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While some countries struggle to uphold human rights, Ecuador has forged ahead and ruled wild animals possess distinct legal rights, including the right to exist.

President Joe Biden will soon authorize the Defense Product Act to help American families get over rising oil prices and boost the production of large-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and the energy sector.

Here are 25 bills dealing with renewable energy, electric cars and the power grid.

At a time when some countries show total disregard for human rights, Ecuador has gone a step further by expanding the legal rights to cover wild animals, making the South American first in the world to introduce such a concept. The decision was taken by the country’s highest court when it was hearing a case for Estrellita, a woolly monkey taken from the wild when she was one-month-old and kept as a pet. She later died a month after it was moved to the zoo, reports Inside Climate News.

Growing water scarcity throughout the U.S. is prompting creative and expensive solutions from a range of states, including a rise in “cash for...

The highest court in Ecuador has ruled in favor of wild animals. A case for Estrellita, a woolly monkey taken from the wild and kept as a pet, is the first case to apply the country’s “rights of nature” law to animals.

Los Angeles hopes to become a green hydrogen hub.

For those with an adventurous streak, a century-old cabin that overlooks the Continental Divide in Canada might have been the perfect retreat. But as Gizmodo reports, the famed...

President Joe Biden’s pick for the Fed’s top bank cop pulled out of the running, but the push for greater climate considerations in financial regulations isn’t losing steam.

Weaknesses of the Biden administration’s energy policies became one of the decisive factors that prompted Russian President Vladimir ...