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Trump's oil promises have bigger problems than Biden's new offshore drilling ban
President Joe Biden's move to protect offshore areas is largely symbolic, but the economic factors that may limit oil output gains are very real.
Biden to block new offshore drilling along most US coastline
The move may complicate Republican efforts to speed lease sales for oil and gas exploration in federal waters.
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At EPA, Trump’s second term is already having consequences
Any significant exodus of staff, either through retirement, resignation or termination, could devastate key EPA functions.
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Puerto Rico hit by near-total blackout
Power had been restored for about 336,000 of Puerto Rico's 1.5 million customers as of 6:00 p.m., but LUMA Energy said the full restoration process could take one to two days.
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Jimmy Carter’s conservation legacy
The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service.
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Undeterred: Energy firms pursue Mozambique projects despite massacre report
Exxon Mobil and others remain engaged in the African nation, amid claims that oil and gas projects stir unrest.
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Romney’s climate legacy: A champion with few results
Climate-minded Republicans still give credit to the retiring senator for speaking up on the matter.
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From Nuremberg to now: How a war crimes trial in Sweden is changing legal history
Prosecutors are using “universal jurisdiction” to hold companies to account for their operations overseas.
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What has Biden wrought?
He had just a single term to try to transform the nation's approach to energy, climate change, technology and jobs. What does he leave behind?
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Trump and California draw battle lines around electric cars
The Biden administration’s approval of California’s electric vehicle mandate sets up a protracted fight.
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Biden strengthens US climate goal before Trump takes office
The move will almost certainly be reversed by the incoming president.
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Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car
His agencies are leveraging California's vast market power to prod the auto industry to ramp up production of battery-powered vehicles — regardless of what Trump wants.
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Biden administration gas export report could upset Trump energy policy
The Energy Department assessments homes in on the economic risks to warn that exporting more gas could raise domestic energy costs.
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‘Everyone’s demoralized.’ Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting
Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.
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NOAA: 2024 temperatures set to break last year's global record
The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administration's efforts to combat climate change.
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Climate summit ends with a long-fought deal — and a lot of anger
Developing nations got a promise of at least $300 billion a year in climate finance from rich countries such as the U.S. and the EU’s members. They wanted far more.
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What the ‘show me the money’ climate summit tells us about the new Trump era
Big-money pledges will be even harder to trust. Fossil fuel producers have more leverage. China is ascendant.
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Climate summit approves divisive $300B deal
The pledged financing from the U.S., EU and other wealthy governments includes hopes for private money — and a Trump-sized asterisk.
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The global climate race is all but over — and China is winning
Dominance of clean energy technology has allowed China to cement its influence with developing nations, overwhelming more meager efforts by the U.S. and Europe.
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Climate proposal would see rich countries pay $250B a year
The draft agreement comes with many uncertainties about which nations will provide how much financing to poorer countries, especially with a new Trump era looming in the U.S.
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US climate officials race to ink a deal that Trump could spurn
Career negotiators at the climate talks face working for a president who says global warming is a hoax, being reassigned or finding new jobs.
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Last year, the world pledged to move away from fossil fuels. This year, not so much.
Even getting countries to restate the 2023 deal has been a struggle at COP29.
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Coalition to boost climate efforts moves ahead without US
Governments including the European Union, Canada and Mexico said they will set "ambitious" new targets for cutting their greenhouse gas pollution by 2035.
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The Trump team's plan to resuscitate a dead oil project
The company behind the project cancelled it and the steel that was in ground has been removed, but it's on the president-elect's energy to-do list.
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Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks
The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked on the campaign trail.
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Why Biden’s $7.5B electric vehicle charger push is probably safe from Trump
The grant programs ridiculed by Trump "aren’t going anywhere," one expert said.
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Republican lawmakers channel Trump at climate summit
Their message about expanding U.S. gas production came at a global meeting that's focused on moving the world away from fossil fuels.
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Trump’s wildcard Cabinet choices leave oil industry scratching its head
Some surprise nominees have the sector and lawmakers wondering if the president-elect will seek to install an unexpected person to one of the top energy roles.
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