Good climate news:
Green banks are successfully funding clean energy projects across the country, even after Trump tried to defund them.
LA Metro just approved 220 zero-emission electric buses — the second-largest electric transit bus purchase in the country. Local activists showed up to meeting after meeting demanding exactly this. It paid off. NICE WORK!
Global power-sector emissions would have been 3.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide higher in 2025 without the growth of wind and solar since 2005, according to a climate scientist’s new analysis.
When the U.S. Forest Service closed public comments on rescinding the Roadless Rule this week it had received 1.6 million comments. WOW!
A stranded dolphin is now swimming free in Florida after community members came together in a six-hour rescue.
One of the largest solar farms in the country just came online in Northwest Indiana.
After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic makeup, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered a halt to new air and water permitting for data centers until July, an action that could halt construction of new projects across the state.
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 40 years, according to figures released Friday, in welcome news for leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva days before a presidential run-off.
Amazon abandoned a $427 million data center plan in Virginia and pledged land donations worth $65 million instead.
The Trump administration is advancing two wind projects stalled by the Pentagon after a court ordered them to do so.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) officially removed green sea turtles from its endangered list, reclassifying them as “Least Concern” after decades of global conservation efforts.
Thanks Jess Craven for "Extra Extra" of Chop Wood, Carry Water newsletter Oct. 18, 2026
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