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2024 will be the first year on record to smash a warming limit scientists warned about
New data confirms 2024 will be the hottest year on record and the first calendar year to exceed the Paris Agreement threshold — devastating news for the planet that comes as America chooses a president that has promised to undo its climate progress both at home and abroad.
Biden just finalized a major climate rule. This one could be tricky for Trump to dismantle
The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.
Supreme Court allows enforcement of Biden methane and mercury rules in rare win for the EPA
The Supreme Court on Friday let stand Biden administration rules that would cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane as well as mercury in a rare win for an environmental regulation pending before the conservative high court.
These NFL stadiums will soon moonlight as emergency shelters during disasters
In addition to hosting thousands of football fans, NFL stadiums are about to double as emergency response hubs during weather disasters.
Americans have saved billions with a law they know next to nothing about
Two years after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was signed, millions of Americans have used it to save millions of dollars on solar panels, appliances and home insulation.
Biden marks Earth Day with new solar energy funds and steps to stand up American Climate Corps
President Joe Biden travels to Triangle, Virginia, Monday to mark Earth Day, where he’ll unveil $7 billion in grant funding for solar power under the Inflation Reduction Act and announce new steps to stand up his administration’s American Climate Corps – a program popular with youth climate groups.
Biden administration strengthens Endangered Species Act protections weakened under Trump
The Biden administration on Thursday strengthened protections of the Endangered Species Act, repealing Trump-era rules that had stripped safeguards for plants and animals that are threatened by human development and the climate crisis.
Red/blue states compete for Biden’s climate funds - what they are planning
Dozens of states are rolling out new climate plans to tackle planet-warming pollution in preparation to compete for billions of dollars of funding in President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill.
Supreme Court signals skepticism over Biden ‘good neighbor’ smog plan
The Supreme Court’s conservatives expressed skepticism over the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce smog and air pollution wafting across state lines during arguments Wednesday in the most significant environmental dispute at the high court this year.
EPA cracks down on deadly air pollution with new rule – not strong enough, experts say
The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a key update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot – a step toward reducing deadly air pollution that’s been over a decade in the making.
New-wave reactor technology could kick-start nuclear renaissance — US banking on it
Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people on land using next-wave nuclear technology: small modular reactors.