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Corn to Power Airplanes? Biden Administration Sets a High Bar.

April 30, 2024 - 17:28
Producers of biofuels like ethanol, which could help create a new generation of jet fuel, would have to overhaul their practices to receive tax credits.
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Energy Dept. Releases New Efficiency Rules for Water Heaters and Other Appliances

April 30, 2024 - 16:59
The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances, and conservative politicians are dialing up their criticisms.
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How Locals Saved ‘the Yosemite of South America’

April 30, 2024 - 13:57
A decade-long battle between a wealthy industrialist and a band of activists led to a surprising $63 million transaction.
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Cows Are Just an Environmental Disaster

April 30, 2024 - 10:46
The environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that climate technology is increasingly catching up to the world’s enormous need for clean energy.
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U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing

April 30, 2024 - 10:06
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.
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Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy

April 30, 2024 - 09:25
The White House wants federal agencies to keep climate change in mind as they decide whether to approve major projects.
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Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy

April 30, 2024 - 00:01
A subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp, Germany’s venerable steel producer, is landing major deals for a device that makes the clean-burning gas from water.
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Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize Use Courts to Contest Oil Projects

April 29, 2024 - 13:09
Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning.
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What Students Read Before They Protest

April 27, 2024 - 07:00
How Israel became the focus of so much of contemporary protest politics.
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I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want My Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change

April 27, 2024 - 07:00
Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.
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New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity

April 27, 2024 - 05:04
College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.
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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Seeks New Ways to Engage Visitors

April 27, 2024 - 05:02
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is rolling out two new exhibition halls and making its scientists more accessible. And don’t forget the dinosaurs.
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Five Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected

April 26, 2024 - 16:03
He has called for increased oil production and said that electric vehicles will result in an ‘assassination’ of jobs.
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How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations

April 26, 2024 - 08:16
The polarization of politics means that rules are imposed, gutted and restored with each election. Experts say that’s bad for the economy.
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6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

April 26, 2024 - 05:04
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Dennis Lehane, Claire Dederer, Chad L. Williams and more.
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The fight over the future of plastics

April 25, 2024 - 15:25
As countries negotiate a landmark agreement to reduce plastic pollution, the industry is fighting a battle over regulations and over its image.
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Energy Dept. Aims to Speed Up Permits for Power Lines

April 25, 2024 - 14:09
The Biden administration has expressed growing alarm that efforts to fight climate change could falter unless the electric grids are quickly expanded.
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Biden’s New Power Plant Rules: 5 Things to Know

April 25, 2024 - 14:00
The administration issued a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming.
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E.P.A. Severely Limits Pollution From Coal-Burning Power Plants

April 25, 2024 - 13:52
New regulations could spell the end for plants that burn coal, the fossil fuel that powered the country for more than a century.
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Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada

April 25, 2024 - 13:51
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.
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