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Climate Change News Tracker: Your Daily Source for Climate Change Updates

Stay informed with "Climate Change News Tracker," your go-to podcast for daily updates on climate change. Covering everything from melting ice caps and rising sea levels to extreme weather events, we provide comprehensive news and insights on the global climate crisis. Join us for expert interviews, in-depth analysis, and the latest developments in climate science. Subscribe now to stay ahead in understanding the changes affecting our planet.Copyright 2025 Inception Point Ai Política y Gobierno
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  • Costly Coal Comeback: Trump Administration's Fossil Fuel Agenda Comes at a Price for American Families

    Costly Coal Comeback: Trump Administration's Fossil Fuel Agenda Comes at a Price for American Families
    Feb 18 2026
    In the United States, the Trump administration has intensified efforts to bolster the coal industry amid ongoing climate challenges. According to the League of Conservation Voters, keeping Michigan's J.H. Campbell coal plant open past its planned retirement in May 2025 has now cost ratepayers 135 million dollars, with daily expenses passed on in hundreds of thousands of dollars. This stems from administration directives forcing the plant to continue operations despite its inefficiency.

    President Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense to source energy from costly, dirty coal plants, while the Department of Energy allocated over 175 million dollars to outdated coal facilities in Republican-led states. League of Conservation Voters Vice President Matthew Davis noted that coal has the highest costs and worst reliability among energy sources, with twice as many unplanned shutdowns as wind power, ultimately raising energy prices for American families.

    In a major setback, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the landmark 2009 Endangerment Finding, which established greenhouse gas emissions as harmful to public health and welfare, forming the basis for federal limits on cars, trucks, power plants, and other emitters. This move, criticized as science denial, underpins rollbacks of vehicle pollution standards, mercury and air toxics rules, and exposes communities to more air pollution, heart disease, strokes, asthma, and premature deaths.

    The Environmental Protection Agency also released a rule delaying cleanup of millions of tons of toxic coal ash, including heavy metals, carcinogens, and neurotoxins, until 2031, risking further water contamination. Earthjustice Senior Counsel Lisa Evans warned that this allows polluters to continue harming water sources and health.

    Additionally, the administration halted work on five offshore wind projects, clawed back 135 million dollars in electric vehicle charging funds for California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota, and rolled back protections for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine Monument, endangering its fragile ecosystem from commercial fishing.

    Environmental groups, including Clean Wisconsin, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, filed lawsuits on February 18, 2026, challenging these repeals as illegal, highlighting worsening impacts like record heat, wildfire smoke, and extreme weather in places such as Wisconsin and South Texas.

    These actions reveal an emerging pattern of prioritizing fossil fuels over clean energy transitions, delaying pollution controls, and reversing climate safeguards, even as global events like 2026 Climate Weeks in South Korea and Azerbaijan aim to accelerate Paris Agreement implementation.

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  • Deregulatory Chaos: Trump Repeals Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards, Igniting Nationwide Backlash

    Deregulatory Chaos: Trump Repeals Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards, Igniting Nationwide Backlash
    Feb 14 2026
    The Trump administration announced on Thursday its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, a key scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, according to the Environmental Protection Agency and Earth.Org reports. This move, hailed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as the single largest deregulatory action in United States history, eliminates federal greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and engines from model years 2012 through 2027 and beyond. Zeldin stated it saves American taxpayers over 1.3 trillion dollars by removing regulations tied to what he called the Holy Grail of the climate change religion, including mandates pushing electric vehicles that raised costs for families and businesses. The EPA argued that even if the United States eliminated all vehicle emissions, it would have no material impact on global climate through 2100, and that the Clean Air Act lacks authority for such standards.

    Environmental groups, scientists, and dozens of politicians swiftly condemned the repeal as unlawful, warning it risks lives by shifting pollution costs to families and communities, with threats of legal challenges emerging nationwide. Earth.Org highlighted reactions pouring in from across the United States, underscoring a deepening policy divide.

    In response, states are stepping up. California Governor Gavin Newsom, at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, reinforced climate partnerships, co-chairing the bipartisan United States Climate Alliance of 24 governors and America Is All In coalition, while signing wildfire prevention deals with Brazil's Pará state. California has surged battery storage to nearly 17,000 megawatts, a 2,100 percent increase, adding over 30,000 megawatts to its grid toward 100 percent clean electricity by 2045, per the governor's office.

    Washington state faces pressure to intensify efforts as federal support wanes, with Oregon Public Broadcasting noting the EPA's action erases tools to combat vehicle pollution amid rising local climate threats.

    Globally, January 2026 marked the fifth warmest on record at 12.95 degrees Celsius, 1.47 degrees above pre-industrial levels, per Earth.Org, blending Europe's coldest January since 2010 and North America's chills to minus 43 degrees Fahrenheit with scorching Southern Hemisphere heat fueling deadly wildfires in Chile and Argentina's Patagonia. A World Weather Attribution study linked those blazes, which destroyed thousands of homes amid drought, 38-degree Celsius heat, and 40 to 50 kilometer per hour winds, directly to climate change, revealing patterns of amplified extremes. Heavy rains triggered floods and landslides in southeastern Africa, Indonesia, New Zealand, Europe, and Mozambique, claiming dozens of lives and signaling erratic weather shifts.

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  • Trump Administration Rolls Back US Climate Policies, Sparking Global Outcry

    Trump Administration Rolls Back US Climate Policies, Sparking Global Outcry
    Feb 11 2026
    In the first ten days of 2026, the Trump administration has accelerated its rollback of United States climate progress, drawing sharp criticism amid intensifying global warming threats. Euronews reports that on February 12, the Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, a key Obama-era declaration that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. This move eliminates the scientific foundation for federal regulations on heat-trapping emissions, with Earthjustice president Abigail Dillen calling it an abandonment of responsibility as extreme weather hits harder each year. Politico confirms the EPA's action as its boldest strike yet against climate rules, despite mounting research from bodies like the National Academies of Sciences linking greenhouse gases to current disasters.

    Earlier, in late January, a severe winter storm battered much of the United States, killing at least seven people, blacking out thousands of homes, and canceling thousands of flights across forty states. President Trump seized on the event via Truth Social, questioning global warming with the post, Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 states. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING? Associated Press notes that over a dozen scientists refuted this, explaining that cold snaps occur in a warming world, distinguishing local weather from long-term planetary trends, where much of the globe remains warmer than average.

    Legal setbacks continue to highlight tensions. Earth.Org details a US District Court ruling that the administration violated federal law by secretly forming a climate skeptic panel to produce a contentious global warming report, breaching the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act. Separately, on January 11, a federal judge deemed illegal the cancellation of 7.6 billion dollars in clean energy grants for projects in sixteen Kamala Harris-voting states, including battery plants and grid upgrades, violating constitutional equal protection.

    These actions signal a pattern of retreat from climate science and international commitments, even as the United States, the second-largest annual emitter, faces escalating risks. Carbon Brief reports negotiators from seven Colorado River basin states met in Washington DC ahead of a February 14 deadline to manage reservoirs strained by drought, underscoring water scarcity amid broader shifts. Worldwide, a Climate and Cryosphere conference opens February 9 in Wellington, New Zealand, to address melting ice, polar amplification, and adaptation, reflecting urgent scientific focus. Critics like the Center for International Environmental Law warn that such US steps undermine global efforts against rising seas and deadly disasters.

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