Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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Judge determines Flint residents can sue US government for water crisis

“The EPA was well aware that the Flint River was highly corrosive and posed a significant danger of lead leaching” into residents’ homes.

In ruling on coal mining, federal judge issues latest rebuke of...

The decision is just the latest defeat of Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's attempts to curb emissions from the coal industry and other fossil fuel businesses, ignoring public opinion and scientists who agree that fossil fuel extraction is contributing to the rapid warming of the planet.

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USPS delivery trucks. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, one of the low-lying Pacific nations facing rising seas as the 1.5°C target slips away. Photo: mrlins, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What...

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
National Guard troops. Photo: Sgt. Skyler Schendt (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

150 groups back think tank targeted by Trump’s $5 billion lawsuit threat

Trump's attorney gave the nonprofit four days to retract a report finding no crime-reduction effect from military deployments, or face a lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages.
A Mojave desert tortoise, a species opponents said the data center project threatened. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Federal panel halts first data center planned for US public land

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.
Taiwan's Central Mountain Range, home to the Bunun and other Indigenous communities. Photo: Lord Koxinga, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Displaced by a typhoon, Taiwan’s Bunun people fear for the future of their culture

Nestled high on a mountain slope in southern Taiwan, Tengjhih was a key settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people. Today, however, little remains but memories of the hamlet.  Wild grass sprouts around abandoned houses. Stray dogs have made the empty streets their territory.