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The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
The state legislature passed a bill that will add a surcharge for customers in the short term, but should pay it back more than 10-fold over the next 20 years.
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.
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
But even products certified as "compostable" are causing headaches.
“No matter what happens we will stand, and we will fight, and we will keep pushing for solutions.”
The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.
The Mojave Desert species is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
