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Over the last two decades, state regulators have allowed companies to release more than a billion pounds of excess pollution.
Here are the types of extreme weather you may face — from tornadoes to floods to snow storms — and the officials who determine how severe it is and how financial assistance is distributed.
Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.
That's because chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol are also potent greenhouse gases.
Now they're turning to the UN for help.
As much as $20 billion in upgrades will be required, but the electric vehicle transition could still reduce rates statewide.
The trend is bad news for shelters and wildlife alike.
As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.
Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso offer a devil’s bargain: new power lines for clean energy transmission at the cost of more fossil fuels.
