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The state’s largest ever settlement for “forever chemicals" holds DuPont and its spin-offs accountable for contamination at four sites and ensures taxpayers won't be left with the cleanup bill.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
A $2.4 billion upgrade is shaving minutes off Caltrain trips through Silicon Valley, doubling weekend ridership, and reducing riders’ exposure to toxic diesel pollution.
Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.
All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.
The company’s climate strategy could result in more emissions than it prevents.
U.S. sanctions helped cause the near-total collapse of Venezuelan oil production — damage that President Trump is now using as justification for his military strike against the country.
