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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants, according to multiple media reports. The repeal would complete the Trump administration’s elimination of climate policies enacted under the Obama and Biden administrations, according to The New York Times [1]. The action could prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the report stated [1].

Amazon is building a natural gas plant in Pecos County, Texas that could become the nation’s largest single source of carbon emissions. The facility will use 35 turbines to generate more than 7 gigawatts, surpassing the Grand Coulee Dam’s output. Meta has walked away from its RE100 renewable energy pledge while funding ten gas plants for its Louisiana data center. Researchers found a wind, solar and battery-only grid would cost seven times more and require far more land than gas and nuclear.

An article published Sept. 11, 2026, by Watts Up With That? examines what it describes as a shift in environmental priorities away from traditional conservation concerns and toward a dominant focus on climate change. According to the article, carbon dioxide is beneficial for plants, and the climate change narrative is misleading. The piece further states that this narrative has been used to restrict domestic energy production.

A meteorologist is questioning whether the summer of 2026 was truly the hottest on record in the United States, according to a Sept. 11, 2026, report published by Climate Depot [1]. The claim follows statements from federal agencies that the summer set a national heat record, a conclusion that has been reported by major news outlets including CBS News, CNN, and USA Today [1].

Maryland electricity bills have jumped 50.9% over five years, reaching 24% above the national average. Governor Wes Moore blames utility profiteering and data center demand, while critics point to state decarbonization mandates. Climate Solutions Now Act and RGGI carbon fees have pushed fossil fuel plants toward closure, forcing Maryland to import 43% of its power. A new scorecard from the Maryland Affordability Project found five of seven recent energy bills raised costs for ratepayers.

Trump administration finalized Endangered Species Act reforms in July, narrowing habitat protections while critics call it a rollback. NextEra subsidiary ESI Energy paid over $8 million and got five years probation for killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles at its wind facilities. Federal incidental-take permits let wind operators legally injure or kill protected eagles as a routine cost of turbine operation.

Nepal’s climate change chief requested $5 billion in disaster aid from a UN climate fund after a landslide and flood killed more than 1,100 people Satellite images show a bedrock collapse beneath a glacier triggered the disaster, not warming-driven glacial melt Geomorphologists Kristen Cook and Dan Shugar say they have not established climate warming as the cause of the collapse Geologists note that tectonic plate collisions naturally fracture mountainsides in regions like the Himalayas,...

Chinese firm Niutech Technology Group announced a contract with an anonymous global energy company to construct a large-scale facility that will convert plastic waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The project, revealed in a company press release, involves building an industrial continuous waste plastic pyrolysis production line with an annual capacity of 10,000 to 50,000 tons.

Eliminating all U.S. fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions would lower global temperatures by just 0.24°C by 2100, even under alarmist assumptions. State-level temperature reductions are too small to measure, with no state reaching even 0.031°C of avoided warming. NASA data confirms carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere reflects heat back into space, cooling rather than warming. Real-world physics shows CO2’s warming effect diminishes as concentrations rise, with saturation limiting further impact.

The catastrophic glacier collapse in Nepal’s Langtang valley was caused by bedrock failure, a geological process, not directly linked to climate change according to geologists. The disaster killed hundreds and destroyed infrastructure within minutes, with floodwaters traveling from Tibet into Nepal in just 26 minutes. Media outlets including The New York Times prematurely attributed the tragedy to climate change despite ongoing scientific uncertainty about the exact cause.