"Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young played an outsize role in shaping many natural resources policies during his nearly half a century as Alaska’s lone House representative, leaving a mark on issues like oil and natural gas, fisheries and endangered species."
"Half a century after the Clean Water Act became law, the United States is still far from the goal of having all of its waters clean enough that people can fish and swim in them."
"EPA is leading the Biden administration’s latest initiative to stop the spread of Covid-19. The agency wrote new ventilation and air quality guidelines for schools, colleges and other building owners and operators released by the White House yesterday."
"Climate scientists and fossil fuel executives use the same terms when they talk about an energy transition. But they mean starkly different things."
"Qatar said it agreed to work on supplying Germany with liquefied natural gas as Europe’s biggest economy seeks to reduce its dependence on Russian energy."
"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy now being pursued by major economies to end fossil fuel imports from Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine could kill hopes of keeping global warming below dangerous levels."
"Federal workers at the Environmental Protection Agency are fighting to keep a key laboratory in Houston, warning that following through on a Trump-era plan to relocate the facility to rural Oklahoma would force out dedicated staff and harm heavily polluted industrial communities along the Gulf Coast."
"Wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas on Monday, and a storm system moving through could bring much-needed rain but also strong winds, forecasters said."
"The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists."
"The Senate will begin confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday, just weeks after the Supreme Court took up the biggest climate change case in a decade."
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