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While some important uses for natural gas are falling, without the need to power or heat large office spaces and some non-essential manufacturing facilities, demand has picked up in other places, such as in feedstock for plastics used to make key health equipment.
Energy and Environment

House scraps Trump methane deregulatory move, clearing way for Biden to issue strict controls

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Rules would require reductions of methane from new wells and began assembling rules for existing wells. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Energy

Overturning the methane rule means higher energy costs in return for no benefits

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The GOP letter was sent to EPA chief Scott Pruitt on the last day to submit public comment on the Trump administration's proposal to scale back the rule, which President Trump ordered under one of his first executive orders as commander in chief. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Energy and Environment

Biden EPA to expand scope of waters covered by federal protections

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In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. The EPA says it has recovered 517 containers of “unidentified, potentially hazardous material” from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. But the agency has not provided details about which Superfund sites the material came from, why the contaminants at issue have not been identified and whether there’s a threat to human health.
Energy and Environment

EPA moves to scrap Trump rule posing hurdles to tougher air pollution rules

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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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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warns drivers against ‘hoarding’ gasoline after pipeline shutdown
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warns drivers against ‘hoarding’ gasoline after pipeline shutdown

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Mark Cooper, long-time consumer advocate and a clean vehicle policy expert, said the low price of oil is reducing the number of electric cars the public is willing to buy, but that the interest in the vehicles has skyrocketed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Beltway Confidential

A gas vehicle ban would leave us stuck in the slow lane

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, June 3, 2019.
Energy and Environment

Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler joining Heritage Foundation

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The Obama administration joined nearly 200 countries in signing onto a global deal in Kigali, Rwanda, this month to phase out the use of chemical coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, used in air conditioners and for refrigeration (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)
Energy and Environment

EPA moves to curb potent greenhouse gas coolants in first Biden climate regulation

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Democratic senator pushes ban on sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035
Energy and Environment

Democratic senator pushes ban on sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035

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