| 2026-06-10 | Gov. Abbott directs PUCT to require data centers to fully fund own electric infrastructure; PUCT must act to reduce residential transmission costs by July 31, 2026
4 src Greg Abbott · Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | EPA Proposes Redefining 'Begin Actual Construction' Under NSR — Allows Datacenter Construction Before Air Permits
5 src Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-01 | DOE §202(c) emergency coal-retention order log through May 2026: 43+ orders, ~4.4 GW stalled across 6 plants, D.C. Circuit challenges filed
10 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy · NIPSCO · Earthjustice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-16 | FERC misses DOE-ordered April 30 deadline on large-load interconnection Docket RM26-4-000 — issues Intent to Act order committing to June 2026 action
6 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-22 | EPA Weakens National Park Haze Rule, Shields Coal Plants from Pollution Control Evaluations
3 src EPA · Sierra Club · Earthjustice |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | Half of National Weather Service Offices Critically Understaffed, Eight Cease Overnight Operations
3 src NOAA |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | NV Energy Declines to Extend Lake Tahoe Wholesale Power Supply, Citing Data-Center Demand; ~49,000 Liberty Utilities Customers Need Replacement Supply by Mid-2027
4 src Google · Apple · Microsoft |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-19 | 24 States and 15 Local Governments Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
4 src AG Letitia James · EPA · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | PUCT issues draft report in Project 58484 recommending Texas shift from 4CP to multi-peak transmission cost methodology — final rules required by December 31, 2026
4 src Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT · Greg Abbott |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-23 | Legal Scholars Assess State Climate Authority After Endangerment Repeal; California Formally Sues EPA
6 src California Attorney General Rob Bonta · U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-21 | Independent Analysis Projects 58,000 Additional Deaths and $4.7 Trillion in Costs from EPA Endangerment Repeal
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Fossil Fuel Industry |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-18 | EPA Endangerment Finding Repeal Published in Federal Register; Coalition Lawsuits Filed Same Day
7 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Earthjustice · Environmental Defense Fund · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | House Democrats Launch Investigation into DOJ Congressional Surveillance
4 src Jamie Raskin · Pramila Jayapal · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | Jim O'Neill and Mike Stuart Depart HHS in Leadership Shakeup Ahead of Midterms
3 src Jim O'Neill · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | EPA Repeals 2009 Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | AG Bondi Photographed with Rep. Jayapal's Epstein Files Search History
4 src Pam Bondi · Pramila Jayapal · Department of Justice · Mike Johnson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | Trump Orders Pentagon to Purchase Coal-Fired Electricity
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Department of Energy · Peabody Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-08 | EPA Advances Rollback of Four PFAS Drinking Water Standards
3 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-02 | GAO Report Reveals Education Department Paid $38M to Idled Civil Rights Staff
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon · Bernie Sanders · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-19 | EPA issues Section 7(b) Brownfield/Superfund AI datacenter reuse guidance on EO deadline — CERCLA liability retained, energy and water proximity required
6 src Lee Zeldin · Department of Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-18 | EPA WOTUS Rollback Moves Forward After Public Comment Period
3 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-20 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders 'Operation Hawkeye Strike': Massive Retaliatory Strikes Against ISIS in Syria
3 src Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump |
| reported |
| 2025-12-10 | DOJ Leaders Attack Federal Judges for Disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as Unlawfully Appointed U.S. Attorney
4 src Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lindsey Halligan · Cameron McGowan Currie · +4 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-09 | Department of Justice Eliminates 50-Year-Old Disparate Impact Standard from Civil Rights Enforcement, Requiring Proof of Intentional Discrimination
3 src Pam Bondi · Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-09 | Federal Judge Orders Release of Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Materials Under Epstein Files Transparency Act
3 src Paul Engelmayer · Ghislaine Maxwell · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-08 | State Department Revokes Record 85,000 Visas Including 8,000 Student Visas Since January, More Than Double 2024 Rate
3 src State Department · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-08 | Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-06 | National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday
5 src Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · NAACP · Angus King |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-05 | Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Materials from 2005-2007 Florida Investigations
4 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Alexander Acosta · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-05 | RFK Jr.'s Reconstituted CDC Panel Votes to Roll Back Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation
