Exceptionally high tides coinciding with the solar eclipse allow the escape of thousands of Atlantic salmon from a Washington fish farm into Puget Sound. Local officials urge fishers to catch as many as possible. 

A live Asian carp is found in Michigan’s Calumet River, only 9 miles from Lake Michigan. This is the second time one of the extremely invasive species has evaded the three electronic barriers that are supposed to block them from the lake. The Trump administration is refusing to release a study on other possible measures to contain the carp.

In the past five months, hunters killed 500 invasive pythons in the Everglades. State officials pay them $8 an hour plus a bounty for each snake killed, adding up to about $100 per python. 

The U.S. District Court of Appeals says that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was wrong to approve the Sabal Trail pipeline, which would bring fracked natural gas 500 miles through Alabama and Georgia to Florida, because FERC failed to analyze its potential climate-change effects. 

More than 17 million Americans live within a mile of an active oil or natural gas well.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommends that “a handful” of national monuments be shrunk, but doesn’t say which ones. More than 2.7 million people commented on the issue, the overwhelming majority in favor of keeping all monuments intact.  

The Interior Department halts a study of the public health effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining.

Energy Transfer Partners, the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline, sue Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other environmental groups for $300 million for their opposition to the pipeline. One of the partners in the law firm representing the company, Marc Kasowitz, also represents President Donald Trump in the ongoing investigations of his campaign’s ties to Russia.

A peer-reviewed Harvard analysis of ExxonMobil’s internal documents and public communications finds that for nearly 40 years, the oil giant misled the public about the dangers of climate change. 

Contradicting a leaked draft version, the Energy Department’s long-awaited grid-reliability study champions the role of coal and nuclear power plants, laying the groundwork for government subsidies to help them compete with cheaper and cleaner renewables. The final version also omits the words “climate change.” 

Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the nation’s largest coal company, threatens to declare bankruptcy and asks Donald Trump for a bailout.

A factory in Mumbai, India, is shut down after the untreated industrial wastes and dyes it dumped into a local river turned dogs bright blue. 

The National Park Service reverses its Obama-era ban on the sale of water in disposable bottles. 

The Trump administration orders the dismantling of a Bikeshare station on the White House grounds that had been established under President Barack Obama. 

Daniel Kammen, a clean-energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, resigns his position as science envoy for the State Department, citing President Trump’s “failure to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis.” The initial letters in each paragraph in his resignation letter spell out “IMPEACH."

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