Trump administration cancels $3.7B in funds for 24 projects aiming to cut emissions

The Trump administration has canceled nearly $4 billion in awards for emerging energy technologies issued under the Biden administration, it announced Friday. A press release described the $3.7 billion in canceled funding as mostly carbon capture projects — where technology is used to cut planet-warming emissions from fossil fuel plants — and “decarbonization initiatives.” It...

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Duffy says climate science will ‘move aside,’ with NASA only focusing on space exploration

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration. “All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA we're going to move aside, and all of the science that we do...

Interior orders offshore wind project halted as Trump seeks ‘no windmills’

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Trump administration cancels $3.7B in funds for 24 projects aiming to cut emissions

The Trump administration has canceled nearly $4 billion in awards for emerging energy technologies issued under the Biden administration, it announced Friday. A press release described the $3.7 billion in canceled funding as mostly carbon capture projects — where technology is used to cut planet-warming emissions from fossil fuel plants — and “decarbonization initiatives.” It...

North American iguanas rafted 5,000 miles to colonize Fiji: Study

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, a new study has found. Their epic journey to what is now Fiji marks the longest known transoceanic expansion of...

Pennsylvania abandons Northeast climate pact

Pennsylvania will no longer seek to be part of a regional climate agreement among states in the Northeast U.S. A recent budget deal ends the commonwealth's effort to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), according to a statement from state Senate Republicans. The initiative sets a cap on planet-warming emissions and requires power plants in the...

Second MAHA report’s release delayed

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