Trump Administration

After being paused since January 2025, the Department of Energy has committed to funding a new rebate program designed to save residents money on home energy projects.

Pressure to defund renewable energy projects is coming from the Trump administration and from grassroots groups.

Conservation and historical groups sued as the Trump administration targeted hundreds of exhibits on climate change, civil rights and diverse communities.

Most of the 500 comments submitted from Grand Teton and Yellowstone call for increased federal support and ask for more Indigenous history. None reported signs with ‘disparaging’ history.

The microreactor from Antares, a private nuclear technology company, had a successful nuclear fission reaction for the first time at Idaho National Lab. National officials dubbed it ‘historic.'

Coal mines in New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming could go to revived coal plants and be exported through a new port in California.

Many visitors objected to what they saw as an attempt to downplay difficult chapters of American history.

The decision will delay attempts to break up a center often called the “mothership” of climate science.

The federal government shifts away from workplace inspections. Meanwhile some states have their own workplace rules to address heat.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the approximately 1,000-year-old geoglyph in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was disturbed by border wall contractors nearly two weeks ago.