Climate Regulation
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Your tax dollars may be funding the expansion of the plastics industry
Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.
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Climate change and boat strikes are killing right whales. Stronger speed limits could save them.
Nearly a century after we almost hunted them to extinction, fewer than 360 right whales remain.
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Detergent pods are only the start of clothing’s microplastic pollution problem
A New York City bill to ban laundry pods is just one of many proposed solutions.
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SEC will require companies to disclose emissions, with one glaring gap
The agency's new rule excludes 75% of companies' climate pollution.
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A new EU ecocide law ‘marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals’
Advocates hope that the EU’s move will have influence beyond Europe’s borders.
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Want clean electricity? These are the overlooked elected officials who get to decide.
As the Georgia Public Service Commission writes, "Very few governmental agencies have as much impact on people's lives."
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![A man with his back to the camera considers a row of new washing machines and dryers in an appliance shop.]()
Washers and dryers are about to get a whole lot more efficient
The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it.
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Supreme Court weighs blocking a federal plan to cut smog pollution
In an unusual move, opponents of the rule have asked the highest court to pause the rule even as dozens of lawsuits in lower courts remain undecided.
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Biden’s climate law fines oil companies for methane pollution. The bill is coming due.
Recent research suggests the IRA’s methane fee could batter the oil and gas industry to the tune of more than $1 billion.
