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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Bails Out Over January 6 Condemnation

This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday. The move comes two days after a watchdog group surfaced private comments in which Sgamma condemned President Donald Trump’s […]


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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]


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Solar Has Been the World’s Fastest Growing Power Source for 20 Years Running

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40 percent of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered […]


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