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It may be more heartbreaking than hearing your Thanksgiving dinner is wasteful or your Halloween chocolate is problematic. But yes: Those Valentine’s roses do have an environmental cost. The majority of cut flowers this time of year are flown in from Colombia and Ecuador on refrigerated airplanes, burning through fossil fuels. Commercial flower farming has … Read more
Federal electricity regulators on Tuesday approved a proposal from the nation’s largest electric grid operator that could effectively give new natural gas power plants priority in connecting to the grid over renewable energy sources like solar and wind. The decision, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, comes as the United States faces the prospect of … Read more
Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil and gas company, said on Wednesday that it would lay off as much as 20 percent of its work force, or up to around 9,000 people, as part of a cost-cutting effort. While the cuts are deeper than at other oil companies, they are in keeping with a broad trend … Read more
Environmental groups that fought bruising courtroom battles with the first Trump administration are steeling themselves for another round amid a barrage of executive orders, firings and funding cuts. In interviews with more than a half-dozen of the most prominent groups, executives said that some — but not all — legal challenges could take time to … Read more
President Trump has nominated Kathleen Sgamma, a professional advocate for the oil and gas industry, to run the Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the Interior Department that oversees grazing, logging, drilling and wildlife conservation on 245 million acres of public land. The nomination was received by the Senate on Tuesday and referred to … Read more
The warnings, on thousands of products sold in California, are stark. “Use of the following products,” one label says, “will expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.” Now, new research shows the warnings may be working. A study published Wednesday in the journal … Read more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency can halt payments to New York City for a program designed to shelter migrants, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday. But the judge, John J. McConnell Jr. of U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, made clear that his order has no bearing on the legality of the Trump administration’s broader … Read more