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The overlooked climate solution making headway at COP28: Doing more with less
Doubling the annual pace of energy efficiency progress would achieve half of the emissions reductions needed by 2030.
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Chicago pauses proposed tent city for migrants amid contamination fears
Neighbors and advocates push back against a plan that would put housing on a former industrial site
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Building sustainable roads in emerging economies
A powerful new approach can help developing countries make road construction and maintenance greener and more affordable.
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Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick.
Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.
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Plastic credits are supposed to support new cleanup projects. Do they?
Critics say they won’t work, for one of the same reasons carbon credits haven’t.
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The best forest managers? Indigenous peoples, study says.
Scientists suggest that long term, local governance is the best way to save forests.
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America’s first ‘enhanced’ geothermal plant just got up and running
Next-generation geothermal could be a huge source of carbon-free power. A first-of-a-kind project from Google and Fervo Energy is a step in that direction.
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At COP28, a raft of initiatives to reduce methane includes a long-awaited EPA rule
The EPA rule could trim 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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Salton Sea could meet nation’s lithium demand for decades, study finds
The potential of geothermal brine extraction dwarfs the deposits at Thacker Pass in Nevada.
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The EPA is aiming to get rid of lead pipes in 10 years. But not in Chicago.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.