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![Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin looks on during an announcement with US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House]()
![Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin looks on during an announcement with US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House]()
The rush to power data centers is weakening the Clean Air Act
New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own.
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![Collage of two people with their anxious silhouettes in the background containing wildfire and hurricane imagery]()
How to deal with burnout on a burning planet
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys.
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In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs
Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness.
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![A tractor drives along a farm, with a large coal-fired power plant in the background]()
![A tractor drives along a farm, with a large coal-fired power plant in the background]()
New research shows the world isn’t doing nearly enough to fix its food problem
Emissions from agriculture are trending up, but experts say progress must continue even as we blow past global deadlines.
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‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem
Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.
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![A picture of a sprawling liquefied natural gas export terminal, Plaquemines LNG, along the Mississippi River.]()
![A picture of a sprawling liquefied natural gas export terminal, Plaquemines LNG, along the Mississippi River.]()
On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US
Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG.
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![A row of oil pumpjacks in a field surrounded by mountains]()
The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it
In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.
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![A collage of national park landscapes in Utah, a car, the highway, a road map, wind turbines, and a prescribed burn landscape]()
![A collage of national park landscapes in Utah, a car, the highway, a road map, wind turbines, and a prescribed burn landscape]()
The great American road trip is in peril
Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.
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US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
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![A barge carrying pieces of an offshore wind farm preparing to leave harbor]()
![A barge carrying pieces of an offshore wind farm preparing to leave harbor]()
Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution.
