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Climate News
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The fight to slow human-caused climate change has taken another major setback.
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The EPA has reversed its position on whether or not it can regulate greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating influential rules that were pushing the auto industry toward cleaner vehicles.
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On a trip through North East Washington in the 1970s, couple Lynn and Becky Miner fell in love with the stunning nature around them. -
Skiers would typically use waxes with PFAS to lubricate their skis to go downhill faster. -
Starting Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer regulate pollutants from fossil fuels, such as methane and carbon dioxide, under the Clean Air Act.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change. -
People in poor countries often get little or no warning about floods, storms and other deadly weather. Local efforts are changing that, and saving lives. -
A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected. -
Several athletes are objecting to the International Olympic Committee over sponsorship of the Games by major oil companies. They say fossil fuel use threatens winter conditions needed for snow sports.
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Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades. -
Chile is freezing its future to protect its plants.
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We join a group of mudlarkers to see what's hiding by a creek in Philadelphia, as contributors ask what mudlarking, scavenging the banks of rivers or creeks for treasures, can uncover.
