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"The Biden administration is planning to restore wetlands protections lost under a Trump-era rule that promotes development, the EPA announced Wednesday."
"The firm behind the Keystone XL pipeline officially scrapped the project on Wednesday, months after President Biden revoked a cross-border permit for the controversial pipeline and more than a decade after political wrangling over its fate began."
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"Despite experts who say Texas’ power grid remains vulnerable, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott declared Tuesday that new reforms “fix all of the flaws” that caused February’s deadly winter blackout that left more than 4 million people without power in subfreezing weather."
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[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fairy-creek-bc-defers-old-growth-logging-1.6059914
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-rewrite-trump-era-waters-rule-boosted-builders
[4] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/biden-administration-to-redefine-waters-of-the-united-states
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/keystone-xl-pipeline-developer-pulls-plug-controversial-project
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/09/keystone-pipeline-dead/
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/71st-annual-gulf-coast-geoscience-convention
[8] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ijnr-ocean-and-climate-workshop-series-northeastern-us
[9] https://www.sej.org/job-opening-climate-content-writer-terrado
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-sea-lions-face-unprecedented-rate-cancer
[11] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/california-sea-lions-face-unprecedented-rate-cancer-2021-06-08/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/texas-governor-says-power-grid-fixed-experts-cite-problems
[13] https://apnews.com/article/texas-business-government-and-politics-33520b14d1823108a3c654d611701987
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/will-us-ban-pfas-food-packaging
[15] https://civileats.com/2021/06/03/will-the-u-s-ban-pfas-in-food-packaging/
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/million-years-data-confirms-monsoons-are-likely-get-worse
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