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Pa. Health Department to reveal results of child health studies in gas lands

On Tuesday evening, the Pennsylvania Department of Health plans to reveal the results of several highly-anticipated health studies that probe a possible link between oil and gas development and children’s cancer, asthma and poor birth outcomes in southwestern Pennsylvania.

ConocoPhillips gas leak in Alaskan North Slope village drives some residents from their homes

ConocoPhillips gas leak in Alaskan North Slope village drives some residents from their homes

For nearly a week, natural gas has been leaking from a ConocoPhillips facility outside a village in the Alaskan arctic, spreading fear and anxiety in the community and prompting the company to evacuate non-essential personnel. Some residents have fled the area.

Native Americans ‘Left out in the cold' under Trump press Biden for action
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Native Americans ‘Left out in the cold' under Trump press Biden for action

After showing political clout in the 2020 election, tribal communities are hoping for more attention and money to address their long-running problems with poverty, health care and other issues.
Ryan Zinke’s official portrait a final slap in the face to Native American tribes
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Ryan Zinke’s official portrait a final slap in the face to Native American tribes

The painting features the former interior secretary riding a horse through Bears Ears National Monument shortly before he and Trump trashed the protected site.

The last big environmental fight of the Trump era is over drilling in Alaska's Arctic

The last big environmental fight of the Trump era is over drilling in Alaska's Arctic

Conservationists and Trump officials have embarked on competing campaigns to either support or stop oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling
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Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling

Prime Minister Mishustin wants to tap into vast oil and gas resources on the Arctic shelf and commissions his cabinet ministers to make a plan for big drilling.
Forests growing over shale bedrock help fight climate change
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Forests growing over shale bedrock help fight climate change

A swath of forests in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and West Virginia store much more harmful carbon than surrounding forests and should be conserved in the name of climate change, a new study says.

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