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The Endangered Species Committee, known as the God Squad, issued a rare exemption from compliance with the Endangered Species Act for oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its decision to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from complying with the Endangered Species Act, a move they say threatens both the coastline region and the law designed to protect threatened plants and animals.

Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration’s ‘God Squad’ to Court

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‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

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The lawsuit alleges the county has known since at least 2023 that the landfill is leaching PFAS, a family of forever chemicals, into drinking water.

This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News.

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

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Scientists Warn of Summer Heat Spikes as Global Warming Edges Toward 2C

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Researchers say fossil fuel burning and other human activities caused nearly all the rapid warming of the past decade.

Former federal climate experts warn that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations hit a record high in May and that the monthly average global temperature this summer could rise as much as 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial benchmark used to measure the heating from greenhouse gases.

Scientists Warn of Summer Heat Spikes as Global Warming Edges Toward 2C

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A Sloth Exhibitor Shut Down by New York Wants a Florida Comeback—and Florida Licensed Him

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Larry Wallach’s commercial exotic animal business was shuttered by New York courts and federal regulators declined his application to exhibit animals. Now he’s pitching a new sloth encounter business in Florida.

An exotic animal exhibitor whose sloth-encounters business was shuttered by New York courts is attempting to relaunch his operations in Florida, right as the state grapples with the fallout from sloth deaths at a different tourist attraction.

A Sloth Exhibitor Shut Down by New York Wants a Florida Comeback—and Florida Licensed Him

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