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Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in 'carbon removal'

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in 'carbon removal'

The Energy Department announced Friday it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history.
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Fast-moving Hawaii fires will take a heavy toll on the state's environment

Fast-moving Hawaii fires will take a heavy toll on the state's environment

The fast-moving wildfires that raked Maui this week took a heavy toll on humans and property, killing dozens of people and devastating the historic town of Lahaina .
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EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment

EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following the fiery train derailment in East P
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Ring by ring, majestic banyan tree in heart of fire-scorched Lahaina chronicles 150 years of history

Ring by ring, majestic banyan tree in heart of fire-scorched Lahaina chronicles 150 years of history

For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town's historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the Hawaiian sun.
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Arizona state fish, the Apache trout, is no longer considered endangered

PHOENIX (AP) — More than 50 years since it was listed as endangered, Arizona's state fish is looking in much better shape. The U.S.
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53 people have died from the Maui wildfires, governor says, and historic Lahaina has burned down

53 people have died from the Maui wildfires, governor says, and historic Lahaina has burned down

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — A search of the wildfire devastation on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of obliterated neighborhoods and landmarks charred beyond recognition, as the death toll rose to at least 53 and survivors tol
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Wildfire devastates Hawaii's Lahaina, historic town and onetime capital of former kingdom

Wildfire devastates Hawaii's Lahaina, historic town and onetime capital of former kingdom

KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — The wildfire that has brought sheer devastation to Maui is especially heartbreaking for Hawaii because it struck one of its most historic towns and the onetime capital of the former kingdom.
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Cases against 146 Fairy Creek logging protesters are dropped after high court ruling

Cases against 146 Fairy Creek logging protesters are dropped after high court ruling

OTTAWA — The BC Prosecution Service says it's dropping 146 cases against old-growth logging protesters after Canada's highest court refused to hear an appeal against the acquittal of a demonstrator who had been cleared of criminal contempt.
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Flash drought, invasive grasses, winds, hurricane and climate change fuel Maui's devastating fires

Flash drought, invasive grasses, winds, hurricane and climate change fuel Maui's devastating fires

Hawaii went from lush to bone dry and thus more fire-prone in a matter of just a few weeks — a key factor in a dangerous mix of conditions appear to have combined to make the wildfires blazing a path of destruction in Hawaii particularly damaging.
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A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise?

A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise?

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly $3 billion in settlement money from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast and killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals is now funding a massive ecosystem restoration in southeastern Louisiana
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