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"The industry-backed measure to protect fossil gas looks to have received enough signatures to appear on the ballot in November."

"Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk."

"A deep dive into the petrochemical industry's proposals for the global plastics treaty."

"Researchers say public chargers are disappearing from some parts of the U.S., while the nationwide charging network falls short of reliability requirements."

"Companies have spent decades obstructing efforts to take on the plastics crisis and may have breached a host of US laws, a new report argues."

"Almost 400 water systems serving nearly a million Californians don’t meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water supplies — and fixing them would cost billions of dollars."

"Pets were once dismissed as trivial scientific subjects. Today, companion animal science is hot."

"The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to limit the broad regulatory authority of federal agencies could lead to the elimination or weakening of thousands of rules on the environment, health care, worker protection, food and drug safety, telecommunications, the financial sector and more."