The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree species in the northern Rocky Mountain ecosystem, is once again thriving, after suffering severe decline during the 20th century, according to the...
Amazon’s emissions increased 6 percent last year, as the e-commerce and cloud computing giant continued to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts and build out its data center footprint. The company’s total emissions ticked up from 64.38 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2023 to 68.25 metric tons in 2024, according to its annual sustainability...
Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package created bad blood on Capitol Hill. White House budget director Russell Vought says the administration plans to send up another wave of spending rescissions to...
Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency and severity, since the construction of the dams — many of which are now in a state of disrepair, according to a new white paper, published by Utah State University. “Removing...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday compared the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program during World War II. “The AI race is the second Manhattan project,” Wright said in a Tuesday poston the social platform X. During the World War II, the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project eventually succeeded in the creation of atomic weapons...
California may have lost up to $3 billion in potential revenue from a signature emissions reduction program over the past year, a new report has found. The Golden State’s cap-and-trade program — a system that sets emissions caps and distributes tradable credits within that framework — has incurred these losses in response to weak auction results, according...
A staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has now taken on a key role at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which President Trump has sought to reduce and reform despite its independent status. David Wright, whom Trump has renominated for a spot on the commission, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are set to announce a new National Farm Security Action Plan on Tuesday morning. The Trump administration officials will be joined by GOP Govs. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Ark.), Jim Pillen (Neb.) and Bill Lee (Tenn.). The initiative, according to a press release from Pillen’s office, is to help protect American farms from...
Senate Republicans on Tuesday abandoned their effort to impose new taxes on solar and wind energy. Text released by the Senate Rules Committee no longer includes a new tax on solar and wind projects if some of their components come from China. The excise tax had been a last-minute addition to the bill and was made public over...
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