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A British Petroleum refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by environmental advocates, as reported by the Associated Press. —Norm Holy Indiana Public Radio reports that one of Indiana’s largest coal plants is expected to close in the next seven years. Indiana Michigan …

As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the Trump administration has lifted a major hurdle for development of the Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper mine in the wilds of Alaska despite fears that it will poison the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. Even after the world’s largest economies adopted the landmark Paris Agreement to tackle the climate crisis …