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![A windmill next to a barn with hay bales in front.]()
![A windmill next to a barn with hay bales in front.]()
Michigan wants to fast-track renewable development. Local townships are suing.
About 80 townships and counties are challenging the state's Public Service Commission over how it plans to implement a new permitting-reform law.
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![Photo of Trump giving a speech in front of boxes of Whirlpool appliances]()
![Photo of Trump giving a speech in front of boxes of Whirlpool appliances]()
How to take climate change out of the culture wars
What if the resistance to climate science is not really about science at all?
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![Protesters hold signs, including a prominent red one reading "carbon market"]()
![Protesters hold signs, including a prominent red one reading "carbon market"]()
At COP29, new rules for carbon markets made them even more controversial
Environmental groups say weak guidelines risk facilitating “cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff.”
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![Collage of dollar snippets beside tightly cropped photos of John Podesta, Ed Miliband, Mukhtar Babayev, and Jennifer Morgan]()
‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy
Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku.
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![Wind turbines stand against a sunset near the Gulf of Mexico.]()
![Wind turbines stand against a sunset near the Gulf of Mexico.]()
Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind energy — but it might not be easy
A giant wind farm off the Louisiana coast will be hard to derail.
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![A book cover with the words 'Overshoot' on it. Behind it is a graph going up from left to right and changing color from blue to red.]()
![A book cover with the words 'Overshoot' on it. Behind it is a graph going up from left to right and changing color from blue to red.]()
How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees
A decade after the Paris Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we've kept on with business as usual.
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![An aerial shot of a green forest running along a mountain ridge with a road in the middle]()
How a dwindling helium supply is impacting public land management
A new BLM plan for western Colorado makes a priority of helium production, worrying environmentalists.
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Mississippi River towns pilot new insurance model to help with disaster response
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
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![Bottled water and a toilet paper roll sit on a small box near a house]()
![Bottled water and a toilet paper roll sit on a small box near a house]()
Some towns still don’t have drinkable water months after Hurricane Helene. A full recovery could take years.
The flooding that devastated western North Carolina during Hurricane Helene knocked out dozens of rural water systems.
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![an african american person holds a sign up in the middle of a crowd of people. The sign is a fabric banner that says TRUMP: CLIMATE CRIMINAL.. Behind her is a blurry background showing a man in a hat at a podium and an audience with their phones out looking away from the podium.]()
![an african american person holds a sign up in the middle of a crowd of people. The sign is a fabric banner that says TRUMP: CLIMATE CRIMINAL.. Behind her is a blurry background showing a man in a hat at a podium and an audience with their phones out looking away from the podium.]()
Where did all the climate voters go?
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump, but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
