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The state is already dealing with the ramifications of fewer lease areas needed to develop offshore wind farms.

Danish energy company Ørsted has exited an agreement with Mayland to sell electricity from an offshore wind farm it plans to build off the coast of Ocean City, casting a shadow of doubt on Maryland’s ability to achieve its target of 100 percent clean energy by 2035.

Owner’s Withdrawal From Offshore Wind Project Hobbles Maryland’s Clean Energy Plans

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Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

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A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.

NEW YORK CITY—The group in the Brooklyn studio seemed harmless. There was a graduate student, a Yiddish teacher, a hairdresser. Fifteen people had gathered on a Wednesday night for a training offered by Extinction Rebellion NYC and Climate Defiance, two climate activist groups that engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and theatrical protest.

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

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Gobbled up by Agriculture

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Go behind the scenes with reporters Kiley Bense and Georgina Gustin as they discuss how agriculture is devouring the world’s grasslands, savannas and wetlands.

Agriculture is the biggest driver of forest destruction around the world, especially in well-known places like the Amazon rainforest.

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Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

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The concerns originate in a state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades detention site, which has detained thousands of migrants since opening last summer.

A state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz, conducted after opponents sued, raises concerns about pollution from the more than 200 generators powering the facility.

Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

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