5 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-03 | State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers
4 src State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies |
| reported |
| 2025-12-03 | U.S. Institute of Peace Rebranded as 'Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace' After Armed Takeover
4 src Donald Trump · State Department · Federal Judiciary |
| reported |
| 2025-12-02 | Trump Pardons Former Honduran President Convicted of Drug Trafficking
3 src Donald Trump · Juan Orlando Hernández · Tim Kaine · Dick Durbin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-27 | USCIS Halts All Afghan Asylum Decisions After DC Shooting: Collective Punishment for Entire Nation
3 src Joseph Edlow · Marco Rubio · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-20 | Trump Threatens Six Democratic Congress Members with Execution for Reminding Military of Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders
5 src Donald Trump · Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Chris DeLuzio · +7 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-19 | Interior Department Proposes Opening 1.27 Billion Acres to Offshore Drilling, Largest OCS Program in History
6 src Doug Burgum · Department of the Interior |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-07 | Cornell University Agrees to Pay $60 Million and Accept Federal Oversight to Restore Research Funding
3 src Trump Administration |
| reported |
| 2025-11-05 | Supreme Court Hears Landmark Tariff Case, Justices Express Deep Skepticism of Trump's Emergency Powers
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-01 | PJM December 2025 capacity auction hits record $333/MW-day; data centers account for 40% ($6.5B) of total $16.4B cost
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-29 | Supreme Court to Review Trump's Federalization of National Guard in Chicago, Nationwide Implications
3 src Donald Trump · JB Pritzker · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-27 | DHS Posts Halo Video Game Image Comparing Immigrants to Parasitic Aliens Requiring Extermination
4 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kaelan Dorr · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · White House |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-23 | Energy Secretary Wright invokes rare DOE-over-FERC directive authority to compel ANOPR on large-load interconnection — Docket RM26-4-000 — final action ordered by April 30 2026
6 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-18 | Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division
2 src United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-15 | Pentagon Chief Hegseth Blocks Military Officials From Contacting Congress Without Approval
3 src Pete Hegseth · Steve Feinberg · Pentagon |
| reported |
| 2025-10-10 | Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties
2 src Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen |
| reported |
| 2025-10-10 | Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas
2 src Elon Musk |
| reported |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry
2 src Fossil Fuel Industry · White House |
| reported |
| 2025-09-26 | Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis
2 src Tulsi Gabbard |
| reported |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission'
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-23 | Axon Acquires Prepared for $800-900 Million, Adding AI-Powered 911 Call Processing to Complete Surveillance Pipeline
3 src Axon · Rick Smith |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency |
| reported |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump's Offshore Wind Assault Threatens 17,000+ Jobs, 99 Renewable Projects Canceled
2 src Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · Department of Interior |
| reported |
| 2025-09-11 | Senate Republicans Change Rules to Confirm Trump Nominees in Batches Without Individual Scrutiny
3 src John Thune · Senate Republicans · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2025-09-11 | State Department Adds 'Fidelity' Criterion, Retaliates Against Diplomats for Honest Analysis
3 src State Department · Donald Trump |
| reported |
| 2025-09-10 | Labor Department Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Jobs Data Manipulation
3 src Erika McEntarfer · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| reported |
| 2025-09-10 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels
3 src Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department |
| reported |
| 2025-09-09 | Trump Spending Legislation Creates $40 Billion in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies
2 src Donald Trump · Fossil Fuel Industry |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War'
3 src Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence
2 src John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-08-29 | EPA Fires At Least 8 Employees Who Signed Letter Criticizing Trump's Environmental Rollbacks
3 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Lee Zeldin · Trump | | reported |
| 2025-08-29 | Federal Circuit Court Rules Trump Tariffs Violated IEEPA, Exceeded Presidential Authority
3 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-29 | OMB Director Russell Vought Inserts Political Conditions Into 100+ Budget Accounts, Blocking Congressional Appropriations
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump · U.S. Congress |
| reported |
| 2025-08-29 | Trump Invokes 'Pocket Rescission' to Claw Back $4.9 Billion in Congressionally Approved Foreign Aid
3 src Trump · State Department · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Congress |
| reported |
| 2025-08-19 | State Department Revokes 6,000+ Student Visas, Targeting Palestinian Activists
3 src State Department · Marco Rubio · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2025-08-11 | Texas Public Utility Commission sues AG Ken Paxton to block release of Bitcoin miner facility data; invokes terrorism threat to shield SB 1929 registration records from journalists
