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'Time to roll up our sleeves': Congress' long to-do list

Congress has just a few weeks to address a host of priorities with implications for energy, environmental and climate issues.
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Editorial: Remember the Ohio train derailment? The U.S. is still waiting for fixes.

No community in America deserves to be the next East Palestine. To protect them, the Senate should pass the bipartisan Railway Safety Act.
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In Denver, oil trains hit a fork in the road to Colorado's transportation future

COAL CREEK, Colo. — As trains heading east from the Moffat Tunnel take one last sharp turn along a ridge near Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder County, the scenery changes abruptly. After traveling hundreds of miles east through narrow river gorges and rugged alpine forests, the Union Pacific’s Central Corridor through Colorado emerges at […]
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Colorado lawmakers seek suspension of Utah oil train project

Sen. Bennet and Rep. Neguse wrote a letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack urging him to formally suspend a Utah rail project.
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Norfolk Southern has thrown roughly $100 million into politics since 1990

If you’re wondering how the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, happened, here’s one clue.
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Trump administration accelerates Alabama coal expansion mostly for foreign steel markets

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Louisiana expands LNG exports as Trump fast-tracks new terminal permits

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UK residents take government’s climate strategy to European human rights court

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How fragile power grids and extreme weather combined to cause Europe’s biggest blackout in decades

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As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

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Nuclear revival plan faces obstacles at Tennessee Valley Authority

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Mark Carney’s rise places Trump between two quiet climate champions

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Energy Star program faces shutdown as EPA reorganizes under Trump administration