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U.S. environmental nonprofit that uses litigation, science and advocacy to protect endangered species, wildlands and climate policy.
Rainmaker says its drones made 19 million gallons of water in three hours over Homer, Alaska, in a run residents learned about afterwards. The criticism that followed concerns two things an operator controls: notice and ground monitoring.
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Judge Kathleen Cardone halted border-wall building across Texas's 500-mile Big Bend region, one part of the administration's $46 billion programme. Contractors there now wait on a merits ruling, and upriver and downriver of the park they also wait on landowners who have not granted access.
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Five environmental groups asked a federal appeals court to review the Trump administration's cut of 2031 fuel economy targets to 34.9 mpg from a projected 50.4. Automaker and fleet plans built on the looser target now depend on a rule the petitioners want stopped.
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NHTSA projects the Trump administration's final fuel economy rule will leave the 2031 fleet average at 34.9 mpg, down from 50.4 mpg under Biden-era rules. For automakers, the harder question is how long the lower target lasts, and a Kelley Blue Book editor gives it two to three years.
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The proposal would open more than 44 million acres of national forest to roads and logging on a wildfire-risk argument that published ignition studies do not support.
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The agency is finalizing its repeal of the Biden-era greenhouse gas rules for power plants and proposing to eliminate what remains, opening a 45-day comment window as US electricity demand climbs again.
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The extraordinary-relief route two environmental groups chose bought them about a month of paused proceedings at New Mexico's air and water agencies, and it ends with the air permit still undecided before a hearing officer the state has yet to name.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service has rewritten what counts as killing a protected animal under the 1973 law, and the new test is whether someone meant to do it. The Interior Department confirmed the guidance to AFP.
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The agency says it is only handing minor-source permitting back to the states, and for a siting team the practical effect is that opposition arrives later, in court and at the ballot box, instead of in a hearing room.
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Oracle, Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft plan more than $700bn of US data centers this year, roughly $58bn a month, and against that run rate a repealed state tax break costs less than two quarters of permitting delay.
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