Trump's 'Energy Dominance' Gets Slow Start On Federal Land
President Trump's goal of achieving "energy dominance" for the United States includes producing more oil and gas on federal land, but new government statistics show a mixed record on this front during...
View ArticlePresident Trump Orders Help For Coal And Nuclear Plants
President Trump has ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take immediate steps to help financially troubled coal and nuclear power plants. A draft plan marked "confidential" is being circulated around...
View ArticleAs Nuclear Struggles, A New Generation Of Engineers Is Motivated By Climate...
The number of people graduating with nuclear engineering degrees has more than tripled since a low point in 2001, and many are passionate about their motivation. "I'm here because I think I can save...
View Article2 Atlantic City Casinos To Open Under New Owners
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In Atlantic City, casino after casino have shut down in recent years. They've left thousands of people out of work. Now there's some good...
View ArticleAlleged Capital Gazette Gunman Apparently Trapped Victims In Newsroom
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Now to the latest news on the ongoing investigation of yesterday's deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. Five...
View ArticleActivists Have A New Strategy To Block Gas Pipelines: State's Rights
Environmental activists are using a new strategy to block construction of oil and gas pipelines. It already has worked in New York where construction on the Constitution Pipeline has stalled. Now...
View ArticleComing To The Right Answer By Themselves: Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault
In the basement of a suburban Philadelphia home, half a dozen high school freshman boys recently met to munch on chips and pretzels — and to talk about sexual assault in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh...
View Article2 Years After Standing Rock Protests, Tensions Remain But Oil Business Booms
Two years ago in North Dakota, after months of protest by thousands of indigenous and environmental activists, pipeline opponents celebrated when the Obama administration denied a key permit for the...
View ArticleTrump's EPA Plans To Ease Carbon Emissions Rule For New Coal Plants
The Trump administration plans to eliminate an Obama-era requirement that new coal-fired power plants have expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. This latest administration effort to...
View ArticleHow One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe
At a major climate meeting in Poland, nearly 200 countries are trying to reach a deal on dramatically reducing carbon emissions. But a recent U.N. report found that may not be enough to avoid dangerous...
View ArticlePhilly Frustration, 1968: 'The Day That They Were All Against Everything'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2DwRkLIQE Mention the Philadelphia Eagles and last year's Super Bowl win comes to mind. But so does that time fans booed and pelted Santa Claus with snow balls. It...
View ArticleTrump EPA Says Mercury Limits On Coal Plants Too Costly, Not 'Necessary'
In another proposed reversal of an Obama-era standard, the Environmental Protection Agency Friday said limiting mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants is not...
View ArticleFederal Employees Moonlight To Pay The Bills
As the standoff between President Trump and Congress continues over funding for Trump's proposed border wall, the partial shutdown of the federal government means workers will go weeks without a...
View ArticleDespite Few Details And Much Doubt, The Green New Deal Generates Enthusiasm
For a nonbinding resolution with an uncertain future, the Green New Deal is getting a lot of attention, along with a decidedly mixed reaction. Dozens of Democrats on Thursday introduced the measure, an...
View ArticlePresident Trump And Allies Push To Save A Very Specific Coal Plant
In his latest effort to boost the coal business — and in the process help a major supporter — President Trump has called on the Tennessee Valley Authority to, essentially, ignore the advice of its...
View ArticleFor The Few Who Heat Homes With Coal, It's Still King
Every few weeks, John Ord does something unusual for most people living in 2019 — he stops by a local hardware store in rural northeastern Pennsylvania to buy coal to heat his home. He recently spent...
View ArticleStudents Around The World Skip School To Call For More Action To Address...
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Around the world, students skipped school today to call for more action to address climate change. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)...
View ArticleTrump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs
If it's been a few years since you shopped for a lightbulb, you might find yourself confused. Those controversial curly-cue ones that were cutting edge not that long ago? Gone. (Or harder to find.)...
View ArticleAs Nuclear Waste Piles Up, Private Companies Pitch New Ways To Store It
Congress is once again debating how to dispose of the country's growing inventory of nuclear waste. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is proposing legislation that would jump-start licensing hearings for the...
View ArticleThis Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer
Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up. An Oregon company, NuScale Power , wants to change that trend by building nuclear plants...
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