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Received yesterday — 2 June 2026 NYT - Energy & Environment

Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

2 June 2026 at 21:53
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

© National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative

Recovering a surface buoy — part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean — from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
Received — 31 May 2026 NYT - Energy & Environment

A Clean Energy PAC Helped Beat Chip Roy, and Now It Has New Targets

29 May 2026 at 20:47
A PAC representing wind and solar energy interests spent $1.1 million to boost the Republican primary opponent of Chip Roy, an opponent of renewables. Now they are trying to save a Republican ally in Iowa.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

A group of renewable energy investors paid for this projection on the side of the Energy Department building in Washington gloating over Representative Chip Roy’s defeat in a Republican primary for Texas attorney general.
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