Pollution

Keystone Pipeline Owners Agree to Pay $26 Million for Spill

"The owners of the Keystone Pipeline System entered into a settlement Friday with the Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas under which they agreed to pay more than $26 million in damages for a 2022 oil spill."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/13/2026

Before Reflecting Pool, Contractor Bungled Project On Tijuana River

"A year before Greenwater Services got a $1.7 million contract to clean the algae-infected Reflecting Pool, it had received another no-bid government contract to deploy at the trash-plagued Tijuana River."

Source: Washington Post, 07/13/2026

Enviros Challenge Trump DOE Order to Keep Florida Coal Plant Running

"The Trump administration is facing a new legal challenge over an emergency order keeping a Florida coal-fired power plant, which had been scheduled for retirement, in operation." "Advocacy groups said the order failed to establish an energy emergency. The Department of Energy partly attributed one to anticipated demand associated with data centers."

Source: Inside Climate News, 07/13/2026

China and US-Mexico Border Experienced Record Dust Storms in 2025: WMO

"Record-breaking sand and dust storms battered parts of China and the U.S.-Mexico border ​region during 2025, disrupting transport, damaging health and ‌the environment, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a new report on Friday."

Source: Reuters, 07/10/2026

Lax Oversight Of Hog CAFOs Harms Endangered Species, Study Finds

"Large concentrated hog farms that send manure contamination into local waterways not only impact human health but threaten the existence of more than a dozen endangered species, according to a new study."

Source: The New Lede, 07/10/2026

New York Sues 3M, DuPont And Other Companies Over Forever Chemicals

"New York’s attorney general sued several large chemical and agricultural companies on Thursday, alleging they knowingly sold harmful so-called forever chemicals used in cosmetics, non-stick cookware and other products."

Source: AP, 07/10/2026

EPA Joins DOJ’s Legal Defense of Musk’s xAI

"The Trump administration is working to correct an apparent mistake in its unusual petition to end an environmental lawsuit by the NAACP against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. Now, the Justice Department says, its motion is also backed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin."

Source: E&E News, 07/10/2026

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