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Costs are also rising because people continue moving to coastal regions vulnerable to hurricanes and forested areas prone to wildfires.
And when disasters happen, inflation has made rebuilding more expensive.
Dominion's offshore wind facility was one of five projects targeted by the Interior Department's latest stop-work order as the Trump administration escalates its attacks on the offshore wind industry.
The Interior Department said the construction pause would give the government time to work with project developers to address national security concerns raised in a recent classified report.
Dominion said in a federal lawsuit that its project has already undergone an extensive national security review and that the pause is costing the company more than $5 million a day.
The project is expected online next year, generating enough electricity to power around 660,000 homes.
The EPA says tighter limits it put on fine particle pollution called soot were unlawful because it didn't conduct a thorough review required by the Clean Air Act.
The EPA said in a filing to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit that it finalized the regulation last year without considering the costs it would impose.
on things like power plants and factories.
The agency said in a statement that implementing the rule would cost Americans hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
Environmental groups said abandoning the regulation of toxic particles would lead to more cases of asthma, heart disease, and early deaths.
The final deal doesn't say anything about phasing out fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.
Dozens of countries had demanded a phase-out plan, saying world leaders need to deliver on an earlier commitment to reduce the use of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Instead, the president of this year's meeting, André Aranja Correa de Lago, said in the coming months he'll work on a process and timetable for reducing fossil fuel use.
Countries did agree in Brazil to try to triple funding for things like flood defenses that can help communities adapt to a hotter world.