The J.H. Campbell coal plant in Bill Huizenga's district was supposed to close in May 2025. Trump's Energy Department kept ordering it open, at a cost Consumers Energy puts at $259 million. Huizenga blamed Michigan Democrats.
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The Bureau of Land Management asked its state directors to identify public land 'ripe for data center development' and gave them three days. It has shed nearly half its workforce under Trump, one state reported 50% vacancies in the offices that would do the reviews, and the administration is proposing further cuts while telling the bureau to refocus on AI.
A draft rule seen by ProPublica would drastically weaken leak inspections and equipment requirements at more than 700,000 low-producing wells, and kill a program built to track massive methane releases. It would save oil companies $42 billion. The EPA published no estimate of what it costs everyone else.
Trump ordered Interior to start stripping gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protection. Tiffany, who has spent five years trying to legislate the same thing, cheered. Wisconsin's own 2021 hunt blew past its quota by 99 wolves and the state couldn't stop it.
Garrity's whole pitch for governor is her 34 years in business at Global Tungsten & Powders. Spotlight PA found that during her years as a director there, the Bradford County plant shed roughly half its workforce while she helped run the company's facility in the Czech Republic.
On June 30, 2026, the EPA cleared trifludimoxazin — a PFAS weedkiller that produced thyroid tumors and liver damage in animal studies — for use on staple crops including corn, wheat, soybeans and apples. Three environmental groups sued, saying the agency never fully assessed the risk.
The HON rule covered about 220 petrochemical plants and six of the worst chemicals they emit. All nine of the Biden EPA's air-toxics rules have been or are now being rescinded, revised, or reconsidered, and a rewrite all but certain to weaken the HON rule is due this fall.
The EPA plans to eliminate the federal requirement that states notify the public and take comment when industrial air-pollution permits are filed. It has also proposed letting developers start building data centers before permits are approved.
