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Report: Drilling spills ruined wells and polluted streams in Westmoreland, across Pennsylvania

It has been more than four years since Edward and Alice Mioduski of Loyalhanna Township have been able to drink water from their well near Loyalhanna Lake.

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To woo Manchin, Dems could OK climate funds for coal and gas plants

Climate advocates consider the effort one of the core elements of Democrats' attempt to speed the transition toward solar and wind power and slash greenhouse gas emissions.
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Queen slams ‘irritating’ world leaders who talk but don’t deliver on climate change

‘I’ve been hearing all about COP … still don’t know who is coming,’ said the British monarch.
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Coldplay pledge 50% lower CO2 emissions on 2022 world tour

Band announce a range of initiatives to reduce energy consumption, including stadium floors that harness fans' kinetic energy.

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Electric vehicles have a weight problem

Batteries are heavy, and they’re getting heavier. It makes EVs pollute more than they need to, and be more deadly during crashes. But there are solutions.
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16 companies, people, and ideas that might save the planet

No single solution is likely to rescue us from the climate crisis, but four decades of intensive research and development have yielded innovation that could lead us to a cleaner and less volatile future.
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Prince Harry, Reinhold Mangundu: Protect the Okavango River Basin from corporate drilling

This African region is far more valuable in its natural state than any oil and gas reserves buried beneath it.
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Tracking environmental actions under Biden

President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy, while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.
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What’s behind the energy crunch in Britain and Europe?

Natural gas prices have skyrocketed, pressuring manufacturers and households with high energy bills.
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As western oil giants cut production, state-owned companies step up

In the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, government-owned energy companies are increasing oil and natural gas production as U.S. and European companies pare supply because of climate concerns.
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Private equity is quietly keeping fossil fuel companies in business

Vulture funds have spent $1.1 trillion snapping up energy companies over the past decade.
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Geoff Dembicki: Is Joe Manchin aware that his favorite climate technology is a total bust?

The conservative Democrat is insisting that Biden’s Build Back Better Act include funding for carbon capture projects. But even the fossil fuel industry admits the tech is a nonfactor in fighting global warming.
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Growing crops under solar panels? Now there’s a bright idea

In the new scientific (and literal) field of agrivoltaics, researchers are showing how panels can increase yields and reduce water use on a warming planet.
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Why tensions on Wet’suwet’en territory are escalating over Coastal GasLink

After TC Energy cleared an archaeological site, armed with permits issued by the province, Gidimt’en clan members and supporters set up a blockade to prevent the company from drilling under a river that’s part of an important salmon watershed
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Norway’s new government highlights fight against climate change. And continued oil drilling

The cabinet of Jonas Gahr Støre is making climate change and the High North top priorities. At the same time, it aims for reduced fuel prices and continued drilling in Arctic waters.
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Putin loads his energy weapon with alternative power

The Russian president says his country intends to make bigger CO2 emission cuts than the EU, and offers new energy partnerships with European leaders. Natural gas from the Arctic is key part of the plan.
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How Fairy Creek is influencing the Wet’suwet’en resistance

Northern BC land defenders dig in, borrowing tactics and eying court rulings from the big standoff on Vancouver Island.
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Biden to meet with Pope Francis to discuss coronavirus, climate change, poverty

President Biden will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican during a trip to Europe for two high-profile global summits, the White House announced.

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Joe Biden will attend COP26 climate change talks, says White Houses

President Biden will be one of around 120 leaders set to attend the COP26 climate summit, which aims to drive action to curb global warming and avoid its most dangerous impacts.

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$4.5B clean energy complex planned for southeast Louisiana

Industrial gas supplier Air Products announced Thursday it will build a $4.5 billion clean energy facility in Louisiana's capital region.

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Illegal air pollution in Texas dropped more than 50% during the pandemic. Experts fear it’s an outlier

A new report analyzing data gathered by the TECQ finds the drop stemmed largely from the pandemic-related downturn in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries, and rising production in 2021 is already leading to a comparable rise in illegal pollution.
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Prince William on space tourism: Let’s stop climate change before looking for new planet

Prince William, second in line to the British throne, has urged people to focus on saving Earth rather than exploring space. He made the remarks as 90-year-old actor William Shatner became the oldest person to fly to the edge of space aboard a rocket operated by Jeff Bezos's company, Blue Origin.

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The first big energy shock of the green era

There are grave problems with the transition to clean energy power. The current panic is a reminder that modern life needs abundant energy: without it, bills become unaffordable, homes freeze and businesses stall.

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Pennsylvania RGGI opponents mount tense last stand

Pennsylvania would be the first major fossil fuel producer to join RGGI, and it poses a crucial test of how the program might affect energy prices as the state seeks to cut emissions, experts say.
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Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030

Industry responsible for about 8% of CO2 emissions commits to reaching net zero by 2050 without offsetting.

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How to decarbonize aviation and steel

The steel and aviation industries are the first to reveal their pathways to net zero by 2050.
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If 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions, what can you do

If most of the problem is caused by enormous corporations and slow-moving governments, what am I supposed to do about it? Here’s what.
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California’s dirty little secret: oil wells in the backyard

Even Texas and Wyoming do a better job protecting communities from oil and gas drilling.
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Bears Ears is protected again. But for how long?

The seesaw of protection should end, and only Congress can end it.
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The electric car future is coming fast, but the power grid isn’t ready

By 2035, the chief automakers will have turned away from the internal combustion engine. It'll be up to the grid to fuel all those new cars, trucks and buses.

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Putin suggests Germany approve Nord Stream 2 to solve energy crisis

In his most direct comments to date on the contentious Russian pipeline, President Vladimir V. Putin called it an “obvious” way to relieve Europe’s soaring natural gas prices.
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Biden Administration plans wind farms along nearly the entire U.S. coastline

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her agency will formally begin the process of identifying federal waters to lease to wind developers by 2025.
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Why the U.N.’s biodiversity conference is so important

Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a collapse of the natural world that scientists say could equal climate change as an existential crisis.
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Natural gas and net zero: Can they coexist?

A new net-zero goal from CenterPoint Energy Inc., a Texas-based utility company, contains an eye-catching 2035 timeline that puts it 15 years ahead of many industry peers. But the pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions also arrives with asterisks that critics say undermine its value.

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Richard Dixon: Governments shouldn't think the public are daft about what needs to be done

A new public attitude survey on climate change shows that the public aren’t as daft as governments sometimes like to think.
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