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![A collage of a photograph of a coal plant, the logo of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a photograph of President Joe Biden signing a piece of paper.]()
![A collage of a photograph of a coal plant, the logo of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a photograph of President Joe Biden signing a piece of paper.]()
Inside Biden’s uphill battle to restore the EPA after Trump
“We've seen more and more regulatory capture of our environmental agencies.”
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Cities voted for green building codes. Now developers want to end voting.
Powerful lobbying groups are fighting to block cities from having a final say over building codes that could cut pollution and make energy bills cheaper.
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The First 100 – Joe and Justin’s Parisian bromance
A short-run weekly newsletter analyzing federal climate action during the first months of the Biden administration. Hello, I’m Shannon Osaka, and today is Day 38 of the Biden administration. This week, the president started to nail down his Paris plans — and faced Republican backlash. When it comes to international agreements on climate change, […]
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![A photo collage of Steve Daines and Marsha Blackburn with a red square behind them.]()
How Republicans are responding to Biden’s climate agenda — in public and in private
Steve Daines of Montana and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee unveiled two measures aimed at undercutting the Paris Agreement.
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![A photograph of Congresswoman Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2021.]()
![A photograph of Congresswoman Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2021.]()
Deb Haaland isn’t as ‘radical’ as some Republican senators think
For some Indigenous environmental advocates and Democrats, the opposition to Haaland’s nomination smacks of racism and a resistance to progress.
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‘It’s in our DNA’: Tiny Costa Rica wants the world to take giant step
President Carlos Alvarado Quesada says the time is finally right for an international agreement to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change.
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What Biden could learn from Bill Clinton’s unfinished work on environmental justice
"The boogeyman when you’re fighting systemic racism is implementation."
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![A photograph of a field of corn in front of an ethanol plant.]()
Why won’t Joe Biden let ethanol die already?
The biofuel’s clean promise has only led to dirtier air.
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US rejoins Paris accord with warning: This year’s talks are ‘last, best hope’
John Kerry made remark as the U.S. officially returned to the climate agreement on Friday, 107 days after it left under Donald Trump.
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![Two overlapping circles with the top-most containing a photo of President Biden and the lower circle containing a photo of a mechanical turbine.]()
The First 100 – A climate tech agency takes shape
ARPA-C will support everything from capturing, removing, and storing carbon emissions to developing sustainable fuels for airplanes and ships.
