A Sept. 14 memo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik tells agency staff that loggers, developers and anyone else can kill endangered animals without breaking the law, as long as killing them wasn't the point.
Lee Zeldin's EPA canceled Solar for All in August 2025, calling it a 'boondoggle.' On September 18, a federal judge ruled the agency had no legal authority to do it and that Congress clearly meant for the money to keep flowing. The EPA says it may appeal.
Before Jim Pillen recommended lobbyist Julie Bushell for a $208,333-a-month no-bid contract, she was pushing lawmakers to fund her company's nitrate sensors. The state's top environmental official warned Pillen's chief of staff the technology was unproven. The lawmaker carrying the bill says he never saw the warning.
A new tracker from States United and Grant Witness counts $177 billion in grants the Trump administration has cancelled, frozen or slowed since 2025 — $58.9 billion in health, $36.6 billion in food aid, $29.8 billion in disaster relief. Texas lost more than any state but California.
In June, 19 Republicans in Congress signed a letter urging the EPA to add mifepristone to its list of possible water contaminants. On September 9 the EPA announced a drinking-water study that includes the two abortion drugs. Environmental health experts say there's no scientific evidence abortion medication harms the environment or people — and five days later, the EPA announced it is scrapping carbon limits on power plants.
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Power plants that burn coal, gas and oil put out about a quarter of all the climate pollution in the United States.
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MAGA Republican Bill Huizenga claims he wants to keep your utility bills from going through the roof.
Biden's EPA estimated the power plant carbon rules would prevent up to 1,200 early deaths and 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms in 2035 alone. On September 14, Lee Zeldin announced they're gone. Fifteen Republicans we track cheered the repeal in the EPA's own press release; four signed a letter asking the EPA to hurry up.
The J.H. Campbell coal plant in Bill Huizenga's district was supposed to close in May 2025. Trump's Energy Department kept ordering it open, at a cost Consumers Energy puts at $259 million. Huizenga blamed Michigan Democrats.