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Maryland trashes recycling company whose sites became alleged dumps

Maryland's Department of the Environment is suing a Prince George's County recycling outfit, for allegedly operating illegal garbage dumps in Cheverly and Baltimore.

By Fredrick Kunkle

Ski resorts can now make fake snow in 80 degrees. Here’s why that’s a problem.

By Amudalat Ajasa

‘Vegan,’ ‘sustainable’: How to spot misleading fashion claims

By Allyson Chiu

Introducing The Post’s expanded Climate coverage

By Sally Buzbee

How to make your home more energy efficient — and get a tax break too

By Erica Werner

Clean-energy push puts abandoned Philippine nuclear plant back in spotlight

By Rebecca Tan and Jhesset O. Enano

Biden bans logging roads in much of America’s largest national forest

By Timothy Puko

We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme cold could wreck cities

By Bonnie Berkowitz, Artur Galocha and Júlia Ledur

Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push

By Evan Halper, Timothy Puko and Dino Grandoni

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The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly

These relatively cool spots offer yet more examples of how humanity has damaged the planet.

By Scott Dance, Niko Kommenda and Simon Ducroquet

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One man’s lonely quest to save the world’s corals draws a following

After working in obscurity for decades, Anuar Abdullah is emerging as an increasingly influential, somewhat unlikely expert on how to revive the world's coral reefs.

By Rebecca Tan

Giving ‘Mother Nature a little bit of a boost’ on the Great Barrier Reef

By Frances Vinall and Michael Robinson Chavez

How the Inflation Reduction Act might affect you — and change the U.S.

By Jeff Stein, Maxine Joselow and Rachel Roubein

Six steps the world can take to halt climate change

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis

How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate

By Allyson Chiu

Concert tours can strain the environment. Here's how some artists are cutting carbon emissions.

By Ta'Leah Van Sistine

A look at how the electric vehicle revolution is going

By Lee Powell

8 ways renters can make their homes greener

By Rachel Fairbank

The unique ways Filipinos are protecting their homes against floods

By Regine Cabato, William Neff and Hannah Dormido

Politics and Policy

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Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining

By Timothy Puko

Meet the man who unwittingly triggered the war over gas stoves

By Maxine Joselow

Biden bans logging roads in much of America’s largest national forest

By Timothy Puko

Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push

By Evan Halper, Timothy Puko and Dino Grandoni

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Death toll in Buffalo blizzard rises; delayed emergency response cited

The announcement of three more deaths possibly attributed to EMS delays comes amid blowback from residents about the city’s preparation for December's blizzard.

By Brianna Sacks