The state of Nevada is suing to challenge the Trump administration's new plan for dealing with water shortages along the Colorado River.

(Beyond Pesticides, August 26, 2026) A childhood cancer cluster has been reported in the community of Ladera Ranch, an unincorporated development of over 20,000 people in Orange County, California. Residents, pressing for federal and state investigations, have documented at least six pediatric Ewing sarcoma diagnoses since 2013, including 17-year-old Brody Matteson, who died in March of this year…

A fast-moving wildfire in north-central Texas has destroyed a family home and business property, burned buildings at a youth camp and forced evacuations across sparsely populated ranch country west of Fort Worth, while local ranchers opened barns for animals needing evacuation.