A controversial oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drew one big bid Friday from an independent Anchorage-based natural gas producer, along with a smattering of other bids from a state economic development agency. HEX Energy LLC, which produces natural gas in Cook Inlet but has never operated on the North Slope, bid $1.7 million for a single lease bordering state…
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Thousands of people in Albania took to the streets on Tuesday night for the fourth consecutive day, in protest of a $4 billion luxury resort project on Albania’s largest island spearheaded by Jared Kushner. Protests near the site began on Saturday, May 30, after developers erected barbed-wire fences blocking off public access to the local beach and coast. Demonstrators attempted to force a…
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The evidence for rapid human-caused climate change keeps piling up, yet the world continues to flood the atmosphere with greenhouse gases amid a political backlash against the struggle for a future free of fossil fuels. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, which means humans are continuing to make the climate crisis worse. Global average temperatures are expected to stay at record levels for…
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Amid ongoing outcry over a massive, 40,000-acre data center campus being planned in northern Utah, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams announced that he’s calling for the project to be scaled back dramatically. “I’ve sent a letter directly to Kevin O’Leary calling for a 75% reduction in the proposed data center project area, from 40,000 acres to approximately 10,000 acres,” Adams said in a…
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The March 30 announcement arrived with the bluntness that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s environmental retreat: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has served as the nation’s primary wetland guardian for over half a century, declared that it is “getting out of the business of regulating wetlands.” This followed a seismic shift at the Environmental Protection Agency…
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Rita Robles’s life is ruled by allergies, the worst effects from which can last for months at a time. She uses rescue inhalers, a nebulizer, and a maintenance inhaler — on top of a slew of other medications. Even then, it’s often not enough. “There are times when I’m outside just walking to the driveway and it’ll feel like something catches in my throat, and it causes me to go into a choking…
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