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Chris Wright, the founder of a fracking services company, argues that oil and gas are key to alleviating global poverty. Read More

State regulators said the measures would probably have been rejected by the Trump administration and that they would focus on homegrown legal strategies instead. Read More

The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, had just $377 million available last week to pay claims that could reach billions, officials said. Read More

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said. Read More

Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently. Read More

The high court declined to hear a challenge to a major case in which Honolulu is suing energy companies over climate change. Read More

Harold G. Hamm, the founder of the Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, and other oil and gas companies stand to profit from Donald Trump’s energy policies. Read More

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