Climate Accountability
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How a powerful company convinced Georgia to let it bury toxic waste in groundwater
Documents reveal Georgia Power went to great lengths to advocate for risky waste storage.
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US Army draws praise, criticism with new net-zero plan
"This is a great step forward, but what is required is a more ambitious plan.”
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The Biden administration is spending billions to clean up toxic abandoned coal mines
But it still isn't enough.
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‘Obsessed with optics’: The paradoxes of the UAE’s plan to get to net zero
The UAE was my home. Its policies could make it uninhabitable.
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2021 was a landmark year for energy efficiency legislation in US states
Now comes the hard part.
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Nanoplastic pollution found at both of Earth’s poles for first time
Tiny particles including tire dust found in ice cores stretching back 50 years, showing global plastic contamination.
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Electric vehicles drive up demand for ‘green metals’
The need for energy-transition metals breathes life into new mines in the West.
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The EPA is tackling pollution in ‘Cancer Alley’
Better air monitoring is coming to the Gulf, along with a crackdown on polluters.
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How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’
Hidden recorders, dirty politicians, and the corrupt companies that financed it all.
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Abandoned oil well counts are exploding — now that there’s money on the table
$4.7 billion released by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has states rethinking their abandoned oil well tallies.