Courts blocked Trump's executive orders against offshore wind. So his administration started buying developers out — nearly $4 billion so far. The Gulf's only federal wind project is now dead.
The Sierra Club and CHIPS Communities United sued the EPA over approvals for two new semiconductor chemicals. The agency's own consent orders identify acute toxicity, genetic toxicity and reproductive harm, name acute lethality as the primary concern for the chemical class, and say there are insufficient data to assess the risk — and the chemicals' identities are a trade secret.
Spectrum News reviewed 12 years of disclosures: Whatley's firm took $3.5 million, including $1.2 million from energy clients. His campaign bio skips the entire career.
Between August 6 and August 10, Vince Fong, Gary Palmer, August Pfluger, James Gallagher and Jay Obernolte each filed a Congressional Review Act resolution killing an EPA decision on California — cars, lawn mowers, harbor boats, and ships idling at the dock.
The Forest Service asked the public what it thought about ending roadless protections on 58.8 million acres. More than 99% of the comments said no. Hageman's H.R. 7695 would write the repeal into law and bar any future administration from restoring it — including on 3.3 million acres of Wyoming.
Colstrip Unit 4 has the highest toxic particulate emission rate of any coal-fired unit in the country, and Colstrip is the only plant of its kind without modern filters. Downing says the required technology isn't commercially viable. It's been on the market for 50 years.
Simpson's FY27 Interior spending bill strips federal protection from gray wolves and from grizzlies in two ecosystems, blocks grizzly recovery in two more, blocks wolverine protections, and cuts Endangered Species Act listing money by nearly half — with judicial review barred on the delistings so nobody can challenge them in court.
Word for word, H.R. 2988 and H.R. 5339 carry the identical official title. In 2024 Allen called his 401(k) bill the Protecting Americans' Investments from Woke Policies Act. In 2026 it became the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act.
In January, Guthrie's committee released a draft rewrite of the nation's toxic chemicals law, and the American Chemistry Council cheered. In May, the ACC filed an $80,276 independent expenditure for TV ads running in his district.
