion as rural communities fight to rein in his gas turbines…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/xai-data-center-neighbors-angry-spacex-ipo-gas-turbines-colossus-pm2-5-elon-musk-trillionaire-pollution-asthma/

 

Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it

Residents of West Oakland, which suffers from toxic waste and high pollution rates, rally against a coal export facility…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/oakland-coal-terminal-trump-administration

 

Environmental agencies launch efforts to mitigate industrial pollution on the Detroit and Rouge Rivers

"The Detroit River Area of Concern, for example, we're talking about dredging these areas and actually removing the contamination,” she said. “In some Areas of Concern, we're able to cap the contaminated sediment to keep it in place [while also keeping] it from affecting the water quality."…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2026-06-10/environmental-agencies-launch-efforts-to-mitigate-industrial-pollution-on-the-detroit-and-rouge-rivers

 

‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/un-world-ocean-assessment-severe-stress-sea-level-rise-doubles-pollution-fishing-climate