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Chris D'Angelo is an environment reporter at HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. He covers public lands, climate change, biodiversity and environmental policy. Prior to joining HuffPost, he wrote for daily newspapers in Hawaii. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and his reporting has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii Chapter and the Hawaii Publishers Association. Chris can be reached at 314-580-0191, chris.dangelo@huffpost.com or on Twitter @c_m_dangelo.
HuffPostBiden Hits A Rough Patch With Climate Hawks
After months of smooth sailing with climate and environmental groups, the president and his team find themselves on shaky ground.
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Biden Faces First Major Climate Protest As President
Sunrise Movement, the youth campaigners behind the Green New Deal, are set to rally at the White House.
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Biden Administration To Suspend Trump-Era Oil Leases In Arctic Refuge
Biden had vowed during the campaign to “reverse the Trump administration’s assaults on America’s natural treasures," including the Alaska refuge.
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Big Tobacco Hooked Black Americans On Menthols. Now It Fights Ban As Racial Injustice.
Tobacco giant Altria is "feeding into the fears of Black folks" and "taking advantage of the climate of demand for social justice," said one civil rights activist.
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Biden's Climate Chops Face A Big Test On Old-Growth Forests
As the administration lays out an aggressive climate and conservation agenda, the Forest Service has primed logging projects in carbon-rich forests.
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Biden Administration Greenlights Major Wind Project Off East Coast
Once complete, Vineyard Wind will be the nation’s largest offshore wind farm, powering approximately 400,000 homes.
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Burger Bans And Land Grabs: The Right's Deceptive War Against Biden’s Climate Goals
Republicans in Congress are parroting an anti-conservation group's talking points about the White House's goal of protecting 30% of lands and waters by 2030.
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Biden’s Pick For No. 2 At Interior Has Numerous Ties To Fossil Fuels
Tommy Beaudreau has a long list of potential conflicts of interest, including former clients in the coal, oil, gas and renewable energy sectors.
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Emails Show Oil Lobby Mobilized Democratic Governors' Opposition To Biden Energy Order
The effort included helping draft a letter in which Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) pushed back against the administration's pause on new oil and gas leasing.
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Biden Administration Makes It Easier For Tribes To Reacquire Lands
Tuesday's actions “unwind the bureaucratic knot" that the Trump administration created in the process of placing lands into trust, one Interior official said.
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Harriet Tubman's Family Home Unearthed In Maryland Wildlife Refuge
Tubman spent part of her childhood in the cabin before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Deb Haaland Scraps A Slew Of Fossil Fuel-Friendly Trump Orders
The Interior Secretary also signed an order to establish a climate task force to coordinate climate action across the massive federal agency.
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Madison Cawthorn Wants To Protect Trump's Half-Finished Wall As A Monument
The freshman GOP congressman says he's “proud” to introduce the "Donument Act"(sigh) to “protect the southern border wall from alteration.”
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For Republicans, Pipes Are Infrastructure Only If They Carry Oil
Unhappy with President Joe Biden's sweeping American Jobs Plan, members of the GOP have latched on to an extremely narrow definition of infrastructure.
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Biden's Jobs Plan Includes $10B For A Civilian Climate Corps. Is It Enough?
The White House says the New Deal-style program will “mobilize the next generation of conservation and resilience workers.”
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Biden Administration Boosts Wind And Solar Ambitions Ahead Of Infrastructure Push
The U.S. currently has 42 megawatts of offshore wind online. The Biden administration just set a goal of deploying 30,000 megawatts by 2030.
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Democrats Move To Scrap Trump-Era Rollback Of Methane Rules
Lawmakers are looking to the Congressional Review Act to restore Obama-era rules limiting emissions of the super-pollutant.
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Biden Team Scraps Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Away Tribal Lands
A 2020 legal memo gave North Dakota ownership of mineral rights beneath the section of the Missouri River that flows through the Fort Berthold Reservation.
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Deb Haaland Makes History As First Native American Cabinet Secretary
The Senate confirmed the congresswoman to lead the Interior Department, putting an Indigenous woman in charge of stewarding America's public lands.
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Senator Calls Out Opposition To Deb Haaland: 'A Woman Of Color Is Being Held To A Different Standard'
“I think we need to be honest with ourselves about what is going on here,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) plans to say on the Senate floor Monday.