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"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues Wednesday." "With a huge majority and no expected competition, he is likely to cruise to the speakership."
"A study looking at babies hospitalized in New Orleans found that babies born to mothers from neighborhoods in south-east Louisiana with high levels of industrial pollution were four times more likely to suffer from severe congenital heart defects."
"Across wide stretches of the sun-bleached Sonoran desert in Arizona, thousands of retired aircraft sit nose-to-tail in graveyards of metal known as boneyards. Many of their engines haven’t been fired up for years. But America’s soaring demand for electricity to power data centers is bringing them back to life."
"Halfway through a 20-year push to get Vermont’s waterways in line with tougher EPA standards, some lawmakers worry the project’s strategies aren’t as cost-effective as they could be — especially as a state-mandated audit was never done."
"Rich countries are falling well short of the $305 billion needed each year to help developing nations adapt to climate change, even as extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, a UN report said on Wednesday."
"Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump."
"The agency says it will suspend efforts, in the works for more than 20 years, to develop measures that would allow the agency to enforce bedrock clean air laws at factory farms."
"Pregnant women in Arizona’s colonias live near pesticide-sprayed fields and far from care. State maternal health plans don’t consider pollution."
"As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor’s race."
"Every winter, India’s capital is blanketed with toxic smog. Breathing it in is like smoking roughly a dozen cigarettes a day. A major culprit: its notorious traffic."
"Economist William Nordhaus said putting a price on pollution was the best way to reduce climate change. Then came the fossil fuel lobby and the anti-tax movement."
"From torn nets to decimated local stocks, species drifting in on warmer waters are causing headaches for European fishermen."
"The state issued a permit that would allow companies to reclassify oil and gas wells and sell toxic wastewater as a separate product."
"New reports say more robust and accurate accounting of livestock-based emissions should underpin the all-out effort needed to slow global warming."
"Aghorn pleaded guilty and paid a $1 million fine after a worker and his wife were killed by toxic hydrogen sulfide in 2019. Regulators are still finding violations at its facilities."
