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Tribes in Minnesota are paying the steepest price for the steel industry’s mercury pollution
Steel companies that process taconite release a slew of pollutants — and they're suing the EPA over new regulations.
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![An LNG Tanker sailing under the flag of Palau is moored off the coast of Cyprus. The United States has become one of the world's largest LNG exporters over the past decade.]()
![An LNG Tanker sailing under the flag of Palau is moored off the coast of Cyprus. The United States has become one of the world's largest LNG exporters over the past decade.]()
The quick, quiet death of Biden’s natural gas export pause
Climate activists saw the policy as a major win. It fizzled out within six months.
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![Steam rises from the smokestacks to fill the night sky above the Miller coal Power Plant in Adamsville, Alabama.]()
![Steam rises from the smokestacks to fill the night sky above the Miller coal Power Plant in Adamsville, Alabama.]()
These Supreme Court decisions just made it harder to solve climate change
Four key rulings limiting federal power will curtail the ability of the EPA and other agencies to write and enforce climate policies.
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![animation of a recycling symbol with plastic trash in the center with one arrow moving away from and then back into the symbol on a loop]()
How to create a ‘world without waste’? Here are the plastic industry’s ideas.
A deep dive into the petrochemical industry's proposals for the global plastics treaty.
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![Three chimneys from a coal-fired electrical power plan send plumes of white smoke into a clear blue sky.]()
![Three chimneys from a coal-fired electrical power plan send plumes of white smoke into a clear blue sky.]()
Supreme Court blocks an EPA plan to curb ozone air pollution
Environmental advocates say the court’s decision in Ohio v. EPA shows it "is no longer neutral in cases involving environmental regulations.”
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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.
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![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.
