"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin scrapped a planned vote on a prominent Department of Energy nominee Wednesday morning. The West Virginia Democrat pulled Jeff Marootian, nominee to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, from a markup agenda because of the agency’s proposed rules on gas stoves."
"Wildfires sweeping across western Canada that have driven thousands of people from their homes are also striking the heart of Canadian oil and gas country, forcing companies to curb production."
"There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday."
"The Biden administration is moving to close a loophole that had exempted hundreds of inactive coal ash landfills from rules designed to prevent heavy metals like mercury and arsenic from seeping into groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday."
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"Residents of communities with bigger Black and Hispanic populations are more likely to be exposed to harmful levels of “forever chemicals” in their water supplies, a new study has found."
"U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the emergency use of a bird flu vaccine to protect the California condor, a critically endangered and magnificent animal that has already bounced back once from the brink of extinction."
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[2] https://www.eenews.net/articles/manchin-blocks-doe-nominee-over-gas-stoves/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/canada-s-wildfires-have-been-disrupting-lives-now-oil-and-gas-take-hit
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/canada-wildfires-fracking-oil-gas.html
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[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/business/burning-man-geothermal-plant-nevada.html
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[15] https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4006987-communities-of-color-disproportionately-exposed-to-forever-chemicals-in-drinking-water-study/
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