A red fox is captured and euthanized after biting a Politico reporter and California representative Ami Bera. The fox, a female, had kits in the vicinity. It also tested positive for rabies.  

Without explanation, conservative justices on the Supreme Court reinstate a Trump-era rule that severely restricts the ability of states and tribal nations to object to dams, pipelines, and other water projects.

The Senate votes 53–47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. 

Betty Reid Soskin retires as a National Park Service ranger at age 100. 

The site of a historic community of emancipated Black people that was razed to make way for Chalmette National Historical Park is discovered because of the blooming of Louisiana irises and African lilies that the inhabitants planted. 

Russian climate and environmental scientists, ashamed of their country’s invasion of Ukraine and forbidden from publishing in international journals, seek to flee the country.

Lithuania renounces Russian gas, becoming the first country in the European Union to do so. 

The United States Senate votes unanimously to bar Russian fossil fuel imports. 

The Biden administration set tough new auto fuel standards. By 2026, automakers will be required to achieve a fleet-wide average of 49 miles per gallon.

All state parks in Colorado are installing EV chargers. 

ExxonMobil records its highest quarterly profit in a decade, as much as $11 billion.

ConocoPhillips says that a leak that occurred while it was drilling a waste well in Alaska’s North Slope emitted 7.2 million cubic feet of methane gas. 

Emissions of the powerful global-warming gas methane set a new record in 2021 for the second year in a row. 

The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s largest producers of oil, will ban plastic bags starting in June. 

A former West Virginia coal mine is going to become Sun Park, a 3,000-acre, 250-megawatt solar farm. 

The EPA moves to ban chrysotile or "white" asbestos, which is used in roofing material, brake pads, and other automotive applications. Like other forms of asbestos, it is carcinogenic. 

The World Health Organization says that 99 percent of the earth’s population breathes air that fails to meet WHO standards and which threatens their health. 

Wind energy company ESI Energy agrees to pay a $35 million fine in settlement for killing 150 bald and golden eagles at its Wyoming wind farms. 

North American zoos are moving their birds indoors in an attempt to shelter them from the deadly and highly contagious avian flu that is sweeping the continent.

It is now illegal to trap, snare, or poison wildlife on public lands in New Mexico.