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In this Jan. 11, 2006, file photo, a gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove in Stuttgart, Germany. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

They’s cooking with…anything but gas: Green groups align to push all-electric stoves

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A pot sits on a gas stovetop. (File Photo credit: DGLimages via Shutterstock)

Green groups, government officials meet secretly to plot end of gas stoves and appliances

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Deal signed to treat glass factory waste by Allegheny River

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Lawsuit seeks environmental review of Maine energy project

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

Cities hope to build reservoir near Holy Cross Wilderness

By BRUCE FINLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 2008, file photo, visitors walk along a pathway near the entrance to the Muir Woods National Monument, named after John Muir, in Marin County, Calif. The Sierra Club is reckoning with the racist views of founder John Muir, the naturalist who helped spawn environmentalism. The San Francisco-based environmental group said Wednesday, July 22, 2020, that Muir was part of the group's history perpetuating white supremacy. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Sierra Club apologizes for founder John Muir’s racist views

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 photo, from left, Mary Blitzer, of the Sierra Club, gives a petition of over 23,000 signatures to Amira Adawe of the Beautywell Project as they deliver it to the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Shakopee, Minn. The two non-profit groups launched a campaign for Amazon and E-bay to stop selling toxic skin-lightening creams that contain mercury. (Christine T. Nguyen /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Amazon pulls skin-lightening products after groups’ concerns

Associated Press

This May 25, 2019, file photo shows Michael Moore at the awards ceremony of the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

New Michael Moore-backed doc tackles alternative energy

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press

Colorado Editorial Roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Appeals court rejects new hearing in Dominion coal ash case

Associated Press

In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference with Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, second from left, in East Chicago, Ind. Perrotta, the security chief for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on the side as a private investigator for the owner of a tabloid news company with close ties to President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

Sierra Club launches television ad calling on Donald Trump to fire Scott Pruitt

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Arsenic in groundwater? Virginia coal ash case before court

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

Lawsuit seeks to stop work on Appalachian gas pipeline

By JOHN SEEWER - Associated Press

Speaking at a regional oil summit on Wednesday in South Africa, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said it was time to break the global "culture of shame" around using oil, gas and coal. (Associated Press/File)

Sierra Club wants Rick Perry to resign over comments linking fossil fuels to sex assault prevention

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE This Monday June 27, 2016 file photo shows a non-permeable cover tops Coal Ash Basin B along the banks of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Va.A federal judge has ordered Virginia's largest utility to conduct two years of water, sediment and biological tissue sampling at the Chesapeake Energy Center, where he ruled earlier this year coal ash is polluting surrounding waters with arsenic. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Judge orders tests, new plan for leaking coal ash site

By SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took a close look at Bears Ears National Monument in May and recommended last month that President Trump reduce the size of the designation. Such a move is hardly unprecedented. (Associated Press/File)

Bears Ears monument changes have precedent

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 27, 2016, file photo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg waves after speaking to delegates during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The former New York City mayor addressed his intensifying focus on climate change on Saturday, April 22, 2017, in an email interview with The Associated Press. Bloomberg said he wants to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate

By STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press

FILE - This Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, photo shows an aerial view of the fly ash landfill at Dominion's Chesapeake Energy Center in Chesapeake, Va. Millions of tons of ash stored at the former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks. Virginia and its public utilities struggle to cope with the coal ash buried in pits and ponds across the state, tons more of the industrial byproduct is being imported each year. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Judge rules Dominion’s coal ash site pollutes Virginia water

By SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 29, 2014, file photo, clean air advocates cheer as Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, speaks at a rally outside an Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Atlanta. Sierra Club lawyers who've preached against the environmental evils of coal-burning power plants for decades are trying to force the closure of the last significant one in renewable energy-rich Nevada with arguments based on a different sort of green: money. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Push to close last Nevada coal plant centers on money

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Top Kansas court clears way for new coal-fired power plant

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press