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![Power plant with two chimneys pouring out steam.]()
There’s only one statewide ballot this year in Georgia — and it’s important
A guide to the candidates who want to set future energy policy.
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![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
When the Trump administration moved to shut mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung disease, miners demanded it reverse course. It quietly did.
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![A person wearing a helmet with a face shield, a yellow vest, and gloves places a large, metallic, rectangular prism on an assembly line]()
![A person wearing a helmet with a face shield, a yellow vest, and gloves places a large, metallic, rectangular prism on an assembly line]()
Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers
The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it.
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The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
A federal judge in Phoenix provides a reprieve for Oak Flat.
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![Senators stand together under rotunda]()
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Analysts agree on one thing: Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars per household.
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![A field of cut down trees extends toward the forest and mountains]()
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Without U.S. funding, Indigenous communities in Peru and elsewhere face increasing threats to their land, livelihoods, and human rights.
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Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining
Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed.
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As Trump comes after research, Forest Service scientists keep working
Scientists describe how they’re preparing for the upcoming field season despite the challenges.
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![A man in a suit signs a piece of paper with people clapping behind him]()
Hawaiʻi makes history as first state to charge tourists to save environment
A Hawaiʻi vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law this week.
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![A person stands on a dirt road and inspects a rusty carbon capture well]()
![A person stands on a dirt road and inspects a rusty carbon capture well]()
What’s likely to survive from Biden’s climate law? The controversial stuff.
Most of the incentives left off the chopping block are those favored by oil and gas companies.
