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The 86-year-old leader of the 1.3 billion-member Catholic Church bluntly urges more aggressive action to curb emissions at the next U.N. climate meeting in eight weeks.

Taking aim at the United States and an “irresponsible lifestyle” with some of the world’s highest carbon emissions per capita, Pope Francis on Wednesday doubled down on his earlier call for urgent action to tackle climate change, while also criticizing a failing global response to the crisis.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

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Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far

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Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.

The Trump administration’s emergency order to keep the huge J.H. Campbell coal plant on Lake Michigan operating past its planned retirement date has cost at least $80 million since May, its operator, Consumers Energy, told regulators and investors this week.

Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far

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CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk

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Tons of coal and diesel fuel spilled into wetlands that are hard to access to cleanup.

A train derailment last Saturday dumped coal and diesel fuel into wetlands near the Chickahimony River in Virginia, and nearby residents and environmentalists worry that the contaminants could flow into the waterway.

CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk

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A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

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Deep River Data, with ties to cryptocurrency, says it would use the extracted gas to power a data center for “AI workloads,” not crypto mines.

A company with connections to the cryptocurrency industry is considering drilling for natural gas near the Deep River north of Sanford in Lee County, North Carolina.

A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

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