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For years, environmental activists have argued industrial development along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans has put an unfair pollution burden on Black residents — and, in

For years, environmental activists have argued industrial development along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans has put an unfair pollution burden on Black residents — and, in

The Dubai agreement's reference to reducing fossil fuels will likely be used in cases against governments.

Under the climate law Congress passed last week, Interior's management of its leasing program over the next decade "is sort of a done deal," one observer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority said in a ruling issued today. 

The Interior Department may soon be without a five-year plan for offshore oil and gas lease development for the first time in decades, opening the door to

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean are protected again.

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