"In the rural Michigan community Nicholas Schmidt lives, pickup trucks are a way of life. On Thursday, Schmidt and the city he calls home — Standish, Michigan, population less than 1,500 — made history with the handover of a key fob. He became owner No. 1 of Ford Motor Co.’s first electric pickup, the F-150 Lightning."
"Soaring gas prices have Americans bracing for an expensive Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer when vacation-related travel typically spikes."
"The Interior Department today [Thursday] advanced the first-ever potential offshore wind lease sales in two regions adjoining the California coast."
"A secretive vote in the arcane and Byzantine world of international safety standards late last month may lead to a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from home heating and cooling systems in the coming years."
"Some Bakersfield residents are concerned about potential explosions after a state agency found that six idle oil wells near homes were leaking methane in the past several days."
"A push by Missouri regulators to change permitting requirements for coal ash ponds has environmental groups worried important safeguards will be lifted and toxic chemicals and metals could leach into groundwater with few protections."
"Heat pumps are essentially two-way air conditioners that experts say save households money and warm homes without roasting the planet."
"A longtime contractor for Shell has publicly called out the oil and gas company’s climate plans, accusing the company of “double talk” by saying it wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions while working on tapping new sources of fossil fuel."
"A lithium mining startup promised to make a rural pocket of North Carolina a clean-energy boomtown. But perceived slights and concerns over water have turned neighbors against the project."
"Environmental groups are urging the Biden administration to reverse a Trump-era rule that allows rail shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG). The groups say the war in Ukraine, and the subsequent plans by the White House to increase LNG exports, should not derail the Department of Transportation’s proposal to reinstate limits on LNG-by-rail."
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