Environment

That includes at least 168 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who worked in its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. The Trump administration is following a play out of Project 2025, which calls for “eliminating” the office.

The Senate confirmed his nomination today. Zeldin has been tasked by Donald Trump to “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses.” That seems to include removing roadblocks to building energy-hungry AI data centers in the US.

It’s 89 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. Rest assured, the clock merely “visualizes humanity’s metaphorical proximity to global catastrophe,” according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that sets the time each year and updated it today.

There are repair guides and replacement parts available for more than 20 Logitech devices, including keyboards, headsets, and MX / G series mice, on the iFixit-hosted Logitech Repair Hub — and now you can get them in 62 countries.

It’s “going to look a little different” as it migrates to a more general science site, according to NASA. President Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” and researchers have been archiving environmental data in case it starts to disappear from federal websites.

Necropsies tie whale deaths off the east coast to ship strikes, not offshore wind, as Trump claimed during his inauguration eve rally. The US has very few offshore wind turbines anyway.

“Emissions of greenhouse gasses trap heat,” Lee Zeldin, said during today’s Senate confirmation hearing when pressed about climate science. Whether he’ll take action is another issue.

The US Supreme Court denied petitions from fossil fuel companies seeking to thwart a climate lawsuit filed against them — allowing the case to go to trial.

The LA-based tech company has 150 employees who have been displaced from the wildfires, Spiegel wrote in a letter published on the company’s website. Snap has donated $5 million to local relief efforts and “will do more,” he says.

Two people have been arrested in California for flying unauthorized drones in areas impacted by the LA wildfires, according to a police report seen by Deadline.

As expected. Insert smiling cartoon dog sitting at a table, coffee mug in hand, as Los Angeles goes up in flames. This is fine.

Watch Duty: Wildfire Maps, a crowdsourced app that tracks nearby fires, evacuation notices, and other key information, was more popular than ChatGPT, Threads, and Temu today as wildfires burn out of control across Southern California.

Hundreds of thousands of people are without power, and tens of thousands are under evacuation orders with blazes out of control in Southern California.

More than 625 million acres of the US oceans are now protected after Biden prohibited all future oil and gas leasing.

When I heard tell of the connected oysters here at CES Unveiled, I thought they were going to be some silly rich people nonsense. They actually help companies monitor water quality by keeping tabs on the health of the mollusks. That’s super cool! And they get to throw around the phrase “happy as a clam” and really mean it.