climate movement

The Trump administration is advancing its critical minerals agenda into a region known as America's 'forgotten wildlife corridor', according to reporting by Inside Climate News. The push for domestic mining of minerals deemed essential to national security and clean energy technologies is raising concerns that expanded extraction could fragment habitat and disrupt wildlife movement in an ecologically significant stretch of the country.

Opposition to data centers is growing in many communities, but climate groups argue the movement has not yet turned into a broader reckoning over the facilities' greenhouse gas emissions. Activists are joining local anti-data-center campaigns, hoping to draw attention to the massive energy and water demands of the computing infrastructure behind AI and cloud services. The open question is whether residents angry about land, power and noise will also come to care about the impact on the atmosphere.