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[TRENDING NEWS] Cumbre climática de Glasgow: cinco claves de los primeros días

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: November 7, 2021 at 01:00AM Los líderes mundiales ya se marcharon de Glasgow. Ahora los negociadores deben trabajar para lograr que las promesas y metas medioambientales sean una realidad.

[TRENDING NEWS] More Than 30 Countries Join U.S. Pledge to Slash Methane Emissions

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: October 12, 2021 at 12:29AM Methane is the second largest driver of global warming after carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists say the promised cuts could help avert the worst consequences of climate change.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Administration to Restore Climate Criteria to Landmark Environmental Law

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: October 7, 2021 at 12:54AM A proposed rule would require agencies to study the climate impacts of new highways, pipelines and other projects, reversing a Trump-era effort to weaken reviews.

[TRENDING NEWS] Oil Spill Off California Coast Sends 126,000 Gallons Into the Pacific

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Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR AND MELINA DELKIC - Publish Date: October 4, 2021 at 12:21AM The spill created a 13-square-mile slick that extended from Huntington Beach to Newport Beach as dead fish and birds began to wash ashore in some areas.

[TRENDING NEWS] Sherwood Boehlert, a G.O.P Moderate in the House, Dies at 84

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Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: September 25, 2021 at 12:09AM A champion of environmentalism who chided climate-change skeptics, he was among the last of the relatively progressive Rockefeller Republicans.

[TRENDING NEWS] The E.P.A. will revise a Trump-era rule on toxic wastewater from coal plants.

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: July 27, 2021 at 12:46AM The agency said the changes will prevent lead, selenium and other toxic pollutants from contaminating waterways.

[TRENDING NEWS] More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future

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Author: BY IVAN PENN, CLIFFORD KRAUSS AND TAMIR KALIFA - Publish Date: July 11, 2021 at 11:47PM The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from large solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Aims to End Arctic Drilling. A Trump-Era Law Could Foil His Plans.

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT AND HENRY FOUNTAIN - Publish Date: June 3, 2021 at 04:02AM The administration suspended leases that were auctioned in the waning days of the Trump White House. But a 2017 law requires another sale.

[TRENDING NEWS] Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a ‘Tipping Point’

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Author: BY SOMINI SENGUPTA - Publish Date: May 29, 2021 at 02:00PM A surprising mix of environmentalists, pension fund managers and big money investors have scored startling victories against oil and coal, opening new battle fronts in the climate fight.

[TRENDING NEWS] It’s Crunch Time and Biden’s Climate Gambit Faces Steep Hurdles

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Author: BY LISA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: May 23, 2021 at 06:29AM He wants to require power companies to replace fossil fuels with clean energy. It’s a broadly popular idea but its path in Congress is perilous.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘¿Lo necesito?’: la pandemia ha hecho que mucha gente se duche menos

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Author: BY MARIA CRAMER - Publish Date: May 9, 2021 at 06:00PM Algunas personas dijeron que empezaron a bañarse menos durante la pandemia. Mientras nadie se queje, dicen que planean mantener el nuevo hábito.

[TRENDING NEWS] Florida Plans to Close Wastewater Reservoir Where Leak Forced Evacuations

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Author: BY AZI PAYBARAH - Publish Date: April 14, 2021 at 07:45AM A potential deluge of millions of gallons of water from a former phosphate mine had threatened homes south of Tampa.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden to Free Up Billions in Delayed Puerto Rico Storm Aid

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Author: BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE AND PATRICIA MAZZEI - Publish Date: February 2, 2021 at 07:32AM The administration plans to release $1.3 billion that was meant to help Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria in 2017, and will remove restrictions on another $4.9 billion.

[TRENDING NEWS] A Push Emerges for the First Native American Interior Secretary

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: November 21, 2020 at 06:43AM An expanding coalition of Native Americans, liberal activists and Democrats in Congress are demanding an American Indian Interior secretary, and they want Deb Haaland.

[TRENDING NEWS] A Year of Devastation in Arizona’s Wild Lands

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Author: BY LAIKEN JORDAHL - Publish Date: November 2, 2020 at 07:00AM Living and working along the U.S.-Mexico border has meant watching the surreal, slow-motion leveling of the fragile ecosystems I’ve spent my career fighting to protect.

[TRENDING NEWS] Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: September 25, 2020 at 07:41AM The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.

[TRENDING NEWS] Chief Executive of Embattled Alaskan Mine Project Resigns

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Author: BY HENRY FOUNTAIN - Publish Date: September 24, 2020 at 06:55AM The executive made “offensive” remarks about the state’s political leaders, the company said, in meetings recorded by an environmental group.

[TRENDING NEWS] Federal Report Warns of Financial Havoc From Climate Change

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT AND JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: September 9, 2020 at 07:24AM A report commissioned by President Trump’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued dire warnings about climate change’s impact on financial markets.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Climate ‘Hot 10 Songs’

Author: BY KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS - Publish Date: May 22, 2020 at 08:51AM A keen ear could hear the theme of global warming starting to swell in popular music all across the dial in the last two decades as global temperatures started to rise.

[TRENDING NEWS] Judge Vacates Oil and Gas Leases on 145,000 Acres in Montana

Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: May 2, 2020 at 07:19AM A federal judge, rapping the Trump administration for its weak environmental assessments, has vacated hundreds of oil and gas leases across a large swath of Montana.