The Supreme Court this week reshaped how the federal government thinks about fossil fuel infrastructure. While environmental groups frequently describe projects ranging from coal mines to pipelines as “carbon bombs,” the high court says that may not be the case — finding the projects themselves are not responsible for the upstream or downstream pollution for...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was taken to a Washington-area hospital Wednesday after becoming lightheaded at the Senate gym during the morning. Schumer was treated for dehydration, according to a spokesperson for the Democratic leader, and returned to the Capitol for work. “Leader Schumer was at the Senate gym this morning and got lightheaded,”...
The Trump administration and Florida leaders are moving forward with a plan to build a detention facility on a remote site in the Everglades to hold undocumented migrants awaiting deportation, with the facility expected to cost $450 million a year.
House Republicans early Wednesday morning advanced a portion of their budget reconciliation bill that seeks to bolster fossil fuel production and mining on public lands while undercutting environmental reviews. The legislation passed through a House Natural Resources Committee markup in a mostly party-line vote of 26-17, with Rep. Adam Gray (D-Calif.) joining Republicans in favor....
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will be subject to substantial cuts from their Colorado River allocations for the third year in a row, the Bureau of Reclamation announced Friday. The agency made these determinations in its August 2025 24-month study, which provides an outlook on hydrological conditions and projected operations for the basin’s two biggest reservoirs: Lake...
The Trump administration is opening a national marine monument to commercial fishing, it announced Thursday. The White House issued an executive order that allows for commercial fishing within the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a nearly 500,000 square mile area — double the size of the state of Texas — in the central Pacific Ocean. ...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday halted a California law requiring companies to disclose the risks that climate change poses to their business. The Ninth Circuit issued a motion holding up the enforcement of California’s Senate Bill 261 while the case against it plays out. That law would have required companies to prepare a report on their climate-related financial...
President Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela on Tuesday, continuing his escalations against the Latin American country and its leader, Nicolás Maduro. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Maduro’s “illegitimate” regime is using oil to “finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping,” designating the...
This superb style of fried chicken, found in southeastern Indiana, relies on heavy use of black pepper. My version stays true to the fried chicken at Wagner’s Village Inn, a bar and restaurant in Oldenburg, Indiana, where the cooks use the old-school method of skillet-frying in lard.
Kasam sabi—pleasantly tangy and salty fermented mustard greens—is commonly eaten as a side dish with rice or combined with meats on the hot and humid island of Borneo.
