Climate Regulation
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Efforts were underway to prevent CO2 pipeline leaks. The Trump administration quietly derailed them.
The proposed safety rules would have been the first.
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How a Trump effort to cut environmental red tape could backfire
The White House is revoking its own authority to oversee implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act — and leaving a bureaucratic mess in its wake.
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![View of the Wall Street bull statue, facing its head.]()
Big banks abandoned a voluntary climate alliance. Now, critics are calling for new laws.
Environmental groups say state and international policymakers must step up to stop fossil fuel financing.
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Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it.
Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse.
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Exporting natural gas raises your power bills. Trump is doing it anyway.
The administration’s efforts to solve a so-called “energy emergency” might create an actual crisis.
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![EPA administrator Lee Zeldin at a podium]()
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Trump’s EPA wants to demolish the bedrock of US climate regulation. It won’t be easy.
The little-known “endangerment finding” has quietly enshrined climate action in U.S. policy.
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Trump’s attack on paper straws is mostly symbolic — but the plastics industry is celebrating
Trade groups are seizing the moment to call for fewer restrictions on plastics.
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![Digital collage of President Trump, smokestacks, and the EPA logo]()
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Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you?
Current and former EPA staff say millions of Americans could lose access to clean air and water.
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![Big black electric structures with wires draped between them against a dark blue sky, with a pink sunset and dark clouds at the bottom]()
![Big black electric structures with wires draped between them against a dark blue sky, with a pink sunset and dark clouds at the bottom]()
Colorado and Connecticut saved residents hundreds of thousands of dollars on their utility bills
Other states may soon follow suit.
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![Collage showing a hand holding a plastic bag, another hand crushing a bottle, the recycling symbol, and a petrochemical facility.]()
![Collage showing a hand holding a plastic bag, another hand crushing a bottle, the recycling symbol, and a petrochemical facility.]()
‘Plastics are awesome’: Inside the Energy Department’s partnership with the plastics industry
Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.
