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Next week, not far from where thousands of Indigenous and environmental activists gathered in North Dakota nine years ago in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, one of the most consequential trials to emerge from that conflict is set to begin. The case,…

On the same day the Trump administration announced it was freezing federal funds dedicated to electric vehicle projects, the largest electric utility in Illinois announced a $100 million rebate program to fund EV infrastructure projects in northern Illinois.…

After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday. The offering by the…

Some employees who recently lost their jobs at the Chicago office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were told Wednesday they can return to work. A uniform email sent to some probationary employees gave no reason why their jobs were reinstated but did…

Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States. This includes large plants from global battery giants such as Panasonic, Samsung and SK On, and automakers such as Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Stellantis and Toyota.…

It took nearly a month to contain the wildfires that burned over 40,000 acres around Los Angeles in January, but doctors warn that serious health implications from the blazes are just starting to unfold and will likely persist much longer. While all wildfires…

Read an update on this story here. In her short time at the Environmental Protection Agency, Nyla McCranie helped a central Ohio woman who complained that someone was burning lithium batteries near her rural home, creating an air pollution hazard. A scientist…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has marked for fast-track review more than 600 permit applications for projects under President Donald Trump’s “Declaring a National Energy Emergency” executive order that would disturb critical wetlands and waterways,…

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted conditional authorization for a contested project to export liquified natural gas in southwest Louisiana, potentially the first in a string of such moves in the second Trump administration.  At the beginning of last…

As oil and gas production in the U.S. continues to reach record highs, the margin of Westerners who support public land conservation over increased oil and gas development also continues to climb.  In a new “Conservation in the West Poll” released today…