Mike Lux is the founder and board president of American Family Voices, a progressive nonprofit advocating for working- and middle-class families on pocket-book economic issues.
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.