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Biden restores climate change page to EPA website, reversing Trump

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restored a page containing key climate change information to its public website on Thursday, four years after the Trump administration had removed it as part of a strategy to downplay global warming threats.

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Once united in support of Biden, environmentalists and unions clash over pipelines

Environmentalists and labor unions that threw their support behind U.S. President Joseph Biden now find themselves on the opposite sides of a battle over the construction of big pipeline projects between Canada and the United States.

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Biden plan to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges

President-elect Joe Biden's promise to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars a year for drillers and miners could be hard to keep due to resistance from lawmakers in a narrowly divided Congress, including from within his own party.

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Spain proposes EU carbon tax on energy imports

Spain's acting government has called on the European Union to assess a potential carbon tax on power imports to protect the bloc's interests and help it to pursue its environmental targets amid growing public concern over climate change.

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Trump administration reconsiders rule on coal's mercury pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Wednesday it was reconsidering part of an Obama-era rule on emissions of mercury from coal-fired plants, in the latest move by the administration to ease regulations on an industry important to President Donald Trump's political base.

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At 'America First Energy Conference', solar power is dumb, climate change is fake

Pumping carbon dioxide into the air makes the planet greener; the United Nations puts out fake science about climate change to control the global energy market; and wind and solar energy are simply "dumb".

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Trump energy aide Catanzaro heads back to lobbying firm

President Donald Trump's top aide on domestic energy issues, including biofuels quotas and scrapping Obama-era rules on car and power plant carbon emissions, is stepping down to return to the lobbying practice he left last year, a White House official said on Tuesday.

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Biden restores climate change page to EPA website, reversing Trump

Once united in support of Biden, environmentalists and unions clash over pipelines

Biden plan to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges

Spain proposes EU carbon tax on energy imports

Trump administration reconsiders rule on coal's mercury pollution

At 'America First Energy Conference', solar power is dumb, climate change is fake

Trump energy aide Catanzaro heads back to lobbying firm

Greenland landslide triggered global seismic event for nine days

Houston faces growing threats from hurricanes and heat waves, experts warn

Harris links climate action to American values as part of presidential push

As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

Op-ed: People need shelter from climate change — their health hangs in the balance

Youth climate case petition heads to Supreme Court