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Trump, Moore feud expands to Potomac River sewage spill
Federal authorities will respond to the 300-plus-gallon sewage spill in the Potomac River, President Donald Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post where he blamed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Democrats for the spill.
“There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local ...Read more
Trump, Moore feud expands to Potomac River sewage spill
Federal authorities will respond to the 300-plus-gallon sewage spill in the Potomac River, President Donald Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post where he blamed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Democrats for the spill.
“There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local ...Read more
SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone tech
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to people familiar with the matter.
The entry of the two Musk companies — which he announced in early February would merge – into a new frontier of AI-enabled ...Read more
Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub
When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.
These soil microorganisms – Earth’s recyclers – liberate nutrients that will act as fertilizer once ...Read more
Pentagon is close to cutting ties with Anthropic, report says
Anthropic’s talks about extending a contract with the Pentagon are being held up over additional protections the artificial intelligence company wants to put on its Claude tool, a person familiar with the matter said.
Anthropic wants to put guardrails in place to stop Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or to develop ...Read more
Why EGLE issued air quality advisory for parts of southeast Michigan
DETROIT — The state environmental department has issued an air quality advisory for several Southeast Michigan counties just as the weather warms up due to higher concentrations of fine particle pollution in the air from snow thawing.
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said pollution levels are expected to range from ...Read more
What's that smell? 7,700 gallons of jet fuel spill into the James River.
An estimated 7,700 gallons of jet fuel spilled into the James River on Friday afternoon near Newport News Shipbuilding, according to officials.
The spill happened during a refueling operation involving the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which is nearing completion at the shipyard, according to a release from the city of Newport News.
...Read more
Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine's Day SpaceX launch
Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine's Day took a break from staring longingly into each other's eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southern California sky.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket carried 24 ...Read more
Trump's tax rules still unclear to US clean-energy industry
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s interim guidance on clean energy tax credits released Thursday offered some relief to the industry by laying out a manageable path for new projects. But, it still left investors uncertain.
The industry had been closely watching the long-awaited guidance, which spells out rules for calculating whether ...Read more
As a Colorado River deadline passes, reservoirs keep declining
The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River.
That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.
Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce ...Read more
Philly's snowpack reaches a 65-year milestone, and here's when it finally may disappear
PHILADELPHIA — You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak — in this case historically slow.
Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear — and in at least one way may well be unprecedented in the period of record dating to the late 19th century.
As of 7 a.m. Friday, ...Read more
NASA to let private company Vast visit space station for private mission in 2027
NASA has let Axiom Space make four visits to the International Space Station and last month awarded it the right for the fifth visit next year, but on Thursday the agency announced a new company would be allowed a private mission as well.
Vast, based in Long Beach, California, on track to build its own space station, has signed an order with ...Read more
Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans
The Trump administration on Thursday reversed the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, erasing a foundational piece of the country’s efforts to address climate change. California, with its ambitious goals for cutting emissions, immediately announced it will sue the ...Read more
Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026. It moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding, a formal determination that greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels, endanger public health and welfare. But the administration’...Read more
600 Florida green sea turtles stranded amid cold plunge
TAMPA, Fla. — Cold air and frigid waters have caused more than 600 young green sea turtles to wash ashore on Florida’s beaches this month — and more are turning up every day.
Rescuers have saved them from the sand on Treasure Island, Tarpon Springs, Crystal River and Clearwater. The turtles are juveniles, from 2 to 88 pounds, and the hope...Read more
NASA, SpaceX shoot for predawn Crew-12 launch with sonic boom possible
The Space Coast’s first human spaceflight of the year is on tap for early Friday morning as NASA and SpaceX aim to send up a mission to the International Space Station, and also bring back the rocket’s booster that could bring with it a sonic boom across Central Florida.
The launch of Crew-12 atop a Falcon 9 rocket is targeting liftoff at 5...Read more
EPA repeals endangerment finding, tailpipe emissions standards
WASHINGTON — In what President Donald Trump is calling the “single largest deregulatory action in American history,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said at a White House event Thursday that his agency would repeal the 2009 endangerment finding that underlies regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
The repeal also would invalidate any ...Read more
Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans
The Trump administration on Thursday reversed the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific assertion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, erasing a foundational piece of the country’s efforts to address climate change.
The repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding — a conclusion based on decades of science that ...Read more
Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly
Concrete is all around you – in the foundation of your home, the bridges you drive over, the sidewalks and buildings of cities. It is often described as the second-most used material by volume on Earth after water.
But the way concrete is made today also makes it a major contributor to climate change.
Portland cement, the ...Read more
ULA Vulcan launch suffers fiery booster issue but makes it to space, company says
United Launch Alliance suffered yet another fiery burn-through on one of its solid rocket boosters during a national security mission Thursday.
The Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 4:22 a.m. on the USSF-87 mission for the Space Force, ULA’s first launch of the year and only its ...Read more
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