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Repair work is done on power lines affected by Hurricane Maria April 18, 2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Getty Images)

Wall Street superpower eyes the electricity business

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EPA to ease rules on power plants storing deadly coal ash

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Forest Service moves to open “America’s Amazon” to loggers

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Bears Ears National Monument (Getty/lightphoto)

Trump’s Interior Department stacks environmental panel with anti-environmentalists

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The army quietly re-opens its infamous germ warfare lab

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Inhofe is OK flooding his neighbors if it keeps his lake view

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Big power distributor favors coal-burning over clean energy

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New health concerns over synthetic playing fields

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FILE - In a Friday, March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

Meet Trump’s “see no evil” energy commission nominee

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Energy commission shields big political donor

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Acid rain, that ’70s scourge, comes back

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A North Atlantic right whale swims in the waters of Cape Cod Bay April 14, 2019 near Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

Enlarged Atlantic fishing area could further imperil right whales

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A cliff dwelling preserved for millennia by the dry high-desert climate was included in a March 20 lease sale for oil and gas companies in southeast Utah. Officials from the federal Bureau of Land Management published confidential information online about locations and descriptions of almost 900 Native American antiquities, including cliff dwellings, in Utah. (Steven St. John for Reveal)

Trump’s man at the Bureau of Land Management wants it dismantled

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FILE - In this March 21, 2016 file photo, the Flint Water Plant water tower is seen in Flint, Mich. The Trump administration would slash programs aimed at slowing climate change and improving water safety and air quality, while eliminating thousands of jobs, according to a draft of the Environmental Protection Agency budget proposal obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) (AP)

Trump country begs for clean water

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Metropolitan Sewer District workers are seen being boated to shore at the completion of their shift as they monitor the nearby levee along the banks of the Meramec River on May 4, 2017 in Fenton, Missouri. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

Damaged Missouri River levees may take years to repair and rebuild

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Barack Obama; Donald Trump (Getty/Scott Olson/AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump sabotages Obama-era chemical law

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A buried section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline emerges a few miles north of the Yukon River on July 21, 2002 in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Barry Williams/Getty Images)

Radical Republicans on energy panel push giant Alaska gas pipeline

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Republicans seek to weaken environmental appeals board

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Pump jacks are seen on the Bakken Shale Formation, near Williston, North Dakota, September 6, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

North Dakota may be hiding a gigantic oil spill

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A land and water grab in parched Utah

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Idle fishing boats sit at the docks May 3, 2010 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The fleet are confined to port since the shutdown of all fishing on the Gulf Coast due to the oil spill from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images) (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

How a little known government board decimated gulf coast fisheries

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FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. An effort is under way to reintroduce alligator gar into lakes, rivers and backwaters of several states possibly to help control populations of the invasive carp. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File) (AP)

Republicans block effort to save the Great Lakes from invasive Asian carp

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In this Sept. 25, 2012 photo, a bulldozer works at the Chuquicamata copper mine in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

EPA Inspector General wants to know how something like this was OK’d

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In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 photo, floodwaters overtake a home in Holly Bluff, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Storm may force flooding thousands of acres of farmland

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