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Trump’s DOJ Drops Environmental Justice Lawsuit Against Chemical Plant in ‘Cancer Alley’

Trump’s DOJ Drops Environmental Justice Lawsuit Against Chemical Plant in ‘Cancer Alley’

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has agreed to drop an environmental justice case against the Denka petrochemical plant in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” The Biden-era lawsuit sought to curb chloroprene emissions that are harming surrounding majority-Black communities like Reserve, Louisiana. Filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the lawsuit stated that Denka’s chloroprene […]

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    Solar and Battery Storage Expected to Lead New Electricity Generation Capacity for 2025: EIA

    Solar and Battery Storage Expected to Lead New Electricity Generation Capacity for 2025: EIA

    The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released predictions for 2025 in its latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report. The organization announced that new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in the U.S. will reach 63 gigawatts (GW), led by additions to solar and battery capacity. The latest report noted that in 2024, utility-scale solar capacity made up […]

    Brazil Joins OPEC+ Ahead of Hosting UN Climate Summit

    Brazil Joins OPEC+ Ahead of Hosting UN Climate Summit

    Brazil’s National Council for Energy Policy has approved the joining of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) just months before the country is set to host the United Nations COP30 climate change summit. The approval was in response to a 2023 invitation from OPEC. “OPEC welcomes the decision approved today by the National […]

    World’s Richest Nations Are ‘Exporting Extinction’ With Demand for Agricultural and Forestry Imports: Study

    World’s Richest Nations Are ‘Exporting Extinction’ With Demand for Agricultural and Forestry Imports: Study

    The richest countries in the world are “exporting extinction” by destroying 15 times more biodiversity globally than they do within their own borders, according to a new Princeton University study. The researchers found that 13.3 percent of biodiversity loss worldwide came from the consumption of high-income countries, a press release from Princeton said. “Biodiversity loss […]

    Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

    Climate Crisis Is Causing a Chocolate Market Meltdown: Study

    According to a new report by independent research group Climate Central, the climate crisis has driven weeks of hot temperatures in West Africa’s “cocoa belt,” where roughly 70% of the cocoa in the world is produced, impacting harvests and likely causing record chocolate prices. Between July of 2022 and February of last year, cocoa prices […]

    Pennsylvania Governor Sues Trump Administration Over Frozen IRA Funds

    Pennsylvania Governor Sues Trump Administration Over Frozen IRA Funds

    Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald Trump’s administration for freezing funding made available through the Inflation Reduction Act. As Utility Dive reported, Trump ordered a freeze to IRA funds in an executive order made his first day in office. According to the governor’s office, Pennsylvania state agencies have not […]

    A Flood of Ash: The Fight for Justice in Kingston, Tennessee

    A Flood of Ash: The Fight for Justice in Kingston, Tennessee

    Just before Christmas in 2008 in the Tennessee town of Kingston, a pile of coal ash located near the Kingston Fossil Plant broke free and spread into the 300 acres surrounding the plant and eventually into the Emory River Channel. The six-story high pile of coal ash – residue from burning coal – had accumulated […]