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"In between his posts on Truth Social announcing nominees for his incoming administration, President-elect Donald Trump urged Republicans Wednesday to nix a bipartisan bill that would give journalists greater protections under federal law."
"Federal agencies set a record for censoring and withholding documents sought through freedom-of-information requests in Trump's first term. Now it's likely to be much worse."
"The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the Colorado River’s water in a way that would protect the river basin and the West’s largest single water source – and do it before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to a source familiar with the negotiations."
"Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office."
"For many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming and have been tasked with taking the lead in stopping it. China’s astonishing rise is upending that dynamic."
"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."
"Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move"
"The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner."
"The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty."
"As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging."
"Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Friday that President-elect Trump’s reported plans to cut consumer subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) would benefit China."
"Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next year. He’ll take over for the panel’s current top Republican, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who will become the upper chamber’s No. 2 Republican next year."
"President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal."
"A former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, Sean Duffy, was named on Monday by President-elect Donald J. Trump as his choice to lead the Transportation Department."
"The battle to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius has been a rallying cry for climate action for nearly a decade. Now, with the planet almost certain to blow past the target, diplomats and campaigners at the COP29 summit have found themselves awkwardly clinging to a goal that no longer makes sense."
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