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November 26, 2021 at 2:18 pm

Interior Department Report on Drilling Is Mostly Silent on Climate Change

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that drilling on public land and in federal waters is responsible for almost one-quarter of the greenhouse gases generated by...

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November 15, 2021 at 4:55 pm

Biden to bar new drilling around a major Native American cultural site

President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration was moving to block new federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon...

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November 6, 2021 at 11:51 am

Infrastructure bill makes first major U.S. investment in climate resilience

The $47 billion in the bill designated for “climate resilience” is intended to help communities prepare for the new age of extreme fires, floods, storms...

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October 31, 2021 at 3:41 pm

At Climate Talks, Biden Will Try to Sell American Leadership to Skeptics VIEW

GLASGOW, Scotland — U.S. President Joe Biden will walk into a riverside event space Monday to try to convince a gathering of world leaders that...

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FILE â€” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, ahead of an expected vote in the Senate on the debt limit. The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the presidentâ€™s plan to battle climate change. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times) XNYT151 XNYT151

October 16, 2021 at 7:39 pm

Democrats weigh carbon tax after Manchin rejects key climate provision

Some House and Senate Democrats, smarting from a move by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to kill a major element of President Joe Biden’s climate plan,...

October 15, 2021 at 6:25 pm

Key part of Biden’s climate agenda likely to be cut because of Manchin opposition

Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia, is said to have told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program...

October 13, 2021 at 1:54 pm

Biden Administration Plans Wind Farms Along Nearly the Entire U.S. Coastline

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the...

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September 20, 2021 at 3:25 pm

In a first, Biden administration will draft rules on workplace heat dangers

The Biden administration is opening an effort across federal agencies to address the health effects from heat, including the first-ever labor standard aimed at protecting...

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September 20, 2021 at 11:41 am

In a first, Biden administration will draft rules on workplace heat dangers

The administration is opening an effort across federal agencies to address health effects from heat, including the first-ever heat-specific workplace standard. It comes after a...

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FILE – Sen, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) takes a phone call at the Capitol in Washington on July 13, 2021. Manchin represents a state that is second in coal and seventh in natural gas production, and personally profits from stock he owns in his family’s coal brokerage. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times)

September 19, 2021 at 1:37 pm

This powerful Democrat linked to fossil fuels will craft the U.S. climate plan

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned $500,000 last year from coal production, is...