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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments

An AI-powered platform generated at least 20,000 emails that helped defeat a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California, records show.

www.latimes.com
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A case for avoiding contrails before we have all the answers

According to a comprehensive modeling study, the climate benefits of contrail avoidance depend on speed, not perfection.

www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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Lawmakers debate how to regulate data centers’ diesel backup generators

The use of data centers' diesel generators have become a flashpoint in communities concerned about the health impacts of the emissions.

virginiamercury.com
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Singapore ups flying costs to fund sustainable aviation fuel

Singapore is piloting the world’s first sustainable aviation fuel levy. It will slightly raise prices for airline passengers and cargo carriers flying to and from the city-state of 6 million people, home to Southeast Asia’s busiest airport.
apnews.com
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Opinion: Federal climate rollback raises new risks for Wisconsin’s energy future

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's climate rollback comes just as Wisconsin communities, farms and businesses invest in clean energy and resilient infrastructure.

wisconsinexaminer.com
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Trump’s coal revival keeps Michigan plant open at high cost to residents

Critics say the move to prop up aging coal facilities could lead to dozens of premature deaths annually while shifting financial burdens onto ratepayers.

www.bloomberg.com
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Pennsylvania spent big on a 'petrochemical renaissance.' It never arrived

Visions of a booming hub that would bring jobs and prosperity to Appalachia faded, but the plastic “nurdles” remain.
capitalandmain.com
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Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate.

www.theguardian.com
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A new electronic nose’ measures methane ... on the cow

Most existing sensors struggle to isolate methane in the very noisy chemical landscape of a cattle farm. This new invention may change that.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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The oil industry's latest disaster: Trillions of gallons of buried toxic wastewater

Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.
www.desmog.com
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California pays farms to make biogas from hog waste in North Carolina, where locals say it’s fueling pollution

Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from transportation fuels. The operations’ permits already have civil rights complaints against them for the pollution from the process.
insideclimatenews.org
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Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure

Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mandate to protect human health.

www.theguardian.com
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Notoriously hazardous South L.A. oil wells finally plugged after decades of community pressure

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that state oil and gas regulators have permanently closed one of the most infamous drill sites in Los Angeles, bringing an end to a decades-long community campaign to prevent dangerous gas leaks and spills from rundown extraction equipment.

www.latimes.com
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Michigan sues fossil fuel companies while Alberta protects them

While Michigan lawmakers are taking fossil fuel companies to court for delaying the green transition, the Alberta government is hampering clean energy.
www.desmog.com
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Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
floodlightnews.org
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Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate

Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the landmark legal opinion underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change.

www.washingtonpost.com
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum U.S. Secretary of the Interior speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

Burgum calls energy transition a ‘fantasy’ as EPA guts climate regulations

The Interior secretary cast doubt on widely accepted climate science and touted plans to build out the nation’s reserves of critical minerals.
www.eenews.net
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Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Twenty-nine global banks reject financing a Papua New Guinea LNG project led by TotalEnergies, citing climate, environmental and human rights concerns.
news.mongabay.com
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