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  • Jennifer GranholmEnvironment

    ‘It’s almost like it’s a starting gun going off’: The fusion energy breakthrough means winning the climate change race could be just decades away

    By Matthew Daly, Michael Phillis, and others
  • A man kneels down near a huge pile of shredded plastic.Environment

    Environmental groups see a Trojan Horse in big plastic’s plan to scale recycling efforts: ‘Nobody needs more plastic’

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Carbon dioxide and other pollutants billows from a stack at PacifiCorp’s coal-fired Naughton Power Plant, near where Bill Gates company, TerraPower plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File)Politics

    A major economic bill headed to Biden’s desk has ‘game changing’ incentives for nuclear energy companies—especially those locating near a closing coal plant

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER 31: Registered nurses Fernando Fernandez, left, and and Akiko Gordon are working in the ICU with a covid-19 patient at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.Health

    Health officials let COVID-infected staff stay on the job

    By Adriana Gomez Licon, Jennifer McDermott, and others