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Author: Molly Taft

Posted on November 26, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals

The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
Posted on November 17, 2025

Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help.
Posted on November 14, 2025

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived

A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
Posted on November 10, 2025

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
Posted on October 28, 2025

Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified

The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built.
Posted on October 22, 2025

New Report Finds Efforts to Slow Climate Change Are Working—Just Not Fast Enough

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.
Posted on October 2, 2025

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.
Posted on October 1, 2025

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.
Posted on September 17, 2025

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed.
Posted on September 15, 2025

MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

The White House’s new Make America Healthy Again strategy makes some asks of the EPA—but critics say the agency is too industry-friendly to make a difference.

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