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Toxic 'forever chemicals’ restricted for first time in the U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable. But experts say removing them will cost billions, a burden that will fall hardest on small communities with few resources.
News, US News | March 3rd 2023

Why fusion could be a clean energy game-changer

The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it.
Explainer, US News | December 13th 2022

Fusion breakthrough: reaction produces more energy than it used

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, the Energy Department said.
News | December 13th 2022

Fusion energy breakthrough coming today from U.S. scientists

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a “major scientific breakthrough” Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.
News, US News | December 13th 2022

Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' highlights racial disparity of environmental protection

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an increased risk of cancer from a nearby chemical plant and that state officials have allowed air pollution to remain high and downplayed its threat.
News, US News | October 14th 2022

New climate bill pushes U.S. toward cheap, clean energy

After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.
News, US News, Politics | August 12th 2022

Climate change creates hazards for Alpine glaciers

Italy was enduring a prolonged heat wave before a massive piece of Alpine glacier broke off and killed hikers on Sunday, July 3, 2022, and experts say climate change will make those hot, destabilizing conditions more common.
News | July 6th 2022

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