The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO2 emissions ...
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Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now

This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the last two decades, homeowners have ...
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the ...
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The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals in their drinking ...
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a ...
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Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies

Dozens of other fires broke out in Georgia and western North Carolina, which were both hard-hit by Hurricane Helene. In ...
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2023, Vasileios ...
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess

Could a private company create forecasts on its own without NOAA data? It would be difficult for one company to ...
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How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out

Stoiber and her colleagues at EWG keep an eye on the consumer-grade water filtration systems available in the US. The ...
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