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E.P.A. proposes first limits on climate pollution from existing power plants

It’s the last in a string of major regulations proposed by the Biden administration to sharply cut the greenhouse gases produced by the United States.

Politics

E.P.A. lays out rules to turbocharge sales of electric cars and trucks

The Biden administration is proposing rules to ensure that two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the U.S. by 2032 are all-electric.

Solutions

Biden administration to curb toxic pollutants from chemical plants

The rule would chiefly affect plants along the Gulf Coast, the Ohio River Valley and in West Virginia.

Causes

E.P.A. to tighten limits on mercury and other pollutants from power plants

A new rule would reduce mercury, arsenic, nickel and lead emissions, which the Biden administration said would protect public health.

Politics

E.P.A. tells dozens of states to clean up their smokestacks

The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east.

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Depleted under Trump, a ‘traumatized’ E.P.A. struggles with its mission

Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.

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EPA tightens rules on pollution from vans, buses and trucks

For the first time in decades, the agency has restricted nitrogen dioxide emissions from heavy vehicles.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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E.P.A. proposes first limits on climate pollution from existing power plants

E.P.A. lays out rules to turbocharge sales of electric cars and trucks

Biden administration to curb toxic pollutants from chemical plants

E.P.A. to tighten limits on mercury and other pollutants from power plants

E.P.A. tells dozens of states to clean up their smokestacks

Depleted under Trump, a ‘traumatized’ E.P.A. struggles with its mission

EPA tightens rules on pollution from vans, buses and trucks

Opinion: How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant

Two ways of knowing: How merging science and Indigenous wisdom fuels new discoveries

Is ‘imagination activism’ the antidote to climate doom we’ve been looking for?

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

Plans to dispose of mining waste in Norway’s Arctic Ocean worries Sámi fishers, herders

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