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Republican states ask Supreme Court to take carbon-restricting powers from EPA

Republican states ask Supreme Court to take carbon-restricting powers from EPA

by Isabel Miller | Feb 28, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday considered an Obama administration regulation to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Coal companies and several Republican states, led by West Virginia, want to limit the Clean Power Plan from 2015 that never...
Federal bill adds $5 million a year to UW-Madison bioenergy research center

Federal bill adds $5 million a year to UW-Madison bioenergy research center

by Courtney Degen | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a federally funded research center led by UW-Madison, would receive an additional $5 million in funding each year through 2026 from legislation that passed the House earlier this month but still faces...
China Provided Abundant Snow for the Winter Olympics, but at What Cost to the Environment?

China Provided Abundant Snow for the Winter Olympics, but at What Cost to the Environment?

by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured

The Beijing 2022 Olympics wrap up this weekend, but construction and artificial snow use in the alpine and sliding sports competitions in Zhangjiakou and Yanqing could create long-term changes to the areas’ ecosystems. Before the world’s top winter athletes took to...
New York to receive $70M in federal grants to plug abandoned oil, gas wells

New York to receive $70M in federal grants to plug abandoned oil, gas wells

by Hannah Schoenbaum and Isabel Miller | Feb 10, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — New York is slated to receive nearly $70 million to plug thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the state as the Biden administration begins distributing funds from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. The infrastructure...
Big Oil climate pledges fall short of global warming reduction goals, experts say

Big Oil climate pledges fall short of global warming reduction goals, experts say

by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 9, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Climate change experts and advocates told a House committee Tuesday that sustainability pledges made by Big Oil companies mask the fact that their continued oil production means climate goals laid out in the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved....
Activists urge the International Energy Agency to remove paywalls around its data

Activists urge the International Energy Agency to remove paywalls around its data

by Andrew Marquardt and Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Feb 8, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month. The IEA, which publishes a series...
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