| 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 |
| 2026-04-18 | NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket
8 src |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
4 src Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +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 |
| 2025-08-08 | EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays
3 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-07 | EPA Cancels Solar for All Grants Program
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| 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 |
| 2025-07-28 | EPA Delays Methane Pollution Rules for Oil and Gas Industry, Adding Equivalent of 25 Million Cars' Emissions
4 src EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump |
| 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 |
| 2025-07-18 | EPA Announces Largest Workforce Reduction in History — 3,707 Employees Cut, Office of Research and Development Eliminated
6 src Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · DOGE |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-14 | EPA Rolls Back PFAS Drinking Water Protections, Delays Enforcement, Terminates Research Grants
5 src EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump |
| 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 |
| 2025-02-10 | EPA Administrator Zeldin Plans 65% Workforce Cut While Terminating $20 Billion Climate Grants
3 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2019-06-19 | EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule Replacing Clean Power Plan With Weaker Standards
4 src Andrew Wheeler · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · Scott Pruitt |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation
4 src Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations
3 src Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler |
| confirmed |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Neil Gorsuch |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections
3 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |