
Michael Copley
Climate and Corporations Correspondent at NPR
@NPR correspondent, climate & corporations [email protected] | [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
nhpr.org | Michael Copley
The marble office building near Capitol Hill is a world away from Tom Atkinson's home above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. The boss of an electric company in Kotzebue, Atkinson would rather be there, on the freezing edge of the Chukchi Sea. But he's in Washington, D.C., waiting for a meeting with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican, to plead for help.
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1 month ago |
treefrogcreative.ca | Michael Copley |Camila Domonoske |Kevin Mason
The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to target dozens of rules and policies in what the agency called the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.” …[The agency is] reconsidering rules that apply to things like climate pollution from vehicles and power plants, wastewater from coal plants and air pollution from the energy and manufacturing sectors.
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1 month ago |
wkar.org | Michael Copley
Despite the Trump administration's wide-ranging attacks on renewables like wind and solar power, the clean-energy industry is on pace for record growth this year, according to government analysts. The buildout of big solar and battery plants is expected to hit an all-time high in 2025, accounting for 81% of new power generation that companies will add to America's electric grids, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a recent report.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Michael Copley |Camila Domonoske
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1 month ago |
opb.org | Michael Copley |Camila Domonoske
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on his nomination in January. The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to target more than two dozen rules and policies in what the agency called the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.”The EPA didn’t provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.
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