Climate Regulation
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Gavin Newsom delayed his own ‘nation-leading’ plastic policy. Why?
Industry groups expressed concerns about California’s landmark plastic pollution law in the weeks before regulators were supposed to begin enforcing it.
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The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Two former EPA staffers on what the closure of the agency’s environmental justice offices means for the country and the "irony" of Trump’s agenda.
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Supreme Court declines to hear Republicans’ ‘Hail Mary’ effort to block climate lawsuits
The justices shrugged off a complaint described by legal experts as a “political stunt.”
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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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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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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.
