Climate Regulation
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The Trump administration wants to take an ax to the East’s last great forests
The fight over the roadless rule has long focused on the West, but its repeal could fragment some of the last pristine forests in the eastern United States.
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![Ship in the distance on the water with palm trees in the foreground]()
The world desperately needs to decarbonize shipping. Can nations find a consensus?
The shipping industry is responsible for 3 percent of global climate emissions. The Trump administration and the Iran war are complicating efforts to clean it up.
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![Canoers paddle through the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota.]()
![Canoers paddle through the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota.]()
Republicans deployed a little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining
Legal experts say the use of the Congressional Review Act to open mining near the Boundary Waters could drastically reshape U.S. public lands protections.
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Data centers are straining the grid. Can they be forced to pay for it?
As backlash grows, a nationwide search is underway for solutions to the AI energy crunch.
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![An oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico seen from the shoreline at Fort Morgan, Alabama.]()
![An oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico seen from the shoreline at Fort Morgan, Alabama.]()
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ blocks endangered species protections in the Gulf of Mexico
Citing the Iran war, the administration let oil companies take actions that are likely to threaten an endangered whale.
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![A person drinks a frozen Starbucks drink with a green straw]()
Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash
A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
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![This aerial image taken on March 14, 2023 shows a tractor carrying oranges driving through an orchard in Arcadia, Florida.]()
![This aerial image taken on March 14, 2023 shows a tractor carrying oranges driving through an orchard in Arcadia, Florida.]()
With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock
The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.
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![A port filled with trucks carrying containers]()
California bets on an obscure tool to replace clean air authority Trump revoked
The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.
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Trump EPA moves to repeal regulation of cancer-linked chemical ethylene oxide
The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 sterilization facilities that emit the toxic chemical in neighborhoods across the country.
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![Signs at BP and Shell display prices for gasoline at stations in Chicago, Illinois, on March 2. The war in Iran has caused prices to surge.]()
![Signs at BP and Shell display prices for gasoline at stations in Chicago, Illinois, on March 2. The war in Iran has caused prices to surge.]()
As gas prices soar, Trump is ignoring the lessons of the last oil crisis
Fuel economy rules have reduced U.S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up — and then sent gas prices through the roof.
