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The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.
Though marketed as clean energy, industrial pellet plants are driving deforestation, worsening floods, and polluting rural counties.
Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.
Internal documents show the Department of Energy knew the decision "may generate negative commentary" and be perceived as "undue favoritism."
The newsroom worked with partners to host listening sessions, and will create online and printed resources and launch a paid journalism training program.
Trump said coal needed better PR. Then Coalie showed up.
Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry the state will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.
If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America's farms?
Almost none of the storm's devastation will be paid out by insurance.
