The Trump administration is making moves to loosen the environmental rules for nuclear energy. Earlier this month, the Energy Department published an exclusion to environmental reviews for the reactors under its jurisdiction. And it could be loosening other rules, including radiation limits. But the biggest changes could be still to come from the relatively low-profile...
Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops — signs of a warming world.
A federal judge this week determined that a Texas state law that seeks to prevent state funds from being invested with financial firms that boycott fossil fuel companies is unconstitutional. Texas federal Judge Alan Albright, an appointee of President Trump, found that state law S.B. 13 was a violation of the First and 14th amendments....
New York state lawmakers have proposed a bill to pause the construction of new data centers for three years to study the environmental and economic impact of AI technology.
The Trump administration will reapprove the controversial herbicide dicamba for use on cotton and soybeans with some restrictions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the decision to reapprove the chemical for two years in a statement late Friday afternoon. Dicamba has been sprayed on crops for decades. The move comes as the Trump administration faces competing pressure...
Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused the National Park Service on Thursday of “sanitizing history” amid reported changes at a Mississippi house museum commemorating civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Evers, the Magnolia State’s first NAACP field secretary, was assassinated at the age of 37...
Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study. The paper, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that from 2006 to 2020, long-term exposure to tiny particulates from wildfire smoke contributed to an average of 24,100 deaths...
The Trump administration is rescinding a total of $1.5 billion in health and transportation funds from multiple blue states, a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) confirmed Thursday. The OMB directed the Transportation Department to rescind $943 million from Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota, and it directed the Centers for...
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to halt a proposed rollback of vehicle mileage standards, warning that weakening the standards could have detrimental effects on fuel efficiency and Americans’ wallets and worsen climate change. The lawmakers argued in a Feb. 4 letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that the rollbacks would...
