Climate Regulation
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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.
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![Plastic pollution in Bangladesh]()
![Plastic pollution in Bangladesh]()
World must ‘restrain demand’ for plastic, OECD report says
Annual plastic production weighs as much as 45,500 Eiffel Towers.
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![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
The Biden administration is updating truck pollution standards
"We really should have been doing this yesterday"
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![Black silhouette of oil pumpjack with orange sunset in background]()
![Black silhouette of oil pumpjack with orange sunset in background]()
How New Mexico abandoned 1,000 oil and gas wells overnight
The state now claims it has more than 1,700 orphan well sites that will cost $290 million to clean up.
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![Black silhouette of small plane flying towards airport lights]()
![Black silhouette of small plane flying towards airport lights]()
A California county moves to protect children from lead poisoning — but some aren’t ready for the solution
Decision to ban sale of leaded aviation fuel triggers pushback from FAA and pilots.
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![Hurricane Dorian hits Cape Hatteras in North Carolina]()
![Hurricane Dorian hits Cape Hatteras in North Carolina]()
US flood risk is about to explode — but not for the reasons you think
A new study projects that the number of Americans exposed to flooding will double in 30 years. Development is largely to blame.
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![Flames from a flare stack at an oil refinery at dusk in Texas]()
![Flames from a flare stack at an oil refinery at dusk in Texas]()
There’s a hurricane-sized hole in Texas air quality data
A new report finds Texas regulators often miss pollution because its air monitors are disabled during hurricanes.
