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Farmers and small business owners were promised financial help for energy upgrades. They’re still waiting for the money.
Rural residents are left holding the bills for everything from solar panels to grain dryers.
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The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues
Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life.
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‘Caught off guard’: EPA proposes to fire hundreds of scientists
“This is not designed to cut expenses, it's designed to destroy,” one official said.
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Gavin Newsom delayed his own ‘nation-leading’ plastic policy. Why?
Industry groups expressed concerns about California’s landmark plastic pollution law in the weeks before regulators were supposed to begin enforcing it.
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
More climate fiction
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Why a tree-planting nonprofit in Chicago is suing the Trump administration
Similar programs across the country are also struggling.
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Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
Now they're turning to the UN for help.
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You rely on this agency’s data for weather and climate forecasts. DOGE is decimating its workforce.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to cut 20 percent of its workforce, a move the agency's former chair warned will be felt through “every component of American society.”
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Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households
While some states ban shutoffs during winter, summer outages are on the rise.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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‘Our people are hungry’: What federal food aid cuts mean in a warming world
The USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls, and the end of donations at charitable groups across the country — all as hunger continues to climb.
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Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
The methane fee would have had the same impact as taking 8 million gas-powered cars off the road.
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The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Two former EPA staffers on what the closure of the agency’s environmental justice offices means for the country and the "irony" of Trump’s agenda.
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A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month
At some places of worship, hundreds of people attend the evening breaking of the fast — which means a lot of discarded food and plastic water bottles. This year, more than a dozen sites of worship are planning “zero-waste” iftars to tackle the problem.
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