Americans over 60 lost more than $7.7 billion to scams last year. AI-powered scams alone took $352 million from seniors. The platforms delivering those ads are the same ones your parents scroll for two hours a day. www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...

FBI Warns Older Adults Lost Billions to Scammers

The FBI says older adults lost $7.7 billion to scams in 2025. Learn which scams target seniors most and how families can help.

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Los acuerdos que reparten el agua del río Colorado vencen el 31 de diciembre de 2026. 40 millones de personas dependen de esa agua. Y se siguen aprobando centros de datos que consumen miles de millones de galones.

Water, power and zoning are decided locally. Nearly all of it. In rooms holding fewer than 50 people. We spend our political energy on the layer we can least affect and almost none on the layer we actually control. www.watereducation.org/western-wate...

The Colorado River States are Deadlocked and the River is Crashing. Will a ‘Grand Bargain’ Finally Get its Day? - Water Education Foundation

WESTERN WATER IN-DEPTH: A 'wild idea' to defuse the Colorado River Compact's legal time bomb has been kept alive by seasoned observers who believe it could still save the river

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The Colorado River supports roughly 40 million people and an estimated $1.4 trillion in economic activity. The states are deadlocked, so the federal government is preparing to impose its own plan. Biggest slow-motion story in America. theconversation.com/why-colorado...

Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement

The current Colorado River negotiations process includes all five of the most common sources of conflict in any process seeking compromise.

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Seven states blew past a federal deadline to agree on Colorado River cuts. The rules governing that water expire Dec 31. 40 million people drink from it. And we keep approving data centers that consume billions of gallons in that basin. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Colorado River states fail to meet water deadline during 'extremely frustrating' negotiations

Arizona and the six other states that use the Colorado River do not have a new plan to share the shrinking water supply.

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Minnesota estimates news deserts cost its taxpayers about $13 million a year. Not in principle in money. Higher borrowing, thinner oversight, more waste. Local journalism paid for itself and we let it die for free. www.insightnews.com/business/loc...

Local news deserts cost Minnesota taxpayers an estimated $13 million a year, new report finds

When a town loses its newspaper, something quiet happens in a place most residents never see: the bond market. Lenders who finance the schools, water systems and roads that local

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The whole mechanism in one sentence: Facebook took local advertising, local papers died, nobody covers the county commission, and decisions now get made in empty rooms. That isn't a side effect. It's the business model's exhaust.

16 Virginia counties now have no local news outlet at all. Ask what tends to get built in a county with no reporters. Then look at where data centers get sited. Those two maps will keep overlapping. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

Virginia news deserts doubled in recent years

A new report shows 16 Virginia counties now lack local news, with rural areas hit hardest.

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One Illinois publisher shut 13 of its 20 papers this year, creating five new news-desert counties in a single move. Gallatin. Hamilton. Johnson. Pulaski. Saline. Nobody is watching those county budgets now. Nobody. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/0...

Paddock closes at least 13 Illinois newspapers, adding five new news deserts

With little advance notice or explanation, Paddock Publications has ceased publishing at least 13 of its 20 newspapers in Illinois this month.

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136 newspapers closed in the past year. That's why nobody covered the data center vote in your county. There is literally no one left to send. The platforms took the ad revenue and left the meeting room empty. www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news...

News deserts widen as newspapers continue to close, according to Northwestern University report

News deserts are expanding and more newspapers are shutting down, according to Northwestern University’s Medill State of Local News report issued Monday. | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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71% of Americans oppose an AI data center being built near them. 71%. There is no political coalition in this country that large. The work isn't persuading people. It's telling them they're already the majority. robertbryce.substack.com/p/ai-rejecte...

AI Rejected: Tracking The Great Data Center Revolt

The definitive, up-to-date list of the US communities that have rejected or restricted data centers in 2026.

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There have been more data center rejections and restrictions in the US since January than in all of 2025. Seattle Spokane Broomfield Prince George's County Sarasota Hill County, Texas — the first Texas county to hit pause. Neighbors did that. Keep FIGHTING as its working! dcmap.us/insights/pol...

US Data Center Policy Tracker: Moratoriums, Rejections & Legislation (Jul 2026)

15 documented public actions on US data center development across 10 states since 2025: moratoriums, project rejections, zoning ordinances, and state legislation. Updated July 2026.

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A federal court threw out the IRS rule targeting wind and solar credits. Congress restored most of NOAA's research funding. Two rollbacks reversed in one year. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Judge tosses Trump bid to restrict renewable energy tax credits

A federal judge over the weekend struck down a Trump administration effort to restrict tax credits for wind and solar energy. While the ruling is a win for renewable energy supporters, it come…

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Despite every cancellation, a record 79.7 GW of clean power is projected to come online in the US this year. Both things are true at once: they're obstructing it, and it's still winning on price. Despair is a product. Don't buy it. blogs.edf.org/climate411/2...

How the Trump administration is obstructing clean energy – and why it raises your costs - Climate 411

The Trump administration is blocking renewable energy projects, resulting in higher bills, more pollution and less jobs.

