WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The The Capital Research Center issued the following InfluenceWatch wrapup on Feb. 6, 2026: * * * By Jonathan Harsh InfluenceWatch, a project of Capital Research Center, is a comprehensive and ever-evolving compilation of our research into the numerous advocacy groups, foundations, and donors working to influence the public policy process. The website offers transparency into these influencers' funding, motives, and connections while providing insight often neglected by   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Donald Trump Forgoes Enforcement of Toxic Coal Ash * Washington, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency gave a group of polluters a 33-month extension to clean up coal ash dump sites. This is twice as long an extension as what the EPA had proposed last year. According to the Sierra Club's Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard, this delay would let coal plants across the cou  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 7 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2026: * * * Trump EPA Delays Cleanup of Hundreds of Coal Ash Dumps in Advance of Larger Rollback The rule comes just days before a deadline for owners to report on previously unregulated coal ash dumping at power plant sites * Washington, D.C. -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new final rule today that will delay investigation and monitoring of millions of tons of toxic coal  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Strengthens Grid Reliability & Energy Security with Extended Compliance Deadline for Several Coal Combustion Residual Management Unit Requirements * WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule extending key compliance deadlines for coal combustion residual management unit (CCRMU) and groundwater monitoring requirements. The action supports grid reli  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: * * * ICYMI: Pressley Demands Treasury Sec. Bessent Address Alarming Black Unemployment Crisis, Exempt Baby Products from Trump's Tariffs * " You've had nine months to think about it, and while you've been thinking about it, working families have been struggling when it is required by law that they have many of these essential baby products." "Black families, Black futures, and the lives and livelihoods  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following commentary on Feb. 6, 2026: * * * China Has Banned Coal for Residential Heating to Improve Its Air Quality It is not carbon, but criteria pollutants, of which PM 2.5 is a contributor, that are polluting cities around the world. China is trying to reduce these real pollutants in its cities, which the graph below indicates is working, as Beijing's air quality was good to moderate on 95.3% of days last year, up from 55.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following testimony by Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, from a Jan. 28, 2026, hearing entitled "Improving the Federal Environmental Review and Permitting Process, Part 2": * * * Thank you, Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Whitehouse, and Members of the Committee for inviting me here to testify today on behalf of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reg  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. EP 290; Sub-No. 5) entitled "Quarterly Rail Cost Adjustment Factor": * * * In Railroad Cost Recovery Procedures, 1 I.C.C.2d 207 (1984), the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) outlined the procedures for calculating the all-inclusive index of railroad input prices and the method for computing the rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF). Under the procedures, the Associ  more

SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 6 -- The University of Technology Sydney issued the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026, by Mark Beeson to Melbourne Asia Review: * * * China and Australia: A possible pathway to collective action on climate change? It's not controversial to suggest that we live in troubled times. Even without the erratic and destructive presidency of Donald Trump in the United States, which has upended the so-called rules based international order, security was already in short suppl  more