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The Inflation Reduction Act promises thousands of new oil leases. Drillers might not want them.
The bigger question about Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel provisions is if they’ll succeed on the senator’s own terms.
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![Photo of mountaintop removal mine site with photo of flooded street in Kentucky layered on top]()
![Photo of mountaintop removal mine site with photo of flooded street in Kentucky layered on top]()
How coal mining increased East Kentucky’s flood risk
Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.
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In exchange for climate legislation, Joe Manchin was promised a pipeline. Will he get it?
The agreement might not solve the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s biggest problem: compliance with environmental law.
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![Small houses connected by a glowing yellow line in the shape of a lightning bolt with lights flickering on in the windows]()
![Small houses connected by a glowing yellow line in the shape of a lightning bolt with lights flickering on in the windows]()
The plan to turn blighted houses into a new source of green power for the grid
A California nonprofit is retrofitting homes to make a "virtual power plant" — and fighting gentrification at the same time.
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Is the Biden administration fast-tracking a ‘carbon disaster’ in Alaska?
Documents obtained by Grist show that Congressional Democrats' requests for more time to review ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project have been met with silence.
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Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion for climate and energy
The Democrats’ deal with Manchin is a climate landmark that would also boost fossil fuels.
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Pennsylvania just lost a key tool to address its abandoned oil well problem
"It’s a green light for the conventional oil and gas industry to continue to do what they’ve done, which is abandon these wells whenever they feel like it."
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![Illustration: A hydrogen storage facility, semi-truck with hydrogen fuel pump, truck transporting hydrogen, and electric towers on top of silhouettes of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. To the right of the states are offshore wind turbines and a cargo ship transporting tanks of hydrogen.]()
![Illustration: A hydrogen storage facility, semi-truck with hydrogen fuel pump, truck transporting hydrogen, and electric towers on top of silhouettes of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. To the right of the states are offshore wind turbines and a cargo ship transporting tanks of hydrogen.]()
The Northeast is poised to become a ‘hydrogen hub’
But nobody knows quite what that means yet.
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![a row of Bitcoin mining computer rigs extends into the distance]()
![a row of Bitcoin mining computer rigs extends into the distance]()
Cryptomining uses a ‘disturbing’ amount of energy, lawmakers find
Bitcoin, we have a problem.
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A key US energy efficiency program has a major flaw — and Pennsylvania is trying to fix it
Homes are rejected for efficiency upgrades because they need repairs. Many owners can't afford them.