2 src Public Utility Commission of Texas · Ken Paxton |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-29 | EPA Proposes Rescinding Endangerment Finding at Indiana Truck Dealership: Zeldin Calls It 'Largest Deregulatory Action in History'
6 src Lee Zeldin · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-24 | DOE selects four federal sites for AI datacenter buildout — Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Savannah River Site — implementing Section 3 of the July 23 EO
5 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-23 | Trump signs Executive Order 'Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure' — 100 MW threshold, NEPA categorical-exclusion creation directive, <50% federal-financial-assistance carve-out from NEPA 'major Federal action'
7 src Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-23 | White House releases 'Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan' — 90+ federal policy initiatives across innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy pillars; companion to datacenter permitting EO
5 src Donald Trump · David Sacks · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-15 | Climate Programs Dismantled - NOAA Faces 27% Budget Cut
4 src NOAA · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Raising Concerns About Regulatory Capture
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-20 | Texas Gov. Abbott signs SB 6 — large-load (≥75 MW) interconnection reform; mandatory remote-disconnect / curtailment for entrants post Dec 31 2025; bellwether state model for the federal FERC ANOPR
6 src Greg Abbott · Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT · Texas Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-29 | Federal Courts Rule Trump's IEEPA Tariffs Illegal in Multiple Cases
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-28 | HHS Cancels $766 Million Moderna Contract for H5N1 Pandemic Flu Vaccines
3 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-07 | Puerto Rico Loses Over $4.7 Million in FEMA Climate Resilience Funding as Federal Recovery Stalls
2 src Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Kristi Noem · Jenniffer González-Colón | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2025-03-12 | EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces Historic Rollback of 31 Pollution Rules
5 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-12 | EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Eliminates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
5 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-14 | DOE Resumes LNG Export Approvals: Commonwealth LNG First Permit, Five Major Facilities Approved by September
7 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-01 | Core Scientific / CoreWeave HPC conversion reaches 590 MW across six sites, $10.2B over 12 years — landmark Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-infrastructure pivot
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares National Energy Emergency on First Day to Bypass Environmental Regulations
2 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs 'Unleashing American Energy' EO on Day One: Lifts LNG Export Pause, Opens Federal Lands, Targets EV Mandates
5 src Donald Trump · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-17 | RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2024-02-08 | Michael Mann Wins Defamation Lawsuit After 12-Year Battle Against Climate Deniers
4 src Michael Mann · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2023-09-06 | Riot Platforms discloses $31.7M in ERCOT power and demand-response credits for August 2023 — record single-month curtailment payout to a Bitcoin miner
2 src ERCOT |
| confirmed |
| 2023-08-08 | Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster
5 src | | confirmed |
| 2023-05-30 | Texas SB 1751 — which would have capped Bitcoin miner demand-response participation at 10% — dies in House State Affairs Committee after passing Senate 30–1; industry lobbying preserves unlimited subsidy access
4 src Texas Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2022-10-12 | Senators Markey and Warren open congressional inquiry into ERCOT subsidies for Bitcoin miners; cite $9.5M Riot July 2022 payment exceeding Bitcoin revenue; project up to $170M in annual miner payouts
2 src Ed Markey · Elizabeth Warren · Sheldon Whitehouse · Dick Durbin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-01-13 | Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances
3 src Letitia James |
| confirmed |
| 2022-01-01 | Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022
2 src Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-15 | Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return
3 src Russ Vought |
| confirmed |
| 2020-08-25 | Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers Historic RNC Speech from Jerusalem Rooftop, Violating Hatch Act After Changing State Department Policy
4 src Mike Pompeo · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-05-15 | Trump Dismisses State Department Inspector General Steve Linick
3 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Steve Linick · Nancy Pelosi | | confirmed |
| 2020-02-28 | Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2019-11-20 | Sondland Testifies - "Was There a Quid Pro Quo? The Answer Is Yes. Everyone Was in the Loop."
3 src Gordon Sondland · Mike Pompeo · Mike Pence · Mick Mulvaney · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-11-15 | Ambassador Yovanovitch Testifies on Giuliani Smear Campaign and Removal from Ukraine Post
3 src Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman |
| confirmed |
| 2019-10-30 | Interior IG Investigates Bernhardt for California Water Decision Benefiting Former Client Westlands
3 src David Bernhardt |
| confirmed |