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Biden’s Power-Plant Pollution Rule Collides With Soaring Demand

The Biden administration is cracking down on planet-warming pollution from the nation’s electricity sector, with mandates likely to encourage the closure of coal plants that advocates argue are vital to meet surging power demand.

Biden Power-Plant Pollution Rule Draws Senate GOP Rollback Bid

Coal-state Sen. Shelley Moore Capito plans to move to block the Biden administration’s latest effort to curb power-plant pollution.

EPA Finalizes Tougher Mercury Standards for Coal-Fired Utilities

Power plants face updated air toxics requirements targeting mercury and heavy metals in newly finalized standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.

EPA Finalizes Coal Ash Cleanup Rule for Plants’ Legacy Landfills

The EPA finalized a rule to mandate coal ash cleanup at inactive power plants, part of a group of related rules announced Thursday by the administration.

Wind Power Line Wins Biden Backing as Permitting Deadlines Set

The Biden administration has selected an electric transmission line project to receive up to $331 million to bring wind energy from Idaho to Nevada, the latest move to back the connection of more renewable energy to the power grid.

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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BHP Targets Anglo in Bid Valuing Miner at $39 Billion

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-14c5-d583-afbf-d6ddec630000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">BHP Group Ltd. proposed a takeover of Anglo American Plc that values the smaller miner at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion), in a deal that would create the world’s top copper producer while sparking the industry’s biggest shakeup in over a decade.

Insurers Group Targeted by Anti-ESG Campaign Is Being Replaced

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Biden’s Power-Plant Plan Will Have Bigger Carbon-Cutting Reach

The Biden administration’s plan for throttling power-plant pollution is expected to drive far greater reductions of greenhouse gas <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/BI%20ESG","_id":"0000018f-1184-d583-afbf-d3dcca5e0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">emissions than initially expected, even as US electricity demand climbs.

California Fights to Keep Insurers Despite Fire Risk

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