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![A truck turns onto a road carting a shipping container from a port.]()
![A truck turns onto a road carting a shipping container from a port.]()
Electrify everything, California says — including trucks and trains
The unprecedented regulations will tackle air pollution and carbon emissions at the same time.
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![Water crashing over a road near Galveston Bay outside of Houston.]()
![Water crashing over a road near Galveston Bay outside of Houston.]()
The ‘Ike Dike’ is the Army Corps of Engineers’ largest project ever. It may not be big enough.
The $30 billion barrier may fail to block climate-fueled storm surge — and won’t prevent other urban flooding in Houston.
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The first natural-gas ban in the US just got shot down
A federal court overturned Berkeley's precedent-setting measure for new buildings, putting in jeopardy scores of similar rules.
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![President Joe Biden walks near Chevy vehicles as he arrives to deliver remarks during a visit to a General Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan.]()
![President Joe Biden walks near Chevy vehicles as he arrives to deliver remarks during a visit to a General Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan.]()
Biden’s new vehicle emissions rules could speed the EV revolution
But only if the U.S. gets a lot more minerals, factories, and chargers.
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![Photo of chargers at a Walmart parking lot.]()
![Photo of chargers at a Walmart parking lot.]()
Walmart just illustrated how mainstream EVs are now
The remedy for range anxiety? America's largest retailer is adding thousands of fast-charging stations.
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![Collage of children running with a view of the groundwater and bedrock below]()
![Collage of children running with a view of the groundwater and bedrock below]()
It’s not just oceans that are rising. Groundwater is, too.
As subterranean water inches higher, so do threats to air and water.
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![A man walks by shelves filled with heat pumps in an appliance store.]()
![A man walks by shelves filled with heat pumps in an appliance store.]()
Broken furnace? In the Bay Area, soon you’ll have to replace it with a heat pump
Regulators ban the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, starting in 2027.
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![People on a beach and swimming in Lake Michigan at Calumet Park with facility in background]()
![People on a beach and swimming in Lake Michigan at Calumet Park with facility in background]()
Chicago neighborhood groups sue US Army Corps of Engineers over expansion of a polluted dump
“Our community is fighting back and saying ‘no more.’”
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![A wastewater treatment plant which consists of a domed building next to a rectangular pool of water.]()
![A wastewater treatment plant which consists of a domed building next to a rectangular pool of water.]()
An unexpected source of methane? Your local sewage plant.
A new study says the plants emit twice as much methane as previously thought.
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In a growing petrochemical hub, the East Palestine derailment triggers ‘an uneasy feeling’
The Upper Ohio River Valley has been layered in industrial pollution for centuries, and residents are fed up.
