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Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Money for Recycling, But the Debate Over Plastics Rages On

The industry sees bipartisan support for “sustainable” plastics, while environmentalists call that an oxymoron and say the funding will have limited impact.

By James Bruggers

Concerns Linger Over a Secretive Texas Company That Owns the Largest Share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

By David Hasemyer

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

TerraPower founder Bill Gates speaks in a recorded video message during a June 2 news conference at the Wyoming state Capitol in Cheyenne, announcing efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project. “We think Natrium will be a game-changer for the energy industry,” Gates said. “Wyoming has been a leader in energy for over the century and we hope our investment in Natrium will help Wyoming to stay in the lead for many decades to come.” Credit: Michael Cummo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle

Bill Gates’ Vision for Next-Generation Nuclear Power in Wyoming Coal Country

By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, and Judy Fahys, Inside Climate News

In Glasgow, COP26 Negotiators Do Little to Cut Emissions, but Allow Oil and Gas Executives to Rest Easy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Confusion Over Line 5 Shutdown Highlights Biden’s Tightrope Walk on Climate and Environmental Justice

By Kristoffer Tigue

New Report Expects Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to Rebound to Pre-Pandemic High This Year

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Plagued by Daily Blackouts, Puerto Ricans Are Calling for an Energy Revolution. Will the Biden Administration Listen?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels

By Tom Wilson

Raging Flood Waters Driven by Climate Change Threaten the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

By David Hasemyer

A worker watches as molten iron flows into a furnace for purification and alloying to become steel at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks on Jan. 13, 2010 in Duisburg, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Can the World’s Most Polluting Heavy Industries Decarbonize?

By Fred Pearce

After Ida, Louisiana Struggles to Tally the Environmental Cost. Activists Say Officials Must Do Better

By James Bruggers

Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

By Dan Gearino

Global Methane Pledge Offers Hope on Climate in Lead Up to Glasgow

By Phil McKenna

In the Democrats’ Budget Package, a Billion Tons of Carbon Cuts at Stake

By Marianne Lavelle

Biggest “Direct Air Capture” Plant Starts Pulling in Carbon, But Involves a Fraction of the Gas in the Atmosphere

By Leslie Hook, Financial Times

To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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