by David Sun | Feb 19, 2026 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Exactly one month after a major sewer line collapsed, pouring raw sewage into the Potomac River, environmental advocates and experts warned the public health threat could continue for months. The initial spill occurred on Jan. 19 when a section of the...
by David Sun | Feb 12, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senators condemned Jeremy Carl, President Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday. The confirmation hearing allowed senators to probe four Trump...
by David Sun | Feb 11, 2026 | Environment, Featured
Washington — Attendees filled the Fred Kavli Auditorium at the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday for Climate Conversations: D.C. Crossroads, which featured two panel discussions. The first conversation focused on how to communicate climate change effectively,...
by David Sun | Feb 3, 2026 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Wildfire legislation aimed at reducing fire risk exposed partisan divisions Tuesday, as Democrats used a House Subcommittee on Federal Lands hearing to criticize the Trump administration. California’s Palisades and Eaton fires exploded within hours of...
by David Sun | Jan 28, 2026 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — With the United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and environmental regulations being dismantled under the Trump administration, Democrats are reexamining whether climate change still resonates in American politics. Earlier this week, the...
by David Sun | Jan 26, 2026 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Republican representatives from Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa said they oppose deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean during a hearing Thursday before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Several mining companies...
by David Sun | Jan 13, 2026 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether a federal contractor could move a case from state to federal court, after a state court ruled Chevron, alongside other oil companies, had to pay $745 million to a Louisiana parish. In the original...
