All Democratic senators oppose EPA ‘endangerment’ chopping

By Lee Ann Anderson, The Hill 

In a unanimous decision, the Democratic caucus in the Senate wrote a letter on Monday opposing the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind a 2009 endangerment finding, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determination that concluded the accumulation of six greenhouse gases poses a serious threat to public health.

The proposal would also repeal regulations for motor vehicles and engines. The determination helped set up the legal basis for U.S. climate policy, according to a press release.

The effort, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), comes after the Trump administration said it’d axe the finding in July. 

“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers. In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in July.

 “We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide, which the finding never assessed independently, were the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods.” 

The administration used studies authored and published by scientists who deny the existence of climate change to justify the decision. The scientists behind the studies have been attempting to sow seeds of doubt about climate change within the scientific community for years, according to CNN. 

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Trump lectures the world: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’

In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines and environmentalists while dismissing the dangers of climate change.

President Trump speaks from a lectern in front of several rows of diplomats.
President Donald Trump at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times

By Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times

President Trump went on a rant against climate change at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, calling it the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and saying that the scientific consensus on global warming was created by “stupid people.” He also berated countries, including close allies of the United States, for adopting renewable energy.

It added up to an extraordinary diatribe that overlooked the human suffering caused by the heat waves, wildfires, and deadly floods exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, while simultaneously standing at odds with the rapid expansion of renewable energy worldwide.

He chose his two targets, demonizing immigrants and green energy, and called them a “double-tailed monster” that he claimed, without evidence, are “destroying” Europe. Both subjects play well to his base in the Republican Party. But it was remarkable that he said all this to a global audience.

“You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you’re going to be great again,” he said. “I worry about Europe, I love the people of Europe. I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration.”

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Trump’s temper could cost Orsted’s offshore wind project $1 billion


By Alex Kuffner, Providence Journal

A federal judge on Monday allowed work to restart on the stalled Revolution Wind offshore wind project after the Trump administration halted it last month.

Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for preliminary injunction of the stop-work order imposed by the Trump administration on the New England project during a high-stakes hearing. The multibillion-dollar offshore wind project is one of the highest-profile renewable energy projects that the administration has sought to suspend while it reviews approvals.

“There is no question in my mind of irreparable harm to the plaintiff,” Lamberth said of the administration’s actions during the hearing.

Lamberth said that if work does not proceed on the project, the “entire enterprise could collapse,” and he pointed to a specialized ship necessary to complete the project that will no longer be available after December.

The project, which is being developed by the Danish wind giant Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, has argued that the stop-work order is illegal and “reflects a shockingly expansive theory of agency power to undo prior regulatory approvals.” Lawyers for the companies argued that the Interior Department violated the major questions doctrine with the pause.

Revolution Wind has said the stop-work order “will inflict devastating and irreparable harm” on the project. The company has already spent or committed about $5 billion on the project and will incur more than $1 billion in costs if the project is canceled, it said.

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Judge grants new life to Trump-trashed offshore wind project

The Trump administration had halted construction on the $6.2 billion Revolution Wind project, prompting its developer to sue

By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the Trump administration.

Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit that the developers of Revolution Wind had filed challenging the Interior Department’s stop-work order. The injunction means that construction can continue while the case moves forward.

“Revolution Wind will resume impacted construction work as soon as possible, with safety as the top priority,” Orsted, which is developing the wind farm in a joint venture with Skyborn Renewables, said in a statement. Orsted added that it would “continue to seek to work collaboratively with the U.S. administration and other stakeholders toward a prompt resolution” of the lawsuit.

The $6.2 billion Revolution Wind project was 80 percent completed when the Interior Department ordered construction to stop on Aug. 29. The developers behind the 65-turbine project had said it was on track to generate enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring.

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New Jerseyans rush to take advantage of expiring solar tax credits

By Briana Vanozzi and Ben Hlac, NJ Spotlight News

Homeowners in New Jersey and beyond are rushing to install solar panels on their rooftops in order to qualify for a federal tax credit that expires at the end of the year.

Congress zeroed out that tax credit, which covers 30% of a new residential solar project, as part of a broader Republican budget law.

The loss of that federal incentive is one of several threats facing the domestic solar industry, as our correspondent in Washington, Ben Hulac, explains. This interview has been excerpted and lightly edited.

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NJ dive company discovers fishing trawler sunk in 1929

By Dan Radel, Asbury Park Press

One of the last dives of the late shipwreck hunter Joe Mazraani of Millstone Township, NJ, was to the steam trawler Seiner, a fishing vessel that disappeared in the fishing grounds of Georges Bank off Rhode Island in January 1929.

The vessel had been lost for 95 years before the team from the dive boat Tenacious, led by Mazraani and Eric Takakjian of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, discovered the wreck site in 2022 using side scan sonar. They returned on July 27 and 28 of this summer and positively identified the wreck.

However, Mazraani did not have long to celebrate the find. Just two short days later, he died while identifying a second wreck in the Georges Bank, said Jennifer Silletti, Mazraani’s partner in life and in the Atlantic Wreck Salvage Co. and Tenacious dive boat. The business and boat are based out of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ.

The Seiner left from New London, Connecticut, on Jan. 9, 1929, and was last heard from on the 18th when her captain, Thomas Miller, made a required daily report to the vessel’s owner, Portland Trawling Co.

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Seiner’s double drum trawl winch as seen on July, 27, 2025. The Seiner was an early 20th century fishing trawler that shipwrecked on Georges Bank on 1929. It was identified by the dive boat Tenacious this summer.

Concerns grew when Seiner failed to make her Jan. 19 report and again when she missed her scheduled return to port on Jan. 22. It’s believed that the vessel foundered in a storm. Her entire crew of 21 men went down with the ship.

When the ship went missing, a concerted effort was made to find it. The Portland Trawling Co. and the United States Coast Guard mounted a search and rescue mission that involved private fishing vessels, 12 patrol boats, and two destroyers. They found no survivors

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