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California’s Environmental Past Confronts Economic Worries of the Present

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have focused on pocketbook concerns this year, seeing their party’s national losses as a reckoning.

© Loren Elliott for The New York Times

California Democrats relaxed a landmark environmental law this year, hoping to spur more housing construction. Cities like San Francisco are struggling to build enough units.
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Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans

Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he would push Europe to loosen environmental rules and buy more gas. Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, tied fossil fuels to a need to win the A.I. race.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, left, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the White House in March. They are currently in Europe to press U.S. energy interests.
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Appeals Court Says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Can Stay Open

An appeals panel paused a federal judge’s ruling that no additional detainees could be sent to the center, and that much of it had to be dismantled within 60 days.

© Marco Bello/Reuters

The immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.
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In Yellowstone, Migratory Bison Reawaken a Landscape

A recent study hints at the potential benefits of restoring bison to an ecosystem.

© Jacob Frank/National Park Service

Bison grazing near the Roosevelt Arch of Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. Yellowstone is home to the last migratory herd — migratory bison are otherwise functionally extinct in their former range.
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