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Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.
Summit Carbon Solutions spent years pitching its Midwest pipeline as a climate solution — capturing carbon dioxide from ethanol plants — but is now pivoting to fossil fuel use after eminent domain battles gridlocked the project across multiple states. The shift exposes a central tension in how carbon capture infrastructure gets financed and sold to the public. For landowners who resisted giving up their property rights for a green energy promise, the reversal raises pointed questions about the project's original intentions.
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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles
The Trump administration is invoking one of the most powerful and rarely used tools in environmental law, convening the so-called "God Squad" to potentially override Endangered Species Act protections for fossil fuel operations across the Gulf of Mexico. The seven-member cabinet-level panel has the authority to greenlight activities that would otherwise drive species toward extinction, framing the move as a national security imperative. At stake are populations of endangered whales and sea turtles whose survival could be legally subordinated to expanded offshore drilling.
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This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer
Wildfire activity across the United States has already exceeded 127 percent above the 10-year average in 2026, driven by one of the warmest and driest winters on record in the West. The National Interagency Fire Center data points to conditions ripe for an especially destructive fire season ahead. With fuels dried out early and ignitions already elevated, land managers and communities face a long summer on high alert.
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The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis
Earth has experienced dramatic climate shifts over its 4-billion-year history, but the current crisis stands apart in one critical way: the unprecedented speed at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Author Peter Brannen draws on deep geological time to explain why CO2 has always been the master variable controlling life, ice ages, and mass extinctions on this planet. Understanding that history makes today's trajectory not more comforting, but more alarming.
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DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
The Department of Government Efficiency has embedded staffers inside the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, working to loosen oversight rules and deliver financial relief to the nuclear industry. The move marks a dramatic expansion of DOGE's reach into one of the most technically sensitive regulatory bodies in the federal government. Critics warn that applying Silicon Valley's move-fast ethos to nuclear safety standards carries risks that software bugs simply don't.
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