EPA enforcement actions hit 10-year low in 2017

Peter Dykstra

The number of new enforcement actions initiated by the EPA has fallen significantly over the past year.

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22m

Data center Project Jupiter’s greenhouse gas emissions could rival NM’s largest cities

Developers of Project Jupiter are seeking state approval for emissions that could surpass the combined greenhouse gases of Albuquerque and Las Cruces, while advocates warn the split-permit approach skirts regulations meant to limit major air pollution sources.

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From extreme heat to poor mental health: How climate change is harming the workplace

Experts warn rising extreme heat is boosting global worker health risks, cutting productivity, and worsening safety under climate change.

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Blown away: The wind turbine project caught in a Trump battle

A new episode of Stories From The States examines how the Trump administration’s abrupt halt of the nearly finished Revolution Wind project rattled union workers along the New England coast and threatened Rhode Island and Connecticut’s decarbonization plans.

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34m

‘Divide and conquer’: Inside the oil and gas strategy to thwart EU green laws

Major U.S. fossil fuel companies, working through PR firm Teneo, coordinated an aggressive campaign to dilute the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by aligning decision makers with far-right factions and leveraging U.S.–EU trade tensions.

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37m

Ocean microplastics mess up carbon cycle understanding

Microplastics mixed into ocean samples can make plastic-derived carbon appear indistinguishable from natural organic matter, potentially distorting long-standing assessments of the marine carbon cycle and climate models built on those data.

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05 December

‘Renewable’ no more: The Trump administration renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now calling it the National Laboratory of the Rockies, marking an identity shift for the Golden, Colorado institution that has been a global leader in wind, solar and other renewable energy research.

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