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An orphan oil well outside Bakersfield, California, in 2020.

Interior Department announces $33M to clean up 277 methane-spewing wells on federal land. There are millions more

Children leave Wilkins Elementary school in in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 24, 2022, because os a lack of the water pressure. - Every morning, 180 students at a school in Jackson, Mississippi have to board a bus to be taken to another nearby school. The reason? Their school lacks the water pressure needed to flush its own toilets.
Cheryl Brown, the principal at Wilkins Elementary, where 98 percent of the 400 students are African-American and most come from underprivileged backgrounds, doesn't hide her frustration.

Harris and EPA will announce schools can apply for $500 million to replace diesel school buses with zero-emissions buses

Racking systems to hold solar panels at the site of solar farm under construction on top of an old strip mine in Portage, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Monday, April 25, 2022. The fallout from a trade probe is rippling through the U.S. solar industry, delaying projects and threatening to slow the renewable energy transition. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images