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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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Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year
The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.
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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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![A man in jeans, a hoodie and baseball cap kneels in a parched field]()
Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.
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This summer, the American water crisis becomes real
Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the U.S., as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
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In coal country, black lung surges as federal protections stall
While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.
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California will soon have more than 300 data centers. Where will they get their water?
A proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more facilities expected to open in the state will be challenging, experts and officials say.
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The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s ecosystems
"It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal."
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How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage
A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.
