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  EPA proposes weakening heavy-duty truck pollution rules

  The Trump EPA calls Biden-era rules for cutting pollution from heavy trucks "unworkable." The proposed changes have been celebrated by trucking groups and denounced by environmental groups.

  • Camila Domonoske

• Coastal communities spending millions to fight onslaught of seaweed

  Beach towns along the Atlantic Ocean are adjusting to large amounts of seaweed that floats onto their beaches each summer. It's sargassum season.

  • Reshma Kirpalani
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  Colorado baseball team, students and the feds team up to save an endangered fish

  The razorback sucker has been swimming in the Colorado River for an estimated 5 million years before humans nearly fished them out of existence. Now high schoolers are teaming up with a local baseball team and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to save this beloved fish.

• Conservationists are working hard to save the endangered frosted flatwoods salamander

  When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off.
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  How a Northwest tribe and an endangered sea creature are helping each other

  One of the most endangered sea creatures of the Pacific Ocean is getting a leg up in the kelp forests of Washington’s San Juan Islands: a 24-armed sea star called the sunflower star.

  • John Ryan
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  ‘Like a large truck rolling by.’ 3.8 magnitude quake near Oak Harbor felt by thousands

  An Oak Harbor city official said Wednesday’s late night 3.8 magnitude earthquake is a good reminder to review emergency plans and make sure you have basic preparedness supplies.

  • Cornelius Hocker

• How Chicago is preparing for this week's heat wave

  A heat wave in Chicago in 1995 killed more than 700 people and led to changes on how the city handles heat.
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  Amazon's carbon emissions jumped 16% in 2025. The driver: massive data center buildout

  Amazon has pledged to have net zero emissions by 2040, but the data center requirements of artificial intelligence have raised questions about the potential for Amazon and other big tech companies to reduce their carbon footprint.

  • Monica Nickelsburg
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  Wildfire near Hoh River in Olympic National Park still burning after rain

  A wildfire sparked by lightning has been burning for nearly a week in the Olympic National Park.

  • Aspen Ford/Washington State Standard

• People are learning to coexist with black bears as their population grows and habitat shrinks

  Black bear encounters are on the rise in Tennessee.

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