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USDA pauses manure-to-gas loans amid high delinquency, project failures

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pausing a loan program aimed at promoting anaerobic digesters — many of which are issued for large-scale farms that turn animal waste into gas — to investigate high loan delinquency rates and underperformance.

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Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air

Wood pellets burned for electricity in Europe are fueling air pollution and health concerns in predominantly low-income towns in Mississippi and Louisiana.

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Documenting an Alaska village, before and after the storm that destroyed it

The story of Typhoon Halong’s destruction in Kipnuk adds an exclamation point to long-simmering fears about the future of Alaska coastal villages facing down climate change.
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Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds

More than 12,500 extreme climate events were registered in the Amazon biome between 2013 and 2023, according to a recent study, but many more events were never recorded.

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EPA limits consideration of health impacts from chemical and turbine rules

Recent EPA actions on perchlorate and gas turbines show a key shift in the agency’s regulatory approach.

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A look through a century of Times reporting from Antarctica

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.
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UN chemical expert: 'There's pressure on EU from US to weaken regulatory controls'

Chemical pollution remains one of the world’s most under-recognised crises. Dr Marcos A. Orellana, UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights since 2020, talks to EUobserver about the wide gap between the science and the political will, the hidden risks of hazardous chemicals.
EPA head Lee Zeldin at Turning Point USA event

Trump’s grant terminations upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Six cities and 13 nonprofit groups still cannot recoup millions of dollars after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this week overturned a lower court’s ruling that forbade the Trump administration from terminating or freezing grant funding for environmental justice, agricultural and climate programs.

Chinese-made BYD Atto 3 electric car showcased at the Paris Motor Show, France 2022.

As the U.S. and Canada clash, China stands ready to step in and sell the cars of the future

The Canada-China trade deal should make U.S. automakers worry, but it’s not surprising.
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US energy secretary calls for doubling global oil output in Davos

The world needs to more than double oil production, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at Davos, while criticising the European Union and the state of California for wasting money on what he described as inefficient green energy.

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‘Wrong side of history’: Report ties top polluters to countries blocking fossil fuel phaseout

Many state-owned fossil fuel firms that emitted the highest levels of pollution in 2024 went on to block a phaseout roadmap at COP30.

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