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This photo taken May 5, 2014 shows the stacks of the Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pa. Three years ago, the operators of one of the nation’s dirtiest coal-fired power plants warned of “immediate and devastating” consequences from the Obama administration’s push to clean up pollution from coal. Faced with cutting sulfur dioxide pollution blowing into downwind states by 80 percent in less than a year, lawyers for EME Homer City Generation L.P. sued the Environmental Protection Agency to block the rule, saying it would cause a painful spike in electricity bills and grave harm to power producers like itself.
Energy and Environment

Would a phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons avoid half a degree of global warming?

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The U.S. is building few traditional large nuclear plants like this one and is instead focusing on developing smaller reactors.
Energy

Nuclear energy is the key to our energy transition

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Meeting Biden’s climate pledge would require ‘dramatic’ changes to fossil fuel-based economy
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Meeting Biden’s climate pledge would require ‘dramatic’ changes to fossil fuel-based economy

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FILE - This Nov. 16, 2015 photo shows an overview of a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss. Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Co. on how much customers should pay for a troubled $7.5 billion power plant once touted as the future of coal. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. is agreeing to lower the price tag on its Kemper County power plant by $85 million, its second round of concessions in two weeks. Shareholders have already lost $6 billion.
Energy and Environment

Biden administration looking to capture carbon from gas and manufacturing

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In this, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, Kourtney Lesperance, 23, of Miami, who just finished her undergraduate studies at University of Colorado Boulder, harvests kale on an organic farm in Opa-locka, Fla. A Florida bill mandating that private companies verify each new hire's eligibility to work in the U.S. is worrying farmers in the agriculture-rich state. The growers complain they are struggling to find farm workers as the unemployment rate reaches record lows.
Op-Eds

Farmers are natural climate solution champions

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Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)
Energy and Environment

Environmentalists say Biden’s climate finance plan leaves the door open for fossil fuels

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Coal workers union doesn’t always represent coal worker values
Columnists

Coal workers union doesn’t always represent coal worker values

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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry listens as President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington.
Op-Eds

The futility of Biden’s climate summit

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White House Report Card: ‘Blame America First’ in full view
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White House Report Card: ‘Blame America First’ in full view

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A baby spending time in his father's office.
Beltway Confidential

Permanent remote work could be a ticket to lower carbon emissions

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