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Climate Jobs New Jersey will follow a Cornell University blueprint to tackle climate change, curtail state emissions, create high-quality union jobs and reduce electricity costs.

Standing inside the New Jersey Statehouse last month, Claudia Mutzus wore a T-shirt from the Service Employees International Union and held a banner emblazoned with the words, “Built by New Jersey workers for New Jersey families.”

New Jersey Unions Create a Coalition Focused on Decreasing Energy Costs and Creating Solar Jobs

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Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

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“This idea that you can invoke a national security exemption when there is no threat to national security is not only brand new, it’s ridiculous.”

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Pat Parenteau, an emeritus professor and senior fellow for climate policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

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Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

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Years of debate on electric vehicles in Virginia have slowed the transition, now under full Democratic control.

Republican state lawmakers want a temporary pause on Virginia’s 32 cent per gallon gas tax to help offset rising prices at the pump resulting from President Donald Trump’s ill-defined and unpopular war in Iran.

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

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EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

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Inclusion on the agency’s draft Contaminant Candidate List doesn’t require the EPA to monitor or set limits on microplastics in drinking water.

Citing the Trump administration’s promise to “Make America Healthy Again,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a draft list of contaminants maintained by the agency.

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

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