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Four key rulings limiting federal power will curtail the ability of the EPA and other agencies to write and enforce climate policies.
Regulators ban the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, starting in 2027.
US Magnesium, on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, left a legacy of environmental problems.
“There is not a house in this community that has not had a person who has suffered from some type of cancer or kidney failure.”
Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.
Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.
After weeks of debate at COP28, countries decide to “transition away” from oil and gas — while stopping short of a “phaseout.”
Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.
