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![Senator Joe Manchin is seen behind a desk during a hearing of the US Senate Appropriations Committee.]()
![Senator Joe Manchin is seen behind a desk during a hearing of the US Senate Appropriations Committee.]()
Joe Manchin wasn’t always a climate ally, but his successor will be worse
Jim Justice's expected election to the Senate will only make it harder to pass climate policy.
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![A firefighter monitors a controlled burn at Bouverie Preserve on May 30, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California.]()
![A firefighter monitors a controlled burn at Bouverie Preserve on May 30, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California.]()
Controlled burns can provide years of protection against wildfires, new study shows
New research finds that "beneficial" fires can cut the risk of high intensity blazes by 64 percent.
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What Canada’s most expensive disaster ever teaches us about climate change
The author of "Fire Weather," a National Book Award finalist, on the unimaginable reality of disaster.
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Millions of homes are being built in fire-prone grasslands
Climate change may be fueling fires, but housing demands are driving risk.
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Saving Great Salt Lake
The fate of the Great Salt Lake's unique ecosystem hinges on Utah’s willingness to rethink how it uses water.
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Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
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Mercury is still an environmental threat
The heavy metal is poisoning Indigenous peoples' environment and health, but no one can agree on how or when to get rid of it.
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![Workers extracting oil from fracking wells in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas in 2018.]()
![Workers extracting oil from fracking wells in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas in 2018.]()
The world is doubling down on fossil fuels even as global demand peaks
A new U.N. report finds a growing gap between climate goals and oil and gas production.
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Maine voters reject effort to create the first statewide public power company
A historic referendum asked voters in Maine if they wanted to replace their privately owned utilities with a publicly owned one.
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![Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and other Republican state attorneys general speak during a press conference to discuss the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in January 2020.]()
![Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and other Republican state attorneys general speak during a press conference to discuss the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in January 2020.]()
Louisiana’s new governor is one of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest defenders
Jeff Landry has sued the Biden administration over everything from air pollution to oil leases to flood insurance.
