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Coral Davenport

Coral Davenport covers energy and environmental policy, with a focus on climate change, from The New York Times's Washington bureau.

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  1. Biden Creates Two National Monuments in the Southwest

    The Spirit Mountain area in Nevada and Castner Range in Texas will be off limits to development.

    By Coral Davenport

     

  2. Biden Plans to Name Nevada’s Spirit Mountain Area a National Monument

    The biologically diverse land is central to the creation story of the Mojave and other tribes. Energy companies have also identified it as a prime location for wind or solar installations.

    By Coral Davenport

     

  3. E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks

    The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east.

    By Coral Davenport

     

  4. Biden Administration Expected to Move Ahead on a Major Oil Project in Alaska

    The decision would allow an enormous $8 billion drilling project in the largest expanse of pristine wilderness in the United States.

    By Lisa Friedman

     

  5. Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate Costs

    For more than a decade, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave daily warnings about the mounting threat of climate change. Now he has a powerful new perch.

    By Coral Davenport

     

  6. U.S. Nominates Ajay Banga to Lead World Bank

    President Biden tapped the former Mastercard chief executive to run an organization that found itself mired in controversy after comments by the current president about climate change.

    By Alan Rappeport and Coral Davenport

     

  7. Many in East Palestine, Skeptical of Official Tests, Seek Out Their Own

    The moves reflect residents’ deep-seated mistrust of government screenings of toxic chemicals and fears of long-term effects from the train derailment.

    By Emily Cochrane

     

  8. How Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive

    Cotton farmers in Texas suffered record losses amid heat and drought last year, new data shows. It’s an example of how global warming is a “secret driver of inflation.”

    By Coral Davenport

     

  9. With Two Key Picks, Biden Weaves Climate Into Economy and Regulations

    The president adds climate champions Lael Brainard as his top economic adviser and Richard Revesz as his regulations chief.

    By Coral Davenport and Jeanna Smialek

     

  10. Biden E.P.A. Reinstates Mercury Limits Weakened Under Trump

    The moves sets the stage for the agency to issue tighter controls on mercury, a neurotoxin emitted by power plants.

    By Coral Davenport