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Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the biggest sources of leaks is the meter outside a gas customer's home.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to climate researcher Laura Young, also known as "Less Waste Laura" online, about COP29 and what the conference is like on the ground in Azerbaijan.

President-elect Donald Trump has offered the role of U.N. ambassador to New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the highest ranking female Republican in the House.

NPR rounds up what happened this week, the fourth week of President Trump's administration, and takes a look at some developments that have been overlooked.

Five weeks in, there's an emerging pattern in how the Trump administration moves to target federal employees. And it begins with Elon Musk bringing in tactics he's employed at his various businesses.

President Trump made energy a top priority on his first day in office, declaring a national emergency – which no president has ever done before. The implications aren't clear.

President Trump has revoked federal DEI programs by executive order. NPR's A Martinez talks with the former head of diversity initiatives at the U.S. State Department about the programs she oversaw.

RFK Jr.'s nomination cleared the Senate Finance Committee by a 14-13 party line vote.

Congress created several organizations in 1980s to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. Human rights activists say the freeze is a gift to authoritarians like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

Three years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S., in a split with its European allies over the war, sided with Russia at the U.N.