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    California crowed that it ‘finally beat big oil’ 2 years ago. Regulators just halted the landmark penalty payments

    Energy regulators put the brakes on plans requiring oil firms to pay if their profits climb too high after two refineries announced plans to close.

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
    August 30, 2025

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    Colorado River
    Environment

    ‘It’s getting pretty scary’: The Colorado River, 40 million Americans, 7 states and no plan for how to manage inevitable decline

    By Dorany Pineda and The Associated Press
    August 27, 2025
    Haboob
    Environment

    America gripped by towering haboobs as dust storms take Southwest by storm

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    August 27, 2025
    Nicolle Ritchie peels corn facing away from the camera in the midst of a corn field.
    Environment

    ‘Like the corn’s never getting a break. It’s just hot all the time’: How America’s farmers conquered climate change for a ‘monster’ harvest

    By Melina Walling, Joshua A. Bickel and The Associated Press
    August 25, 2025
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    Environment

    It’s so hot in the western U.S. that some people are ‘wobbling’ and collapsing to the ground as they walk outside

    By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press
    August 24, 2025
    Shark
    Environment

    Climate change means more great white sharks in the waters of New England every summer

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
    August 24, 2025
    Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
    Energy

    Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise

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    August 24, 2025
    The rendering of Meta's planned data center complex in Richland Parish shows a massive arrive of facilities to power the AI boom.
    Features

    Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout

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    August 24, 2025
    Joni Ernst
    Environment

    Calling the Post Office’s switch to EVs a ‘textbook example of waste,’ GOP wants to waste millions of dollars already spent on transition

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
    August 18, 2025
    Solar panels
    Environment

    Instead of a $50,000 solar panel on your roof, how about a $2,000 one small enough to fit on your deck? ‘We thought absolutely, let’s do this right away’

    By Isabella O'Malley and The Associated Press
    August 15, 2025
    Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
    Politics

    Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace

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    August 15, 2025
    Dogs
    Environment

    Your dog is part of the climate change problem: ‘I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore’

    By Caleigh Wells and The Associated Press
    August 14, 2025
    Crater of Diamonds State Park
    Environment

    31-year-old New Yorker who found a 2-karat diamond in a volcanic crater is going to wear it for an engagement ring

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    August 14, 2025
    Spain wildfire
    Environment

    Much of Greece, Spain and Portugal is on fire as Southern Europe braces for wildfire season

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    August 14, 2025
    Ashton Dolce
    Environment

    ‘I was just dumbfounded’: Trump kicks 15 high school students out of FEMA Youth Preparedness Council

    By Gabriela Aoun Angueira and The Associated Press
    August 13, 2025
    Black bear
    Environment

    Florida allows first black bear hunt in a decade

    By Curt Anderson and The Associated Press
    August 13, 2025
    James Litinsky, Chairman and CEO, MP Materials
    Tech

    How deals with Apple and Trump’s Pentagon turned rare earth miner MP Materials into a red-hot stock

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    August 12, 2025
    Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change
    Environment

    Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change

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    August 12, 2025
    Heat wave
    Environment

    ‘Not your grandparents’ summers’: 70 million east coast Americans just had the muggiest June and July in history

    By Seth Borenstein, M.K. Wildeman and The Associated Press
    August 10, 2025
    President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15.
    Tech

    AI’s endless thirst for power is driving a natural gas boom in Appalachia—and industry stocks are booming along with it

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    August 9, 2025
    Europe heat wave
    Environment

    July 2025 was the third-hottest ever recorded, EU scientists say

    By Paolo Santalucia, Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press
    August 7, 2025
    Jellyfish
    Environment

    ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: Delaware beach-goers swear they feel the jellyfish sting more than ever

    By Mingson Lau, Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
    August 6, 2025
    Embattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO
    Investing

    Embattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO

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    August 5, 2025
    As Europe pushes towards its €1.5 trillion renewables target, companies like Ikea look for green power opportunities today 
    Economy

    As Europe pushes towards its €1.5 trillion renewables target, companies like Ikea look for green power opportunities today 

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    August 5, 2025
    “Decarbonization is not just a climate plan, it is an economic strategy.” Why European competitiveness hinges on homegrown power
    Economy

    “Decarbonization is not just a climate plan, it is an economic strategy.” Why European competitiveness hinges on homegrown power

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    August 5, 2025
    Martín Ibarra Vargas
    Environment

    Flesh-eating parasite tears through Mexican cattle as Texas braces for ‘devastating pest’

    By Fernando Llano, Fabiola Sánchez and The Associated Press
    August 5, 2025
    Forced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian
    Finance

    Forced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian

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    August 1, 2025
    A manufacturing engineer prepares a battery storage submodule for lifting at Peak Energy's plant in California.
    Features

    We’re about to see a $1 trillion ‘supercycle’ of investment in batteries to power the grid for AI

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    August 1, 2025
    Kerr County
    Environment

    Kerr County officials reveal they were asleep, out of town during night of catastrophic flood

    By Nadia Lathan and The Associated Press
    July 31, 2025
    Russia earthquake
    Environment

    Russia rocked by one of the most powerful earthquakes of the century, sending tsunami warning across Pacific

    By Danica Kirka, Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
    July 30, 2025
    Southeast US
    Environment

    ‘Everybody’s complaining they ain’t never seen it this hot’: Central and Eastern U.S. suffers through ‘dangerous and prolonged’ heat

    By Russ Bynum, Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
    July 30, 2025

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