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Climate

Hurricane Erick Intensified Really, Really Quickly
Climate

AM Briefing: Hurricane Erick’s Rapid Intensification

On storm damage, the Strait of Hormuz, and Volkswagen’s robotaxi

Climate

AM Briefing: NAACP, SELC Threaten to Sue Musk’s xAI

On xAI, residential solar, and domestic lithium

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Politics

AM Briefing: Senate Finance Puts Its Spin on IRA Tax Credit Cuts

On the Senate Finance Committee’s budget proposal, the NRC, and fossil-fuel financing

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Climate

The One Word Trump Is Using to Erase Greenhouse Gas Rules

The Environmental Protection Agency just unveiled its argument against regulating greenhouse emissions from power plants.

Donald Trump with a smokestack head.
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In federal policymaking, the weight of the law can rest on a single word. When it comes to reducing planet-warming emissions from the power sector, that word is “significantly.” The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate any stationary source of emissions that “causes, or contributes significantly to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”

The EPA has considered power plants a significant source of dangerous greenhouse gases since 2015. But today, Trump’s EPA said, actually, never mind.

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Climate

AM Briefing: EPA Reportedly to Roll Back Power Plant Emission Regulations Today

On power plant emissions, Fervo, and a UK nuclear plant

EPA Will Reportedly Roll Back Power Plant Emission Regulations Today
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Current conditions: A week into Atlantic hurricane season, development in the basin looks “unfavorable through JuneCanadian wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average, at over 3.1 million hectares so farRescue efforts resumed Wednesday in the search for a school bus swept away by flash floods in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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1. EPA to weaken Biden-era power plant pollution regulations today

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