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Coal Plant Ranked as Nation’s Dirtiest Asks for Pollution Exemption
The nation’s most polluting coal-burning power plant has asked President Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air pollution after the administration recently invited companies to apply for presidential pollution waivers by email.The aging Colstrip power plant...
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Investigation of ranch in northern Mexico reveals some details of Jalisco cartel’s operations
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The renewed investigation of a ranch in western Mexico, where authorities say the Jalisco New Generation Cartel trained recruits, has revealed some details about how one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels operates.The cartel,...
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US earthquake safety relies on federal employees’ expertise
Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. Collectively, we either prepare for future earthquakes or the population eventually pays the price. The earthquakes that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, collapsing buildings and causing...
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Collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to develop and scale sustainable energy systems
MIT and GE Vernova today announced the creation of the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance to...
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The Panama Canal’s other conflict: Water security for the population and the global economy
The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal’s locks...
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For plants, urban heat islands don’t mimic global warming
It’s tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables...
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The Swedish city fined for missing an environmental target
MaryLou CostaBusiness reporterHappy Visuals GoteborgNegotiating an SLL is a rigorous, complex process - one that took the City of Gothenburg a year to do, with no fewer than six major Nordic banks involved.Such is the difficulty of acquiring an...
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Pension Funds Push Forward on Climate Goals Despite Backlash
In the past few months, some of the largest banks and asset managers in the United States have quit net zero networks, the climate groups that encourage their members to set ambitious carbon reduction targets and collaborate internationally on...
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As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans
Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment. As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to...
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After RFK Jr. recommends vitamin A as a measles treatment, some Texas patients show signs of toxicity
Weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. touted vitamin A as an effective treatment for measles amid the largest outbreak of disease in decades, hospitalized patients in West Texas are being treated for signs of vitamin...
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Eastern German leaders meet to discuss future of the region
The premiers of the five states in eastern Germany are meeting in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the future...