Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine
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A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric vehicles, semiconductors, satellites, magnets,
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2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change.
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The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the
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How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to
Read MoreWhen Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park, she is often greeted
Read MoreThe Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on
Read MoreIllinois families are going electric — for free
Jean Gay-Robinson said she “cried tears of joy” when utility ComEd switched all the polluting gas-fired equipment in her Chicago home
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The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
In recent months, the Trump administration has opened a deregulatory floodgate in the name of building more data centers. Among
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The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune
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