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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Lisa Vrooman with her boyfriend John Rock, dog Umar and cat Mochi. They love the high ceilings in their 650-square-foot apartment, but keeping it cool is costly.
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    Pandemic Electric Bills Are Searing Hot, As Families Stay Home

    Aug 17, 2020
    With lights out in many offices and millions of people plugging in at home, residential power bills are soaring, even as overall electricity consumption slumps during the recession.
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    National
    The sun sets through smoke created by the Ranch Fire on Aug. 13, 2020, in Azusa, Calif. A heat wave has prompted electrical providers to issue the first rolling blackouts in the state since 2001.
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    California Issues First Rolling Blackouts Since 2001, As Heat Wave Bakes Western U.S.

    Aug 15, 2020
    California electrical utilities implemented their first rolling blackouts since 2001, as the state grapples with an intense, prolonged heat wave.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., in 2015. The Trump administration is lifting an Obama-era rule aimed at limiting emissions of methane, a potent climate-warming gas.
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    Trump's Methane Rollback That Big Oil Doesn't Want

    Aug 13, 2020
    The rule would end Obama-era restrictions on emissions of methane, a potent climate-warming gas. The move could make it harder to argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning fossil fuel than coal.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Amy Holditch settles in behind the wheel of the RV she rented for her 10-day family trip from Madison, Ala. to Cape Cod, Mass.
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    Not Flying This Summer? Many Americans Are Hitting The Road — In RVs

    Aug 02, 2020
    The summer vacation, an annual rite for so many, is not an easy thing to give up, even during a pandemic.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    Not your grandmother's nuclear reactor. A drawing of Oklo's proposed Aurora nuclear power plant, which would produce enough electricity for about 1000 homes.
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    Smaller Nuclear Plants May Come With Less Stringent Safety Rules

    Aug 01, 2020
    Proposed new emergency preparedness rules would allow nuclear plants closer to where people live. Companies say the plants are safer, but they need the rule changes for a viable business model.
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    Law
    A 1991 photo of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend who now faces multiple counts of sex trafficking.
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    Judge Releases Trove Of Sealed Records Related To Case Against Ghislaine Maxwell

    Jul 31, 2020
    The judge unsealed hundreds of pages of documents related to a now-settled defamation suit brought against Maxwell by one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    West Atlanta resident Harriet Feggins has been out of work since March because of the pandemic. So far she has managed to pay her electric bill by scraping together odd jobs and dipping into her 401(k). "I'm trying to do everything I can," she says, but
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    'Tidal Wave' Of Power Shut-Offs Looms As Nation Grapples With Heat

    Jul 28, 2020
    Power shut-off moratoriums imposed at the start of the pandemic are beginning to expire. Customers and utilities face a backlog of missed bills that may eventually be passed on to ratepayers.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Pump jacks operate at dusk near Loco Hills in Eddy County, New Mexico, on April 23. U.S. oil producers are grappling with prolonged low oil prices and the uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Oil Industry, Accustomed To Booms And Busts, Is Rocked By Pandemic

    Jul 15, 2020
    When the price of oil crashes, oil companies often merge and big oil gets even bigger. So this crisis could be an opportunity for companies, but it comes with a tremendous amount of uncertainty.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    President Trump proposes changes to the National Environmental Policy Act at the White House in January. The final rules aims to speed approval of pipelines and other infrastructure.
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    Trump Overhauls Key Environmental Law To Speed Up Pipelines And Other Projects

    Jul 15, 2020
    President Trump is making major changes to a bedrock environmental law that he says will help the economy. Critics say the move will sideline input from communities affected by polluting projects.
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    Energy

    Court Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Shutdown As Legal Fight Goes Forward

    Jul 15, 2020
    A federal appellate court temporarily blocked a lower-court order to shut down and empty the controversial oil pipeline. The operator, Energy Transfer, can continue pumping while the case is pending.
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    Elections
    Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden details his $2 trillion climate proposal Tuesday at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del.
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    Biden Outlines $2 Trillion Climate Plan

    Jul 14, 2020
    The former vice president's initiative calls to chart the United States on "an irreversible path" to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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    Native American Activists Victorious After Judge Orders Pipeline Shut Down

    Jul 07, 2020
    NPR's David Greene talks to Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today, about what the Dakota Access Pipeline shutdown means for activists, and where the court battle goes from here.
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    Law
    Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its supporters, shown here during a demonstration in 2017, have opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline for years.
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    Court Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Must Be Emptied For Now

