Water & Oceans

DHS Waives 29 Environmental Laws for Border Barriers Along Big Bend

"Today, under authority of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Real ID Act, the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin waived 29 environmental and conservation laws in the Big Bend Sector."

Source: Our Public Lands & Waters, 05/18/2026

"Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says"

"Florida plans to shut down the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz as soon as early June, according to a news report."

Source: Inside Climate News, 05/15/2026

Budd-Falen’s Ex-Clients Wanted Bison Off Public Land. Burgum Intervened.

"In administrative cases before DOI, Interior Secretary Burgum intervened to make policy changes that involved or benefited the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies."

Source: Public Domain, 05/15/2026

Trump EPA Aims To Roll Back Limits On Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to roll back limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers through polluted groundwater, saying a three-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking."

Source: AP, 05/15/2026

"They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)"

"In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches and tree harvesters were whirring in an effort to restore a waterlogged, mosquito-infested ecosystem that was drained in the Soviet era. The reason is twofold: to help the climate and to defend the country from invasion."

Source: New York Times, 05/14/2026

"Something Startling Is Happening In The Gulf Of Mexico"

"Climate change is causing oceans worldwide to warm. But that year, summertime sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico began heating up at about twice the rate seen in the global oceans."

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/14/2026

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