Trump’s immigration crackdown hits clean energy

Published on September 12, 2025

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Hyundai’s huge EV manufacturing facility in Georgia became the latest target of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown last week, with federal agents detaining 475 workers, most of them from…

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Illinois' push to train workers for solar industry jobs is paying off

September 12, 2025
At 15, Kyle Barber started working at the Captain coal mine in southern Illinois — “following in the footsteps of my forefathers,” he says. It was 1996, and the mine was closing, so his job involved swinging sledgehammers and scrambling down dangerously steep hillsides to retrieve huge rolls of discarded chain-link…

Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year

September 14, 2025
Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds.