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"The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, and the grid operators responsible for maintaining reliability all agree it’s safe to shut them down."
"Advocates are ramping up pressure on the Maryland Public Service Commission to penalize Washington Gas Light Company following a March ruling which found that the company misled millions of customers by claiming methane gas was better for the environment than electricity."
"After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete."
"Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech."
"Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a long-time Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020."
"Domestic factories that make batteries to store power to meet America’s rising energy demand depend on Chinese components and federal subsidies."
"President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a sweeping overhaul of federal agencies’ handling of scientific research, coupled with a requirement to revisit all Biden-era regulations to ensure that they mesh with the new policy."
"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to stop government scientists from publishing their work in major medical journals on a podcast Tuesday as part of his escalating war on institutions he says are influenced by pharmaceutical companies."
"A planned fish farm off Florida’s Gulf Coast has received an environmental permit allowing operators to discharge nutrient-laden water from what could be the first commercial-scale saltwater aquaculture operation in the Gulf of Mexico."
"In his call Friday for a nationwide expansion of new nuclear power plants, President Donald Trump has set up a potentially historic showdown between his authority and the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. standard-setter for nuclear safety for the past half-century."
"The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times."
"The Interior bureau that holds the key to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda is riven by feuding between career staff and an emissary from Elon Musk’s budget-cutting operation."
"President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly unlikely to reach."
"The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S."
"Maryland legislators and environmental advocates expressed dismay after Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a series of widely supported climate and environmental study bills last week, actions they believe not only mark a sharp departure from his climate promises, but also reflect a breakdown in communication between the governor and members of his own party in the legislature."
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