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Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Wednesday it would cut in half the amount it charges companies to build wind and solar projects on ...
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World
‘Blimey, He Looks High.’ A Gale-Force Play-by-Play at Heathrow Goes Viral.
LONDON — As a winter gale with 70 mile-per-hour wind gusts tore across the British Isles on Friday, the government warned everybody to stay ...
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World
After a Plague, a Labor Reckoning
In the wake of a devastating pandemic, millions of people are dead and many more have had their lives upended. Many of those who survive, worn ...
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Business
Biden Administration Halts New Drilling in Legal Fight Over Climate Costs
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is indefinitely freezing decisions about new federal oil and gas drilling as part of a legal brawl with ...
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Business
Biden Administration Approves Two Big Solar Projects
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it had given the go-ahead to two major solar projects on federal land in the California ...
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Real Estate
Business Activity Makes My Building Unsafe. What Can I Do?
Q: I live in a small rental building in Brooklyn. Another tenant has leases for several of the units. He lives in one, and uses the others for a ...
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Business
How Leather Seats in Luxury SUVs Fuel Amazon Deforestation
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network. BURITIS, Brazil — One morning this summer ...
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Politics
Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home
For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian ...
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Arts
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
To get to Newtown Creek, a severely polluted New York City waterway and Superfund site once teeming with oyster beds, the Mohawk artist Alan ...
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Business
Senate Confirms Biden’s Pick to Lead the Bureau of Land Management
WASHINGTON_ The Senate on Thursday narrowly approved Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management, capping months of efforts by ...
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