Environment – Page 18 – The USA Potato

Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

Molly Taft / 10/04/2025

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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Solar Has Been the World’s Fastest Growing Power Source for 20 Years Running

Jillian Ambrose / 09/04/2025

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40 percent of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered […]

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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Is a Pit Bull for the Fossil Fuel Industry

Jimmy Tobias and Chris D’Angelo / 08/04/2025

This story was originally published by Public Domain, a Substack publication to which you can subscribe here. When rancher Ammon Bundy and his armed posse stormed into Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016 in a failed attempt to seize public land for themselves, Kathleen Sgamma, then the vice president of the Western Energy Alliance, issued a brief […]

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