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Green Steel Jobs Multiply With Biden Energy Plan, Granholm Says

Jennifer Granholm features prominently as a chief seller of Biden’s climate and economic agenda this election year, crisscrossing the US promising CEOs and workers alike that a clean energy transition can create good-paying union jobs and revitalize manufacturing towns.

Biden Climate Corps Moves to Hire Youth for 2,000 Green Jobs

Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) in Hawaii: These are a few of the paid positions that job seekers can now apply for through the Biden administration’s American Climate Corps.

Biden Rule Orders Hard Environmental Look at Federal Buildings

The federal government will have to take a harder look at environmental, social, and economic factors when picking sites for federal facilities under a final rule issued on Monday.

EPA Gives $7 Billion in Solar for All Grants for 60 Awardees

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the selection of 60 recipients of $7 billion in grant awards through the Solar for All grant competition, the agency said Monday.

Heat Pump Makers Woo Contractors in Effort to Spur US Sales

When Miranda Sherman’s gas furnace suddenly died during a recent cold snap, she did what most Americans would do: She searched for “furnace won’t ignite” on Google, realized the machine was beyond repair and started calling contractors first thing in the morning.

Rare Toads or Clean Energy? An Environmental Law Fight in Nevada

In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.

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EPA Revises How It Studies Chemicals’ Risks for Restrictions

Future decisions the EPA makes about whether chemicals are so risky that their commercial uses must be restricted will be made using statutory interpretations and policies the Biden administration already has been using, according to a final rule the agency released Tuesday.

UK Firms Told to ‘Urgently Review’ Green Claims Amid Crackdown

Firms operating in the UK are being advised to go through any products and services around which some sort of sustainability claim has been made, to ensure they’re not in the crosshairs of a regulatory crackdown that’s due to take effect at the end of next month.

SunPower Slides After Disclosing Plans to Restate Earnings

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California Fights to Keep Insurers Despite Fire Risk

How a Rare Toad Species Stopped a Clean Energy Project

Climate Change Fuels Texas Boom Towns' Water Worries

Insurers Sue Their Own Clients to Dodge PFAS Claims

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FTC Issues Non-Compete Ban as Chamber Lawsuit Looms (1)

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Tabloid CEO Says He Squashed Negative Stories on Trump Affairs

The former head of the company that owned the National Enquirer told a New York jury about a 2015 meeting where he effectively became a conspirator in a plot to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign by squashing negative stories about his womanizing.