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![Heat waves emanate from the exhaust pipe of a bus as it passes an American flag.]()
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With its new tailpipe rules, the EPA eyes an electric future
Automakers back the tighter emissions regulation, which climate advocates welcome but feel "falls far short of what is needed."
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California’s concerning embrace of a new forest biomass industry
Questions about environmental safety and community health loom over the greenwashed industry and proposed export scheme.
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Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn’t.
Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for "store drop-off" recycling showed many of them were buried or burned.
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![A row of secondhand formal dresses hang on a clothing rack in a store.]()
![A row of secondhand formal dresses hang on a clothing rack in a store.]()
At prom, fast fashion slows down
A Michigan high school shows how style and sustainability can mix at prom.
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![Waves crash over a broken pier as people watch from a seawall during Tropical Storm Henri in New London, Connecticut, in August of 2021.]()
![Waves crash over a broken pier as people watch from a seawall during Tropical Storm Henri in New London, Connecticut, in August of 2021.]()
Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects
A new bill could impose a fee on any company insuring a fossil fuel project in the state.
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The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom
To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.”
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Kitten season is out of control. Are warmer winters to blame?
The trend is bad news for shelters and wildlife alike.
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![A man with dark hair in a bun, a black hoodie, and green pants installs a piece of equipment outside a house.]()
![A man with dark hair in a bun, a black hoodie, and green pants installs a piece of equipment outside a house.]()
Heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid
Installing a heat pump now is better for the climate, even if it's run on U.S. electricity generated mostly by fossil fuels. Here’s why.
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![A sheet of ice stretches out in front of a blue sky. There is equipment sticking into the ice, and parts of it are melting.]()
![A sheet of ice stretches out in front of a blue sky. There is equipment sticking into the ice, and parts of it are melting.]()
Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes
So-called rain-on-snow events accelerate ice loss and trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wild animals and the Indigenous peoples who depend on them.
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![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps.
