Days after voters across the country rejected data centers, Shelley Moore Capito's bill to speed up energy projects is heading for a Senate vote. The Natural Resources Defense Council says it would weaken water protections, tie the hands of courts and could leave taxpayers paying companies.
On October 30, the EPA ended a 20-plus-year effort to develop ways to measure air pollution from factory farms. Research ties air pollution from animal-based food production to nearly 12,700 U.S. deaths a year. The pork lobby, which pushed for the move, cheered it.
The Trump administration is building a second border wall across Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. An 89-year-old Hia-Ced O'odham elder warned it would disturb her ancestors' graves. Fifteen days later, Native American remains turned up in soil overturned by the wall's contractors. Trump's first administration had already waived the law that protects those graves at Organ Pipe.
Honduran industrialist Lenir Pérez wrote a $100,000 check to Maria Elvira Salazar's joint fundraising committee this year — tied for the most of any donor — while he faces charges in Honduras over an iron-oxide mine in a protected national park. Salazar, who chairs the House subcommittee that covers Latin America, won't say what they discussed when he hosted her at his Florida estate.
Dan Sullivan backed the PFAS Act for firefighters, then cosponsored three bills shielding polluters from PFAS lawsuits and secured the defense-bill change ending the ban on burning PFAS. His family's company, RPM, has faced PFAS litigation.
John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would pick Michigan's environmental and farm regulators.
PolitiFact rated Byron Donalds's offshore-drilling attack on David Jolly Mostly False: the $5 million was his old firm's total billings for every client, the drilling client paid $30,000, and in Congress Jolly introduced a bill to extend Florida's drilling ban.
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Carol Miller is begging Washington for $250 million to fix a public health emergency in her own district.
A federal judge and then a federal appeals court found the federal approval of Florida's state-run wetlands permitting program violated the Endangered Species Act. H.R. 9017, sponsored by Byron Donalds and cosponsored by six more Florida Republicans we track, would declare Florida in compliance and hand the rubber stamp back. Aaron Bean tried the same thing in 2025.