Trump administration scales back climate and ocean monitoring while red states lead on renewable energy, as environmental safeguards face federal dismantling and legal challenges.

Trump administration invokes wartime Defense Production Act to allocate $700 million to coal industry, drawing criticism for prioritizing fossil fuels over climate goals and renewable energy transition.

Trump officials plan to dismantle the $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a critical deep-sea monitoring network that has provided essential climate and marine ecosystem data for decades.

Seven U.S. states sued the Trump administration over a $1 billion deal to terminate a major offshore wind lease off New York's coast, arguing the agreement violates federal law.

Republican-led states, particularly Texas, are expanding renewable energy capabilities at faster rates than Democratic-led California and New York, which are weakening their climate policies.

California city Monterey Park becomes first U.S. municipality to have residents vote on permanently banning datacenters, addressing concerns over energy consumption and environmental impact.

Colorado investigation reveals state regulators allowed oil companies a $1 billion pass on cleanup bonds despite a backlog of thousands of abandoned drill sites requiring decades to remediate.

First case of flesh-eating screwworm fly confirmed in Texas cattle in six decades, posing significant threat to U.S. livestock industry and requiring urgent biosecurity response.

Urban light pollution is worsening allergies by prompting plants to shed pollen longer and more intensely, according to new environmental research on human health impacts.

Canada approves plan to relocate 30 beluga whales from embattled Marineland to sanctuaries in Spain and across the U.S., preventing threatened euthanization of captive marine mammals.

NASA decommissions MAVEN spacecraft after 11+ years of continuous Mars orbit operations, ending a significant source of atmospheric and climate data collection from the Red Planet.