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Hurricane Fiona, which made landfall on Sunday, has damaged reservoirs and water filtration plants. Puerto Rico's only water agency is scrambling to restore services, but officials say they're waiting for flooded rivers to subside.

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  • Energy

Puerto Rico has lost more than power. The vast majority of people have no clean water

More than 760,000 customers have been left with no access to clean running water since Hurricane Fiona struck the island on Sunday.

September 20, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, in the southern Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in May. A Russian missile strike hit a facility close to the nuclear power plant on Monday.

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  • World

Ukraine says a Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant

Ukrainian authorities said that the three reactors were not hit, but denounced the attack as an act of "nuclear terrorism."

September 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Environment

As demand for electric cars grows, Chileans face the effects of lithium mining

The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?

September 17, 2022
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  • Scott Simon and
  • John Otis
A tentative deal announced Thursday would avert a strike on the nation's freight lines with the potential to throw supply chains into chaos. Above, a CSX freight train travels through Alexandria, Va.

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  • National

A deal to avert a rail strike is on track, but it won't fix U.S. supply chain issues

Supply chain disruptions have eased since the height of the pandemic, but concern over a potential rail strike, which appears to have been narrowly averted, highlights how that system remains fragile.

September 16, 2022
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  • Scott Neuman
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar on Sunday. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world.

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  • Europe

Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactors won't restart until Russians leave, its operator says

Europe's largest nuclear plant will remain shut down until Russian forces leave, the head of Ukraine's atomic energy agency tells NPR. Under Russian occupation, he says, "staff cannot operate freely."

September 15, 2022
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan speaks during a campaign canvas kickoff event on Saturday in Dover, N.H. Hassan is running for reelection and her Republican opponent will be chosen in the upcoming GOP primary.

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  • Politics

Tuesday is the final day for primary contests before November. Here's what to watch

The 2022 primary season comes to a close as voters in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island choose their nominees. In New Hampshire, a slate of Republicans wants to take on U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan.

September 13, 2022
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  • Josh Rogers and
  • Ian Donnis
Peter Petokas, from the Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College, and Michelle Herman, from The Wetland Trust, with a young hellbender they helped raise in captivity and released in 2018.

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  • Environment

Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species. That may be about to change

Bald eagles have soared back from the brink. Grizzly bear numbers are rebounding. But thousands of less charismatic species are competing for scarce conservation resources in the United States.

September 12, 2022
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  • Laura Benshoff
A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izium, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said its swift offensive took significant ground back from Russia.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Sept. 12)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

September 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Republican politicians claim big financial firms are using environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to try to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry and to advance other purported liberal objectives they couldn't achieve at the ballot box.

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  • Climate

How ESG investing got tangled up in America's culture wars

Amid Republican attacks, investors focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues say they are just trying understand emerging risks and opportunities.

September 12, 2022
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  • Michael Copley
Pipes that have been sitting for four years on the property of impacted landowner Maury Johnson, in Greenville, W.Va., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022.

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  • National

West Virginians divided over natural gas pipeline despite Manchin's support

To get Joe Manchin's vote on a budget bill, Democratic leaders promised to consider legislation that would help a natural gas pipeline get built in his state. But the pipeline still faces opposition.

September 07, 2022
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  • Laura Benshoff
Electrical grid towers are seen during a heat wave where temperature reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit, in Pasadena, Calif. on Wednesday.

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  • Energy

California could see blackouts as heat wave taxes the power grid

If Californians don't mind their energy use over the next several days, officials warn, they could force power outages during a punishing heat wave that's hitting Western states.

September 05, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
The insurance firm Axa said it regretted that its crash test of a Tesla, in which the front half of the car burst into blames, caused confusion, and the company admitted that electric vehicles don't catch fire any more often than combustion-engine automobiles.

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  • Technology

A Tesla burst into flames during a crash test. The organizer admitted it was staged

The insurance firm Axa said it regretted that its crash test caused confusion and admitted that electric vehicles don't catch fire any more often than combustion-engine automobiles.

September 02, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
People walk near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on the day a new law to save energy nationwide goes into effect on Thursday. The new law includes a wide variety of temporary measures, like banning the illumination of landmarks and regulating temperatures in public and private venues, to save electricity. These are a response to inflation and lower natural gas and other energy supplies from Russia.

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  • World

Russia's effort to break European energy unity seems to be failing — at least for now

One of the intended outcomes of Russia's war in Ukraine is to dissolve European unity on energy policy, analysts say, but the unity is so far holding firm.

September 02, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was scheduled to be shuttered in 2025. But California Governor Gavin Newsom now wants to expand its lifespan.

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  • Energy

Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today

Environmentalists advocating for nuclear power have led a push to extend the operating life of Diablo Canyon, California's last nuclear power plant. Japan and Germany consider similar extensions.

August 30, 2022
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  • Uri Berliner
Traffic on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles on Aug. 25. California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in the state must be zero-emission vehicles by 2035.

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  • Business

California wants to end sales of new gas cars by 2035. Here are 4 key roadblocks

California's move to end the sale of new gas-powered cars could prove a seminal moment in the shift to zero-emission cars — but getting there won't be easy.

August 27, 2022
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  • Arezou Rezvani
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