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Breadcrumbs (literally) lay path away from fossil fuels

Researchers have developed a carbon-negative method for hydrogenation that uses bacteria fed on waste bread to generate hydrogen for chemical reactions.

Refinery and petrochemical industrial plant

An oil refinery defined life in this quaint California city. What happens when it’s gone?

For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia’s economy, politics and health. Now the city has become a reluctant test case of whether an oil town can reinvent itself
Two oil and gas pump jacks against the sunset sky

Colorado's oil and gas industry is vastly underestimating methane emissions

Watching from the sky, researchers find planet-warming pollutants leaking into the atmosphere are undercounted by at least two times.
School of fish around a coral reef

US government is accelerating coral reef collapse, scientists warn

Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign at the headquarters building in Washington, DC.

Trump EPA lays off more environmental justice staff

The move to cut more workers will further cement the administration’s deregulatory agenda for a smaller agency.
A power plant on a sunny day with a field in the foreground

Will feds step in if Saskatchewan breaks law on phasing out coal?

The Canadian government requires provinces to shutter coal-fired power plants by 2030, but the Prairie province is refurbishing its fossil fuel fleet.

Bureau of Land Management sign for the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah.

Former New Mexico congressman Pearce faces questions about public lands views as he seeks federal post

Democratic senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee keyed in on Steve Pearce's previous statements about public land selloffs.
View of the beach and palm trees from above

Florida House to consider ban on local ‘net-zero’ policies

The work that more than a dozen local governments have undertaken over the past 15 years to combat climate change could be eliminated if legislation making its way to the floor of the Florida House gets passed into law later this year.

The Mackinaw Bridge stretching across a body of water at sunset

Supreme Court weighs venue fight in Michigan Line 5 pipeline dispute

he Supreme Court heard arguments this week over whether Enbridge can move Michigan’s lawsuit to shut down the Line 5 oil pipeline from state to federal court, a procedural battle that could shape the future of the aging pipeline beneath the Great Lakes.

The Argentinian "Esperanza" Base at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula. Red buildings dotting the landscape.

Antarctica’s mineral riches exposed as climate warms

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.
A pair of emperor penguins

Satellites reveal new climate threat to emperor penguins

Ice loss in the Antarctic Ocean may be killing the sea birds during their molting season.

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