Climate Regulation
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![Aerial view of refineries and storage tanks adjacent to a neighborhood of houses]()
![Aerial view of refineries and storage tanks adjacent to a neighborhood of houses]()
Real-time data show the air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ is even worse than expected
A new study finds levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide that are nine times higher than those estimated by the EPA’s models.
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![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
Caving on climate: Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York
The state’s Democratic governor is sacrificing a landmark climate policy to score political points.
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![Aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. A small patch on the right is deforested.]()
![Aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. A small patch on the right is deforested.]()
Can carbon offsets actually work? The Biden administration thinks so.
New guidelines aim to restore confidence in the controversial climate solution.
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A pot of unspent federal money could have prevented Jackson’s water crisis
A new report surfaces a trail of red flags that the EPA didn’t raise.
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![Trailer tipping garbage into dump]()
![Trailer tipping garbage into dump]()
Landfills leak methane with impunity, new research shows
“Something is wrong with the system.”
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![Electric workers in a boom lift work on a transmission line with a snow-capped mountain in the background.]()
![Electric workers in a boom lift work on a transmission line with a snow-capped mountain in the background.]()
America’s grid isn’t ready for a renewable future. A new federal rule could change that.
The regulation requires grid operators to develop plans to build out the transmission needed to deliver on Biden’s climate agenda.
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![Dozens of people sit in a large conference room, some with laptops and placards on tables in front of them]()
![Dozens of people sit in a large conference room, some with laptops and placards on tables in front of them]()
UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’
A deal to stop plastic pollution is moving forward, but negotiators can’t agree on whether to produce less of the stuff.
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![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late
Will utilities clean up toxic waste at power plants, or run out an election-year clock?
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![diagonally framed rows of white airplanes from an aerial view]()
![diagonally framed rows of white airplanes from an aerial view]()
US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.
Excessive levels of PFAS have been detected at 80 percent of active and decommissioned military bases.
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![Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Cancer Alley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]()
![Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Cancer Alley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]()
Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law
Twenty-three states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice.
