#Environmental Policy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 EPA tells some scientific research staffers to relocate — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of employees as part of its efforts to reorganize its scientific research. The ag...

  Related: #Government Reorganization, #Scientific Research
• 🇺🇸 EPA proposes gutting rules for handling toxic coal ash, a move that threatens groundwater — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening rules for the disposal of ash produced by burning coal that can contain hazardous heavy metals and contaminate groundwater.

  Related: #Regulatory Rollback, #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration proposes more flexible regulations for coal plants’ toxic waste disposal — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration is proposing to make regulations on the disposal of coal plants’ toxic waste more flexible. When coal is burned to produce power, it results in a waste known as “coal ash” tha...

  Related: #Energy Regulation, #Political Deregulation
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration proposes gutting rules targeting coal plant ash that threatens groundwater — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening rules for the disposal of ash produced by burning coal that can contain hazardous heavy metals and contaminate groundwater. Those regulations we...

  Related: #Energy Regulation, #Political Reversal
• 🇺🇸 Argentina approves Milei's bill that eases protections for glaciers despite environmental backlash — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Argentina's Congress on Thursday approved a bill promoted by libertarian President Javier Milei that eases protections on glaciers to facilitate investments in mining for metals - a move that environm...

  Related: #Economic Reform, #Legal Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Argentina MPs approve bill allowing mining in glaciers — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Thousands of people have demonstrated against the bill, which scientists and activists say threatens water resources.

  Related: #Economic Development, #Social Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Nation's first anti-data center referendum passes in Wisconsin — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  A Wisconsin city passed a referendum Tuesday targeting data center construction, requiring future large-scale projects that receive tax benefits to secure approval from local voters. Port Washington, ...

  Related: #Local Governance, #Technology Infrastructure
• 🇺🇸 Zeldin tells climate skeptics to 'celebrate vindication' after repeal of baseline climate rule — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change.

  Related: #Deregulation, #Political Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Trump’s policies on toxic chemicals fail all of us — including MAHA — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Americans might not agree on much right now, but they do agree on at least one thing: They don’t want toxic chemicals in their food, water, children’s toys and other everyday products.

  Related: #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 Long before Trump: How US policy has harmed the environment for decades — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Environment advocacy groups are suing the US government over climate change policy rollback.

  Related: #Historical Impact
• 🇬🇧 England must destine 7% of land to nature and renewables to hit green targets, data shows — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Government’s first published land use framework maps how land is used and how it can be adapted to meet changing needs</p><p>About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the si...

  Related: #Land Use, #Renewable Energy
• 🇺🇸 If you want to extract oil off our coast, then you should pay for the damage — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  'With the right amount, drilling off our coast would become too expensive and discourage this sort of folly,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Corporate Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Chile’s President Kast tosses out dozens of environmental protections — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Chilean Environment Ministry suspends 43 measures touching on issues such as pollution, emissions and national parks.

  Related: #Government Action
• 🇺🇸 Wisconsin Senate passes $133 million package to combat forever chemicals, sends bills to governor — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The Wisconsin state Senate has passed a $133 million package to combat contamination from forever chemicals

  Related: #Public Health
• 🇬🇧 Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Conservationists hope Murray Watt’s review of national marine parks will ‘right the wrongs’ of previous downgrade of protection</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/m...

  Related: #Marine Conservation
• 🇺🇸 Trump aims to loosen ethylene oxide standards — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump aims to loosen ethylene oxide standards The Trump administration proposed Friday to loosen rules surrounding emissions of a ca...

  Related: #Public Health
• 🇬🇧 Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands</p><p>Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods are off-limits to t...

  Related: #Public Access
• 🇺🇸 Trump admin sues California over vehicle emission, greenhouse gas rules — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  California's Advanced Clean Cars II regulations look to eliminate new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035.

  Related: #Federal-State Conflict
• 🇬🇧 EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over supreme court fight, agency records show — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Top US regulators met with Bill Anderson to discuss ‘supreme court action’ over glyphosate weed killer</p><p>Top US regulators met with Bill Anderson, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/...

  Related: #Regulatory Influence
• 🇺🇸 Don't let lobbyists win a liability shield for Big Oil — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Governments are fighting to hold oil giants like Exxon Mobil accountable for their well-documented efforts to deceive the public about climate change.

  Related: #Corporate Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Brian Joondeph’s Appointment to Air Pollution Advisory Board Draws Pushback — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Brian Joondeph, a Colorado-based ophthalmologist and political commentator, has not published peer-reviewed research on air pollution science.

  Related: #Political Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Green groups now fighting to stop technology that cuts CO2 emissions — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Environmental groups are scheming to block carbon-capture projects despite the technology's ability to combat climate change.

  Related: #Climate Technology
• 🇺🇸 Emma Wall, Betsy Hershey Talk U.S. Climate Activism in Adam McKay-Produced ‘Just Look Up’: ‘It’s No Coincidence Venezuela and Iran Are Oil-Producing Countries’ — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmakers Emma Wall and Betsy Hershey (“Guerrilla Habeas”) jumped on a life-changing Zoom call organized by a lauded host: Oscar-winning director Adam McKa...

  Related: #Climate Activism, #Documentary Filmmaking, #Political Influence
• 🇺🇸 If California is forced to allow oil extraction, it should at least impose a tax — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  'Imposing an oil severance tax, as other states do, could bring in approximately $1.5 billion annually to California’s coffers,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Economic Regulation
• 🇬🇧 Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross</p><p>Countries should look to rewild their land borders as a deterrence to ...

  Related: #Border Security
• 🇺🇸 New fire prevention bills are a science-based step in the right direction — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  'For years, we’ve poured money into backcountry fuel projects that look like action but don’t stop wind‑whipped embers from turning neighborhoods into disaster zones. This new legislative package is a...

  Related: #Wildfire Prevention
• 🇬🇧 How can we really protect Britain’s environment? — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Well-intentioned laws designed to safeguard nature frequently have the opposite effect</p><p>The importance of protecting nature is not up for debate. <a href="https://stateofnature.org.uk/wp-conte...

  Related: #Sustainability
• 🇬🇧 BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’</p><p>The self-styled “punk” beer company BrewDog sold its Highland estate for a knockdown pr...

  Related: #Corporate Strategy
• 🇺🇸 New York’s big bet on congestion relief is paying off — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  The results are transformative and undeniable.

  Related: #Urban Transportation
• 🇺🇸 They've nearly given up on climate — plastics will be next — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Like much that comes out of the UN, it is all a ruse.

  Related: #Public Engagement