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The US EPA is the federal agency that writes and enforces regulations on air and water quality, pollution limits, and emissions standards for industry.
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Supreme Court justices hear Boulder's suit against ExxonMobil and Suncor on Monday, a case that could settle dozens of similar local climate claims. At issue for producers is whether climate costs get fought jurisdiction by jurisdiction in state courts or left to federal regulators.
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EPA water chief Jess Kramer says attacks on US water utilities have risen several fold, citing unchanged passwords and system details left online. EPA keeps finding basic weak points, and officials say many utilities lack the staff and investment to close them.
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The FBI and EPA's advisory I-073026-PSA blames a water-sector campaign across at least seven states on MicroLogix controllers left reachable on the open internet. The remedy they describe is network placement.
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Ohio lawmakers passed a 90-day fuel tax holiday that lifts the 47-cent diesel tax, bringing relief to about a third of U.S. states, per an AP review. Each state sets its own terms and end dates, so a multi-state fleet's fuel budget can now change within weeks.
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Ten NASA-funded monitors logged three years of black carbon in Ethiopia's capital. The peaks track rush hour and holidays, which is not what an annual average measures.
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Five US agencies report attackers scanning for exposed S7 PLCs and using a public library to read and write data blocks. The mitigation list reads like a commissioning checklist.
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Trump is telling communities that refusing data centers will leave them poor, while Abbott and Pillen have paused approvals in their own states. That gap is where the schedule risk on a project now sits.
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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 governor's office raised an Iranian-backed campaign against drinking water systems and would not say whether the two Colorado utilities hit in late August were part of it. Both remain unnamed.
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Joint advisory AA26-231A describes threat actors feeding internet-scan results into AI tools that emit working python-snap7 clients against Siemens S7 controllers. Siemens says the weakness is configuration, not a new vulnerability.
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A Singapore team's solar cell ran for more than 72 hours on seawater and pulled hydrazine down to 0.5 parts per billion. The buyer for a unit like that is a site already paying to destroy the stuff.
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Tanager-1 logged 1,097 methane plumes across the Permian, Appalachian and Haynesville basins between January 2025 and June 2026, and researchers matched about a third of them to a named operator using public Carbon Mapper data.
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The updated XC60 and XC90 carry a 41.2 kWh pack with 37.9 kWh usable, good for a preliminary 78 electric miles, and Volvo is counting on hybrid demand to help fund its coming pure EVs.
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A study of 37,368 plants and 5,304 U.S. House elections from 1991 to 2016 finds abatement spending 47% higher in narrowly Democratic districts, with multi-plant firms letting emissions rise at their facilities elsewhere.
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The Environmental Protection Network says 17 of those actions name AI or data centers outright, and the remedy it proposes is a voluntary pledge for the White House to sign. The health figures it cites come from academic modelling.
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A DRI team compared Reno's smoke-affected autumn of 2020 with the smoke-free months of 2019 and found every pollutant class elevated, including more than 100 toxic compounds that fall outside routine air monitoring.
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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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Ten economists writing in Science trace the swing between the Biden and Trump vehicle rules to two contested parameters, one of which the 2026 analysis appears to use in two incompatible ways at once.
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Making minor-source disclosure voluntary hands the call to states and hides the permit-splitting that turned Northern Virginia into a 27-gigawatt diesel fleet.
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Trump says towns that refuse data centers are making a mistake. The headline jobs figure for OpenAI's Ohio campus is 35,000 construction roles and about 2,500 permanent ones.
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