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Sales of ebikes surge as cities and states look to cut pollution from cars and improve options for Americans to get around

Hawaii's governor and mayor invited tourists back to the west side of Maui months after the Aug. 8 fire killed at least 100 people and destroyed more than 2,000 buildings.

Utility companies also train members to sell builders on the continued use of the planet-heating fossil fuel, including through trainings at conferences and webinars. “Stress the lifestyle benefits that come with a natural gas home,” one instructor said in a recording of a training session heard by the Guardian.

It's a truism in foreign policy circles that the world learned some hard lessons from Donald Trump's volatile first term as president.