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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) struck down an ordinance banning new residences from installing gas infrastructure for heating and hot water in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

There was a time when most Americans distrusted those who offered them politically provided heavens on earth. Government was viewed as coercive, corrupt and generally incompetent in its attempts to improve the material and other conditions of man through regulation and redistribution.

Vice-Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (R-CA) co-sponsored the Senate resolution to support the Green New Deal (GND). Now former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s nominee for the Presidency in the 2020 election, has endorsed the plan.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled back rules imposed under the administration of President Barack Obama limiting regulating methane emissions from small small oil and gas producers.

Tonopah Solar Energy LLC, which built and operated a huge solar-thermal power plant in the desert in Nye County, Nevada, has filed for bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, a bankruptcy likely to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $225 million.

The Heartland Institute's Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Bjørn Lomborg to discuss his book, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet."

Despite the threat of higher energy costs for ratepayers, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission unanimously imposed a plan to replace 100 percent of the electric power generated by the San Juan Generating Station solely with electricity generated by solar panels and batteries.

A comprehensive environmental review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the proposed Pebble mine in southwest Alaska, found the mine would not significantly impact regional salmon numbers or reproduction.

A bill to block Gov. Tom Wolf from unilaterally entering Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative passed the state House of Representatives and now awaits action in the state Senate.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced his administration has finalized reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act proposed in early January to modernize the environmental review provisions for federal projects and established statutory deadlines for completion environmental reviews.