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Utah leaders hinder solar efforts despite need for more energy

Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to Utah’s power grid, but state Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the industry.

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How the US freight rail industry got dirtier than coal power plants

U.S. freight railroads are a major source of pollution, chuffing out more nitrogen oxide than all the nation’s coal-fired power plants combined.

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Catastrophic US floods linked to hotter climate

Rising temperatures and extreme rainfall might not seem connected, but they often are. Here's how.
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First climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific

The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said.

Aerial view of Marcellus Shale fracking well in Pennsylvania

Fracking waste threatens Permian Basin water supplies, imperils oil industry plans

Drilling is producting massive amounts of wastewater. That has regulators and companies scrambling for places to put it.
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‘Direct violation’: Alberta ignored its own rules by transferring wells to delinquent oil company, data suggests

New evidence suggests the Alberta Energy Regulator ignored a ministerial order — and critics say that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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EPA adds another industry insider as the administration’s lobbyist ranks grow

The nation’s main office for protecting Americans from harmful chemicals is welcoming its fourth prominent industry insider since President Trump took office, adding to an administration full of former lobbyists and corporate executives who are making environmental policy. 
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U.S. helped to weaken report at U.N. environment talks, participants say

American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.
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Proposed Ambler Access Road in Alaska divides Inupiaq community

In Northwest Alaska, Inupiaq villagers already struggling with vanishing caribou, declining salmon and record floods are split over a 211-mile mining road that promises jobs and minerals for the energy transition, but could further damage a fragile, rapidly warming landscape.

A child holding a protest sign that says Don't Frack Us!!

To feed data centers, Pennsylvania faces a new fracking boom

A surge of planned data centers in western Pennsylvania is driving proposals for massive new gas-fired power plants, raising alarms among residents and scientists who warn that expanded fracking will worsen air and water pollution and threaten public health.

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‘A planet in peril’: UN calls for global climate investment to unlock €17 trillion benefit by 2070

A sweeping new UN report says only a fundamental global shift away from fossil fuels and destructive resource use can prevent catastrophic climate impacts—while delivering trillions in economic benefits within decades.

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