    Jul 06, 2020
    A federal judge has ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to produce a full environmental review. Until then, oil must stop flowing through the controversial pipeline.
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    World

    Turkey's Claims For Drilling Rights In Mediterranean Sea Lead To Threats From Greece

    Jun 30, 2020
    A long-running dispute over the exploration of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is heating up again. Turkey's new claims for drilling rights have led to hostile talk with Greece.
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    Energy

    A Town In N.D. Is Facing Hard Times As Oil Prices Plummet

    Jun 26, 2020
    Williston, N.D., had doubled in size during the oil boom a decade ago — oil companies rushed in to drill, creating thousands of jobs. Now, oil prices have fallen, and the town is facing hard times.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    The Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2 are two of the first electric semi-trucks to hit the highways for test driving
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    California's Landmark Electric Truck Rule Targets 'Diesel Death Zone'

    Jun 26, 2020
    In another first-in-the-nation move to address climate change, California will require automakers to sell electric trucks. That could curb air pollution from the nation's growing logistics industry.
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    Environment

    California Regulators Set To Approve Nation's 1st Electric Truck Mandate

    Jun 25, 2020
    In another move to address climate change, California wants automakers to sell more electric trucks. That includes electric big rigs, which are just starting to hit the road.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    President Barack Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, in Denver.
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    Absent From Stimulus Packages: Overhauling Energy, Climate Programs

    Jun 17, 2020
    Climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are not part of the $3 trillion in U.S. relief packages passed so far — despite a long history of funding energy programs after economic crises.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    President Trump proposes changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in January. His latest executive order allows agencies to waive requirements of the bedrock law to speed up infrastructure projects.
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    Trump Waives Environmental Reviews, Citing Pandemic Economic Emergency

    Jun 04, 2020
    A White House executive order aims to expedite infrastructure projects to boost economic recovery. It lets federal agencies waive environmental protections, but critics question its legality.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    After years of protests against the Constitution Pipeline, New York recently denied a key water quality permit for the project. A new EPA rule would make it harder for states to do that.
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    Trump Administration Limits States' Power To Stop Oil And Gas Pipelines

    Jun 01, 2020
    In recent years, climate activists and states have used the Clean Water Act to block pipelines and other fossil fuel projects. A new EPA rule makes that harder,
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Because of the pandemic, the Bureau of Land Management held virtual public hearings in April on a proposal to expand oil drilling in Alaska's North Slope.
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    Trump Environmental Rollbacks Roll On Despite Pandemic. Opponents Cry Foul

    May 28, 2020
    The Trump administration is rushing to finalize some of its biggest environmental rollbacks ahead of November's election. Some affected groups say they're too distracted by the pandemic to engage.
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    Faces Of The Coronavirus Recession
    Keri Belcher, who has worked in the oil and gas industry, says she's considering switching careers — even if it means less time outdoors, which is what attracted her to geology in the first place.
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    With Oil Collapse, A Geologist Struggles For Prospects; She's 'Just A Little Lost'

    May 26, 2020
    Keri Belcher has worked in the oil and gas industry. But she's considering switching careers — even if it means less time outdoors, which is what attracted her to geology in the first place.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
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    Our Pandemic Habits Cut Carbon Emissions, But It's Not Clear They'll Last

    May 21, 2020
    Energy demand plummeted because of the pandemic shutdown. A big question is whether new habits like telecommuting and flying less will endure, and mean lower oil consumption in the future.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Lendon Partain, a well technician, has never seen so many pump jacks idled across Andrews County. "Right now it's scary," he said.
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    Historic Oil Bust Delivers A Gut Punch To 1 High-Flying Texas County

    May 11, 2020
    Oil companies have slashed production across West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, where communities are also hurting from pandemic-driven business shutdowns.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    An aerial view shows downtown Los Angeles on April 30. U.S. miles driven decreased remarkably quickly in March, and driving slowly started to resume again — while remaining well below typical levels.
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    The Pandemic Emptied American Roads. But Driving Is Picking Back Up

    May 06, 2020
    Miles driven in the U.S. plummeted remarkably in the middle of March — dropping by 30% in a single week. Now driving is slowly resuming, a trend that began before stay-at-home orders were lifted.

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