Jonathan R. Morris is a doctoral student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, an organizer with the Climate Action Movement, and a former organizer with DivestInvest at U-M.
There is a dramatic slowdown in the previously accelerating pace of coal plant retirements because utility companies are responding to a rise in electricity demand from data centers and other sources.
A planned Earth Day rollback of wildlife protections collapsed under public pressure and internal divisions as Republicans continued pursuing cuts to nutrition programs alongside rising war spending.