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Amid unprecedented storm activity, predictions of ocean surge have improved, but inland flooding — now the deadliest hazard — is a focus of forecasters http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

A spate of battery fires could complicate the country’s green agenda http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

Dangerous storms threaten millions while dozens of high-temperature records could fall in the central states Thursday http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

As the EU ditches Russian gas over the war in Ukraine, West African nations hope to fill the void http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

Oil and gas majors on both sides of the Atlantic are scheduled to hold their annual shareholder meetings this month, and climate activists are pushing oil companies to embrace swifter climate action during the 2022 proxy season http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

The “derecho” unleashed destructive 100-plus mph gusts and stirred up a towering cloud of dust http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

The owner of a house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks that washed out to sea this week said he bought it not realizing how vulnerable it was to severe storms http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

Texas steered federal disaster grants toward Whiter, less populated areas over urban communities of color, HUD investigation finds http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

Prominent congressional Democrats are pushing to update the nation’s 150-year-old mining law, as President Biden seeks to spur the production of critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment

Reservoirs and snowpack are wildly below average, causing officials to enact summer water restrictions http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/national/energy-environment