Forests globally are becoming younger and shorter because of deforestation and climate change, reducing biological diversity and stunting forests’ ability to store atmospheric carbon, according to research published Thursday.

The EPA will hold a virtual public hearing on June 8 on its plan to give retailers and vendors until November to sell their stock of older, dirtier residential wood stoves.

The EPA disagreed with a White House request to use current data when revising its rule on mercury air pollution, publicly available email exchanges show, which a law professor says could weaken the agency’s legal defense of the regulation.

House Republicans Thursday unveiled legislation aimed at reducing America’s reliance on imported critical minerals integral to the nation’s supply chains for renewable energy, defense, and technology.

California, the nation’s largest bar and the world’s largest cannabis market, is now giving guidance to attorneys who advise marijuana businesses on how to represent their clients and protect their licenses. The combined influence of having the most lawyers and the greatest market could easily make the state’s decision influential elsewhere.

The EPA failed to oversee Chemours Co. efforts to control emissions of the PFAS chemicals called GenX, allowing the company to self-determine whether it was complying with a federal order, the agency’s inspector general said in a report released Thursday.

American Electric Power Co. won approval from Louisiana regulators to spend about $2 billion to buy three wind farms being developed in Oklahoma.

The EPA is inching closer to a final rule that could establish a national drinking water standard for perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive.

Meeting the climate-neutrality goal is a key pillar of a 750 billion-euro ($824 billion) economic recovery plan unveiled by the European Commission, one of the Brussels-based executive’s top officials said.

Williams said generous federal and state tax credits is helping the company develop solar energy installations at its facilities to provide electricity to its existing natural gas transmission and processing operations.