"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."
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Title: Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration's 'God Squad' to Court
Author: Wyatt Myskow
Publication: Inside Climate News
April 16, 2026
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#USA #Climate #Courts #FossilFuels #Animals
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042026/environmental-groups-sue-trump-god-squad/
Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration’s ‘God Squad’ to Court - Inside Climate News

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.

Inside Climate News
Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show

Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

Conservation news
Report: Leading banks pledged $8.7trn to fossil fuels since 2016

Since the Paris Agreement was signed, the world's 65 largest banks have financed almost $9 trn in oil, gas and coal operations, with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo among the biggest financiers.

edie
Breaking free from fossil fuels is urgent but hard – Colombia shows why

Colombia expanded renewables under Gustavo Petro, but struggled to reduce its dependence on oil, gas and coal.

The Conversation

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116749017625622454

Ich weiß auch nicht, warum ich da so gar kein Mitleid mit den Russen auf der Krim habe 😏
#fossilfuels #slavaukraini

@JustinDerrick An overextended #duopoly is built to eventually cause a massive vacuum, between the two poles. Key to this effects is cronly politicians writing policy, for the #TechBros and #FossilFuels #oligarchs, sacrificing future generations for front-loading #Capitalism #greed while overlapping #ecosystems, acclerate in collapse.

Worse, #ClimateCrisis puts us in jeopardy of another #MassExtinction.

Replace abusive power with ethical #scientists.

@skykiss Quite convenient to have all the major #TechBros align with the current US administration, in directing trillions of taxpayer dollars toward the vacuum they led in creating in Communist countries, like Russia/Soviet Union. Interject addictive tech like cell phones and ultra-processed foods, and you get increasingly subservient parasitism in the name of #Capitalism #profit.

If that were a minor percentage of healthier partnerships, the equation would be more sustainable. But when you combine #FossilFuels #greed with TechBros, and increasing ignorance, then you get a recipe for disaster that just happens to coincide with #ClimateCrisis and overlapping ecosystems that are just-too-much-to-shoulder.

The US is collapsing, while its wealthiest are peaking in power.

This is what #AbuseOfPower looks like, at its broadest scale. And if you don't band together to replace the abusers, you are the ultimate losers.

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal

Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.

Grist

US campaigner warns #Scotland about #AI #data centre boom

“You guys are really vulnerable, and you’re vulnerable because you have

- #Water resources
- #Rural land
- #Renewable #energy

This industry will not only suck all of that, but then they’re going to have to rely on fossil fuel. That’s the reality.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26190746.us-campaigner-warns-scotland-ai-data-centre-boom/

#BigData #greed #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #PeopleNotProfits #CO2 #FossilFuels #pollution #WaterShortage

US campaigner warns Scotland about AI data centre boom

A PROMINENT campaigner in the US has warned Scotland about the country’s planned AI data centre boom ...

The National
"Almost two thirds of all the energy we dig up is wasted before it does a single thing of value, a loss RMI puts at more than $4.6 trillion a year, or roughly $600 for every person on Earth.”
#FossilFuels https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/13/clean-energy-investments-surge-but-that-is-only-part-of-the-story/
Clean Energy Investments Surge, But That Is Only Part Of The Story - CleanTechnica

Ingmar Rentzhog of We Don't Have Time wrote recently that investors have already begun the transition to clean energy.

CleanTechnica