Matthew Brown

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The Hidden Costs of Standing Still
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Rivian Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts: EV Maker Deploys Ghostbusters Themed Software Update
October 14, 2026
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October 14, 2026
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October 14, 2026
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AES Indiana Petersburg Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Petersburg, Ind., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
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In this May 9, 2008, file photo, male sage grouses fight for the attention of females southwest of Rawlins, Wyo.
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Biden Administration to Restrict Drilling, Renewables in the U.S. West to Help Struggling Bird
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A Plan to Extract Gold from Mining Waste Splits a Colorado Town with a Legacy of Pollution
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The town of Libby, Mont., is seen Feb. 17, 2010. Thousands of people have been sickened and hundreds killed by asbestos contamination in the Libby area. Most of the contamination has been cleaned up but the long latency period of asbestos-related diseases means people continue to get diagnosed with illnesses.
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Trial to Begin Against Buffett's Railroad Company Over Asbestos Deaths
The railroad failed to contain the dust from the vermiculite, allowing asbestos to be blown around town.
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Criminal Cases for Killing Eagles Decline as Wind Turbine Dangers Grow
Dozens of permits approved or pending would allow roughly 6,000 eagles to be killed in coming decades.
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This Jan. 5, 2020, photo shows a bald eagle in Philadelphia. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states.
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ESI Energy Pleads Guilty to Killing 150 Eagles with Wind Turbines
The company was hit with a fine and sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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A fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Sept. 9, 2010.
Energy
Feds to Require Valves on New Pipelines to Prevent Disasters
But safety advocates said the move would not have averted the accidents that prompted the new rule.
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Endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, Gautier, Miss., Nov. 27, 2012.
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Wildlife Officials Reverse Course on Pesticide
Chemical manufacturers vowed to change product labels so the highly toxic pesticide is used more carefully.
March 9, 2022
Cleanup work at the site where more than 300,000 gallons of diesel spilled outside New Orleans.
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Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons of Diesel Near New Orleans
Thousands of fish, birds and other animals were killed.
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Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill off the Southern California coast, Oct. 7, 2021.
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Leaking Oil Pipe's Safeguards Not Fully Working
The report gives no new details on a possible anchor strike suspected to be the cause of the 25,000-gallon spill.
December 9, 2021
Workers in protective suits clean a contaminated beach in Newport Beach, Calif., Oct.6, 2021.
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Coast Guard Says 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged Calif. Oil Pipeline
The impact would have knocked a concrete casing off the pipe and pulled it more than 100 feet.
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A member of the Center for Biological Diversity, in polar bear costume, protests the Keystone XL pipeline during a visit by then-President Barack Obama to Los Angeles, May 7, 2014.
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As the Keystone XL fight escalated, Canadian crude exports to the U.S. steadily increased.
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