"The British oil giant BP worked through the weekend to control a damaged oil well on Alaska’s remote North Slope that had started spewing natural gas vapors on Friday morning, the company and Alaska officials said."
"Documents show the administration pushed other G-7 countries to embrace larger roles for nuclear power and fossil fuels. They refused."
"President Donald Trump’s abrupt turnaround on U.S. climate policy is fueling tension with several of America’s closest allies, which are resisting the administration’s demands that they support a bigger role for nuclear power and fossil fuels in the world’s energy supply.
"Over the past year, five multinational energy companies have sold off nearly $25 billion worth of their Canadian assets to domestic companies."
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"Will an oil pipeline proposed for tribal lands destroy the Ramapough Lenape Nation along the New Jersey-New York border? Or will it be the catalyst that once again unites the tribe?"
"A giant aquifer below an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility is as free of radioactive contamination and other pollutants as it has been in more than six decades of monitoring but the water level of the aquifer is at its lowest ever recorded, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released this week."
"Canada's food regulator has found traces of a controversial pesticide in nearly one-third of food products — and residue levels above the acceptable limits in about four per cent of grain products."
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is searching for Obama-era regulations to repeal."
"EPA administrator declared an end to the government’s ‘war’ on coal in a speech to miners – an agenda that has been bitterly opposed by agency staff".
"One reason President Trump gave for signing his order to dismantle climate policies was 'to cancel job-killing regulations.' But in places like coal country, environmental regulations are creating jobs, too."
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