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Jay Schabel, president of the plastics division at Brightmark, holds waste plastic from what he described as medical hip replacement parts at the company's new chemical recycling plant in northeast Indiana at the end of July. The plant is designed to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel, naphtha, and wax. Credit: James Bruggers

EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling

By James Bruggers

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee hearing titled Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of Energy, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Federal Hydrogen Program Is Cutting Out Local Groups, Threatening Climate Goals, Advocates Say

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Aerial view of suburban development named in Chandler, Arizona, featuring lakes, lush golf courses, and water-guzzling lawns. Credit: Wild Horizon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Arizona Announces Phoenix Area Can’t Grow Further on Groundwater

By Wyatt Myskow

Keely Fisher, an Ohio State University graduate student, is one of many people on campus who fear the ramifications of a legislative proposal that seeks to regulate discussions of climate policy in higher education. Credit: Dan Gearino

Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies

By Dan Gearino

Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threw a ceremonial budget bill-signing party on May 24, 2023 on the State Capitol steps. Credit: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

By Aydali Campa

Ghana's Betty Osei Bonsu, representing the Green Africa Youth Organization, a nongovernmental group, will be attending next week’s U.N. negotiating session to develop a legally binding treaty to curb plastic pollution. Credit: World Wildlife Fund.

On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’

By James Bruggers

In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski

The Plummer wetlands, with Lake Chatcolet in the background in northern Idaho at Heyburn State Park. The Supreme Court decision on Thursday centered on a property dispute involving wetlands near Priest Lake in Idaho. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Supreme Court Sharply Limits the EPA’s Ability to Protect Wetlands

By Emma Ricketts

Ascend Performance Materials' adipic acid plant near Pensacola, Florida. Credit: Agya Aning

A US Non-Profit Aims to Reduce Emissions of a Super Climate Pollutant From Chemical Plants in China

By Phil McKenna

The headquarters of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28, 2021. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Companies Object to Proposed SEC Rule Requiring Them to Track Emissions Up and Down Their Supply Chains

By Emma Ricketts

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland testifies during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the "President's Budget Request for the U.S. Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2024," in Dirksen Building on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right

By Grant Schwab

Trash is flattened and spread out across a hilllside before being covered with dirt at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Federal Regulations Fail to Contain Methane Emissions from Landfills

By Phil McKenna, Amy Green

A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski

Canadian activist and artist, Benjamin von Wong is pictured in front of his 30-foot monument themed 'turn off the plastics tap' created using plastic waste from Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera, standing outside the venue of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi on Feb. 22, 2022. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It

By James Bruggers

State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia Democrat, and Stephanie Wein, a water and conservation advocate at PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group talk after a press conference at city hall. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

As EPA Proposes Tougher Rules on Emissions, Report Names Pennsylvania as One of America’s Top Polluters

By Victoria St. Martin

A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Sept. 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

New Study Bolsters Case for Pennsylvania to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Jon Hurdle

President Joe Biden announces plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the efforts to combat climate change, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2023. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Power Plant Plan Gives Industry Time, Options for Cutting Climate Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

In a file photo, John Podesta, who became President Joe Biden's chief climate advisor earlier this year. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor in President Barack Obama's White House. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.

Biden’s Top Climate Adviser Signals Support for Permitting Deal with Fossil Fuel Advocates

By Marianne Lavelle

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