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The EPA just walked back Hawai‘i’s plan to retire its dinosaur power plants
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.
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Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant
The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
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![The downtown of Murphy, a rural community in the mountains of North Carolina, is glimpsed through the trees.]()
![The downtown of Murphy, a rural community in the mountains of North Carolina, is glimpsed through the trees.]()
First crypto, now data centers: How tech is reshaping this North Carolina community
Cryptocurrency mines are being repurposed to power the AI boom, sparking a regional backlash.
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The Brazilian government keeps giving out mining licenses in the Amazon – in spite of evidence of gold ‘laundering’
An InfoAmazonia investigation found patterns of illegal gold laundering in the Tapajós River basin in Pará state, where Indigenous communities like the Munduruku people face mercury contamination from mining activity.
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The Supreme Court is deciding whether Roundup, America’s most-used herbicide, needs a cancer warning
The ruling could reshape pesticide regulation and test President Trump's base from within.
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The SEC tried to silence activist investors. Now they’re fighting back.
Small investors, shut out of an SEC communication platform called EDGAR, built their own. They call it POE.
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Illinois is feuding with itself over endangered species protections
The state Department of Transportation has sidestepped endangered species protections in 11 cases, according to public records.
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This Supreme Court ‘victory’ for oil giants is not what it seems
A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron and other oil majors to pay is far from over.
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![Environmental and Native American activists rally to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac.]()
![Environmental and Native American activists rally to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac.]()
Michigan wins key legal battle over Line 5 pipeline
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling clears the way for state court proceedings in the decades-long dispute over the pipeline crossing between Lakes Michigan and Huron.
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![Two cooling towers have a Google logo on them and a Texas and US flag draped over another]()
![Two cooling towers have a Google logo on them and a Texas and US flag draped over another]()
Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
