Climate Regulation
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![Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico]()
![Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico]()
EPA restores water protections weakened under Trump
Smaller waterways and wetlands will be covered again under Clean Water Act.
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![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
Days after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
Biden’s EPA will keep a Trump-era emissions standard for airplanes — that doesn’t actually cut emissions.
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![Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito Ruin Chaco Culture National Historic Park New Mexico]()
![Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito Ruin Chaco Culture National Historic Park New Mexico]()
Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site
The plan would stop all future drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.
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![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives
The new regulation is expected to prevent nearly 400 premature deaths over the next 15 years.
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![Collage: wolf illustration inside of the silhouette of Wisconsin with hunting rifles in the background]()
![Collage: wolf illustration inside of the silhouette of Wisconsin with hunting rifles in the background]()
Indigenous nations in Wisconsin suing to prevent wolf hunts
"Tribes don't want to see the wolf killed to extinction"
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![A gas flare burns at dusk in the Permian Basin in Texas, U.S.]()
![A gas flare burns at dusk in the Permian Basin in Texas, U.S.]()
In a first, the EPA will regulate methane from existing oil and gas wells
Almost a million wells are quietly belching methane. The new rule could halve emissions.
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![Chuck Schumer speaks at a rally against a power plant in Queens]()
![Chuck Schumer speaks at a rally against a power plant in Queens]()
New York rejects two new gas power plants as ‘inconsistent’ with climate law
The decision marks a milestone in an ongoing debate over the role of natural gas in net-zero plans.
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COP26 president says Glasgow climate goals harder to achieve than Paris
COP26 president Alok Sharma on the long road ahead for climate negotiations.
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![A swallows flies over a canal in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation]()
![A swallows flies over a canal in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation]()
Study: Toxic fracking waste is leaking into California groundwater
The research leaves little doubt: California is facing massive groundwater contamination.
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![Oil pump jack in front of a restaurant]()
![Oil pump jack in front of a restaurant]()
California proposes 3,200-foot buffer zone between oil wells and homes, schools
The new ruling, a key environmental protection, will impact 30 percent of oil wells in the state.
