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![Sierra Club of Hawaii Director Wayne Tanaka speaks at a news conference and rally in Honolulu, on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021.]()
![Sierra Club of Hawaii Director Wayne Tanaka speaks at a news conference and rally in Honolulu, on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021.]()
Aging fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor are leaking. Locals want the U.S. Navy to shut them down
Honolulu activists say "enough is enough"
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![Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prepare for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine “infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, June 24, 2021.]()
![Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prepare for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine “infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, June 24, 2021.]()
Manchin and Cortez Masto kill chances of reforming outdated hardrock mining law
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
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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.
