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Nigeria's solar boom faces cost and policy barriers
Nigeria's rising solar imports signal a search for alternatives to unreliable grid power and high fuel costs.
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Opinion: Why Trump’s $2 billion buyoff to cancel offshore wind farms is a bad deal for American taxpayers and the US energy supply
Communities have been laying the groundwork for offshore energy projects for years and counting on the jobs and energy supply.
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Plugging away at the millions of derelict oil and gas wells in the US
The Well Done Foundation is remediating abandoned and orphaned fossil fuel wells that pollute water, soils, and the atmosphere. But plugging a borehole can be even harder than drilling it.
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Trump let polluters sidestep Clean Air Act rules with just an email
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act.
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Bolivia’s fuel shortages drive a surge in electric cars
A small but growing number of Bolivians are trading their fossil fuel-powered vehicles for electric ones.
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As coal rebounds, more toxic mercury is in the air
Coal-burning power plants released more mercury last year, according to an analysis by The Times. It reverses a downward trend of emissions of a metal that interferes with brain development.
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Farm country critics balk at carbon capture projects, citing health risks of "grand experiment"
Carbon capture and sequestration, as the process is called, has been widely touted as a solution to the climate crisis, reducing CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities that contribute to increasingly erratic and dangerous weather patterns.
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