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The US crossed 300 gigawatts of installed solar and 6 million individual solar installations. Batteries now ship with 45% of new home systems. Regular people did most of that. Roof by roof, with no announcement. www.techtimes.com/articles/318...

US Solar Installations Hit 6 Million: Battery Storage in 45% of New Homes

US solar installations surpassed 6 million in Q1 2026 as solar and battery storage claimed 91% of all new US grid capacity, per the SEIA Q2 2026 report. Battery storage now accompanies 45% of new resi...

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July 9: California's battery fleet discharged a record 12.99 GW 36% of regional demand. July 10: solar hit 23 GW, covering 72% of afternoon demand. The "renewables can't handle peak" argument died quietly in California this summer. seia.org/blog/6-recor...

6 Records Solar and Storage Have Crushed in the First Half of 2026 – SEIA

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is leading the transformation to a clean energy economy. Learn more at seia.org

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In May 2026, solar generated more electricity than coal for the first time in American history. First time. Ever. Save this one for whoever tells you nothing is changing. cleantechnica.com/2026/07/16/6...

6 Records Solar & Storage Have Crushed in the First Half of 2026 - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...

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Actual good news: in the first half of 2026, solar and storage were 91% of ALL new electricity capacity added to the US grid. Not 91% of new renewables. 91% of everything. The transition is happening at the meter regardless of DC. pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/22/s...

Solar and storage account for 91% of new U.S. grid capacity in Q1 - pv magazine USA

Data published by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) indicates that rapid deployment across major regional grids has driven a series of generation and capacity records during the first six...

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El 12 de febrero la EPA revocó el "endangerment finding" — la base legal para regular gases de efecto invernadero. No discutieron la ciencia. Eliminaron la autoridad para actuar. Más de una docena de grupos demandaron.

Notice the sequence? cut the firefighters cut the forecasters close the research labs delete the legal authority kill the tax credits then open the forests to logging and call it fire prevention... That's not chaos. That's an order of operations. www.nrdc.org/bio/gabriell...

Trump Administration Readies the Axe for Nearly 60 Million Acres of Public Forests

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open vast swaths of protected national forests to logging and roadbuilding, threatening the country’s last remaining wildlands.

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On that Roadless Rule justification: from 1992 to 2024, wildfire ignition density was HIGHEST within 50 meters of a road and LOWEST in roadless and wilderness areas. Every single region. Consistently. Roads don't stop fires. Roads start them. www.wilderness.org/articles/pre...

New research scrutinizes Trump’s forestry plans

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A $1.7 billion cut to NOAA, about 27%, eliminating nearly all its climate research labs. NOAA builds the models your local forecast runs on. In a record heat and fire year. Congress pushed back and restored much of it. climate.law.columbia.edu/content/trum...

Court filings indicate federal energy grants were cancelled in some states based solely on whether they backed Trump in 2024. Not merit. Not cost. Vote share. If that's the standard for grants, ask what else it's the standard for.

Roughly 8 GW of clean energy projects were cancelled in the first quarter alone. Those were jobs, and a lot of that build-out sits in Republican districts. Framed as jobs, this argument crosses the aisle. Framed as climate, it doesn't.

The administration has paid companies to walk away from offshore wind leases and buried solar in paperwork. That's not the market picking winners. That's the referee picking. Energy that got cheaper is being made artificially harder. blogs.edf.org/climate411/2...

How the Trump administration is obstructing clean energy – and why it raises your costs - Climate 411

The Trump administration is blocking renewable energy projects, resulting in higher bills, more pollution and less jobs.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill set a hard deadline of July 4, 2026 for solar and wind to lock in tax credits covering 30%+ of project costs. That deadline passed four weeks ago. Watch carefully now for what simply doesn't get built. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Solar and wind try to navigate Trump’s obstacle course for tax credits

Many solar and wind projects will meet a July 4 deadline for tax credits. But to keep them, they must be built in four years — and that involves yet more…

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Emissions standards for light, medium and heavy duty vehicles: repealed. That cost doesn't vanish. It reappears as inhalers and ER visits in whatever neighborhood sits closest to the freeway. Rarely the neighborhood that wrote the rule. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate

The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.

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EPA didn't claim warming isn't happening. It argued the agency never had authority to act on it. Procedural, bloodless, and far more durable than denial. Watch for that move everywhere now. It's the new template. www.wri.org/insights/end...

EPA Repeals Legal Basis for Regulating Greenhouse Gases. What it Means for the US — and the World

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency repeals the endangerment finding, marking a major climate rollback with public health and environmental impacts.

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Repealing the endangerment finding doesn't make CO2 harmless. It makes it unregulatable. That's the move: you never have to win the science argument if you delete the legal authority to act on it. Over a dozen groups are suing. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Advocacy groups sue Trump administration over endangerment finding’s repeal

The US Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the climate change finding as part of a push to slash regulation.

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On Feb 12 the EPA revoked the endangerment finding the 2009 determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health. That one document underpinned emissions rules for cars, power plants and oil & gas. They didn't beat the science. They removed the hook. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

Trump revokes EPA finding on greenhouse gas threat in huge blow to climate change regulations

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin officially revoked the endangerment finding, in a huge blow to U.S. efforts to fight climate change.

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