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Bay Area regulators just helped frontline communities breathe easier

Two massive Bay Area refineries have been required to achieve a 70 percent reduction in particulate matter emissions.
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Group says tighter radiation controls of drilling waste needed

The patchwork of radiation protection laws for oil and gas waste in the U.S. is “inconsistent,” said an official with the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, which provides expertise on radiation protection for a number of different industries.
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Millions in state forest gas lease spending ruled unconstitutional by Pa. Supreme Court

The state is not expected to have to pay back the $383 million that was transferred from a restricted conservation fund to balance budgets.
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FirstEnergy to pay $230 million penalty in Ohio bribery probe

To possibly avoid a conspiracy conviction, Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., the utility at the heart of a $61-million Ohio Statehouse bribery scandal, has agreed to pay a $230 million penalty for its role in the scheme.

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Cheswick coal-fired power station, last in Allegheny County, will stay open until April

The 565-megawatt coal-fired power station in Springdale was initially scheduled to retire in mid-September.
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Bill to subsidize sustainable agriculture "prime contender" for reconciliation package

The Growing Climate Solutions Act would help farmers and foresters participate in carbon credit markets. Its opponents say it doesn’t go far enough.
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Could the voting rights fight hinder climate and energy policies?

Communities of color are more likely to support pollution controls, renewable energy and other climate policies than white communities.
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A stronger electricity grid is crucial to cutting carbon. Does that make it green?

A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river's advocates.

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Matthew L. Cypher: Green buildings ignore the emissions from their construction

It’s time for a new paradigm in how we think about the emissions from the built environment.
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The stench of climate change

While New Mexico sizzles and the West burns, methane emissions from the state's biggest oilfield keep rising.
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Eugene Robinson: We are fiddling while the world burns, floods and chokes

Scientists are starting to ask whether we've already reached a tipping point on climate change. The rest of us need to take the possibility seriously.
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Eric Dean Wilson on air-conditioning and climate change

In conversation with Eric Dean Wilson, a professor who investigates the history and impact of artificial cooling on the environment.
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Biden’s Bureau of Land Management pick advanced by Senate committee

Republicans say Tracy Stone-Manning’s past affiliation with eco-saboteurs makes her unqualified to run the Bureau of Land Management.
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Mercedes-Benz to shift focus to electric vehicles by 2025

The automaker said it would invest 40 billion euros, or $47 billion, on electric cars, vans and light commercial vehicles by 2030.
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Maine will make companies pay for recycling. Here's how it works

The law aims to take the cost burden of recycling away from taxpayers. One environmental advocate said the change could be “transformative.”
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In deal with Germany, U.S. drops threat to block Russian gas pipelines

The agreement infuriated both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who accused the Biden administration of being soft on Russia.
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PG&E aims to curb wildfire risk by burying many power lines

The California utility said the work would involve about 10,000 miles of its network, a project potentially costing tens of billions of dollars.
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Kate Aronoff: The left is the only reason we’re talking about climate change at all

It’s become fashionable to suggest climate activists are too hard on Joe Biden. Being hard on Joe Biden is what got climate spending into the infrastructure package.
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LISTEN: World in Progress: Louisiana′s dwindling deltas

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the largest marine oil spill in history. More than a decade later, the oil and gas industry still dominates in the region. Oil's end result, in the form of a warming climate, has led to rising sea levels and erosion that are sinking the low-lying region into the sea.
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Ohio shows hostility to clean energy. Again

A new law allows county governments to veto state-approved wind and solar projects.

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Climate change calculator lets Britons estimate impact of green choices - from home heating to meat-free diets

The climate calculator lets users make decisions on things like flying, public transport, food and cars to see how they impact the UK's targets to fight climate change.
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Richard D. Kauzlarich: Climate goals and renewable deployment need competitive electricity markets

As the U.S. joins the rest of the world in fighting climate change, it will be critically important that power generators continue integrating renewable energy into their portfolios.

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Airlines need to do more than plant trees to hit net zero, MPs told

The aviation industry must pay for costly carbon removal technologies rather than rely on using the planting of trees to claim they are reducing emissions, the head of the Climate Change Committee has said.

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George Zulch: When global warming becomes too hot

The entire pandemic, as bad as it was, will just be absorbed into what is to come environmentally if we do not take drastic action to meet an ever-increasing severe global disaster. Polite, one-sided legislation just won't solve it.

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Merkel admits her efforts to counter climate change ‘not sufficient’

The chancellor acknowledged that her efforts to counter climate change were "not sufficient" and gave a cautious welcome to an agreement with the Biden administration to avoid US sanctions over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

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Jose Morey: From el fuego to innovation

Technology innovation is laying the pathway to help humanity in the energy transition we need to mitigate climate change.
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Lisa Konrad: Glaring injustices come with the federal oil and gas program

As a Mountain Mama, I am a strong advocate for the protection of our lands and waters so that our children can enjoy the outdoors.
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PBF shares tumble on new N. California air pollution regulation

Shares of oil refiner PBF Energy Inc fell more than 10% on Northern California's new air pollution requirement that could possibly shut down the company's Martinez refinery in the state.

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Michigan officials and climate justice advocates call for investment in clean transportation

Transportation accounts for almost a third of all U.S. emissions and is the single largest source of climate-harming carbon pollution in the U.S.

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Whistleblowers say 'bad seeds' undermine pipeline safety

Two former inspectors say they were "run off" after flagging problems on an ethane pipeline near Pittsburgh. Their claims highlight builders' control over safety checks.
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Pennsylvania regulators propose new pipeline rules where industry says none are needed

The proposed rules don’t follow industry recommendations but also don’t go as far as some environmental and citizen groups requested.
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Environmental policy's next test? Defining 'disadvantaged communities'

New York’s sweeping climate law will prioritize environmental justice communities — once it decides who they are.
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How strengthening the PNW’s electrical grid could end up doing harm

A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river’s advocates.
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Can Pittsburgh make ‘mobility as a service’ succeed?

The city's Move PGH pilot, modeled on a concept pioneered in Finland, promises seamless integration of transportation modes — a buzzy idea that hasn't yet caught on.

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