Climate Regulation
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![A crane lifts a section of pipeline into a trench]()
![A crane lifts a section of pipeline into a trench]()
CO2 pipelines are coming. A pipeline safety expert says we’re not ready.
Companies want to build pipelines to capture and store carbon, but a new report warns that regulators aren’t prepared.
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![Three containers filled with plastic waste]()
Rich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries, data suggests
A watchdog group alleges "rampant" violations of international law.
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![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
EPA to investigate racial discrimination in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Complaints allege that industrial facilities have discharged “excessive levels” of carcinogenic chemicals in a majority-Black community.
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![SEC chair Gary Gensler at Senate hearing]()
![SEC chair Gary Gensler at Senate hearing]()
New SEC rule requires companies to disclose how they’re approaching climate change
The proposed rule requires companies to disclose emissions — even, in some cases, scope 3 climate pollution stemming from their products.
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Inflation is at a 40-year high. Is clean energy the solution?
Fact-checking Biden's claims about inflation, renewables, and domestic manufacturing.
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Deep-sea mining could begin next year. Here’s why ocean experts are calling for a moratorium.
The risks vastly outweigh the potential benefits, they argue.
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![Ships are docked along refinery facilities at the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.]()
![Ships are docked along refinery facilities at the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.]()
Congressional watchdog warns of climate threats to chemical plants
More than a third of risky U.S. chemical facilities face threats exacerbated by global warming, according to a new report.
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![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
Colorado has an abandoned oil well problem. Now it’s asking drillers to pay up.
Colorado’s new oil and gas bonding rules ask for hundreds of thousands of additional dollars — but still might not cover all potential costs.
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![Two people with baskets collecting garbage on a mountain of trash]()
![Two people with baskets collecting garbage on a mountain of trash]()
World agrees to negotiate a ‘historic’ treaty on plastic pollution
By 2024, nations will broker a binding, international agreement to rein in plastic pollution — and production.
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![Protesters in street with stoplights and bus in background; sign reading]()
![Protesters in street with stoplights and bus in background; sign reading]()
How two years of community protest blocked this Chicago scrapyard
The decision, spurred by a hunger strike and a federal civil rights investigation, is a major win for environmental justice fights nationally.
