By Rachel Nostrant (Reuters) - Nearly half of U.S. tap water samples contain toxic "forever chemicals," substances used in hundreds of household items from cleaning supplies to pizza boxes to which broad exposure can carry serious health risks, according to…
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Wednesday approved construction of an offshore windfarm that will generate 1,100 megawatts of power from up to 98 turbines off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the third such…
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) - The Biden administration's climate agenda is facing an unexpected challenge in drought-prone Corpus Christi, Texas, where a proposed clean hydrogen hub would require the installation of energy-intensive, expensive and potentially environmentally damaging seawater desalination plants.…
(Reuters) - Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps national and international governing bodies are taking to regulate…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $450 million to expand the production and availability of transportation fuels that are blended with higher volumes of biofuels, the agency said on Monday. The Biden administration…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Monday that the United States and China - the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - must create a partnership to tackle climate change without allowing…
By Liz Hampton ARTESIA, New Mexico (Reuters) - Charlie Barrett walks through an oilfield in New Mexico's southeastern desert, where the air smells of rotten eggs and old pumpjacks sit among shrub oaks, and turns on an infrared camera that…
By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp has pushed back against investors pressing the largest U.S. oil producer to report on the risks to its business from restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and potential environmental disasters. In a…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Planemakers can't build them but airlines can't stop buying them. Even as they wrestle with industrial problems preventing the delivery of jets sold before the pandemic, Airbus and Boeing are totting up billions of…
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to challenge China's dominance in solar panel manufacturing hinges in large part on rules his administration will soon release defining what it means for a product to be American-made, according…
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