Tag: Climate and environment

New York will be center of money-focused fight to slow climate change

NEW YORK -- The effort to save the pale blue dot called Earth is all about the green — that is, the money...

The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out

PORTLAND, Maine -- Fall is back, and bringing with it jack-o'-lanterns, football, pumpkin spice everything and — in some parts of the country...

The AI boom may give Three Mile Island a new life supplying power to Microsoft's data centers

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor...

House backs measure to overturn Biden auto emissions rule that Republicans say would force EV sales

WASHINGTON -- The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say...

Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher

CACONDE, Brazil -- Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining...

Seeking to counter China, US awards $3 billion for EV battery production in 14 states

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials...