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The little-known Nevada company making millions off the Western water shortage
A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.
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![Aerial view of lithium mine evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert (in Salar de Atacama, Chile) with mountains in the background]()
Chile’s national lithium strategy raises questions about the environmental and social costs of EVs
Critics want the move to go beyond raising revenue and to protect ecosystems and communities from unnecessary extraction.
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Brazil’s president returns 800 square miles of Indigenous Iand to its original caretakers
The move bars non-Indigenous from any economic activity in the area and prohibits mining and logging without permission.
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How changing the United Nations will help Indigenous peoples and the world
"Indigenous people have to be at the forefront of responses to climate change."
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![Two workers survey land cleared for the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which will run from Quebec through Maine.]()
Maine court recharges plan for embattled transmission line
The new wires will help wean New England off fuel oil and natural gas.
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Why this successful climate writer quit to become an electrician
When Nate Johnson — a former Grist journalist — felt his passion for writing start to wane, he found a new direction. Now, instead of writing about the need to electrify everything, Nate is doing that work himself.
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What a pending Supreme Court ruling could mean for Biden’s new clean water protections
The fate of millions of acres of wetlands hinges on five vague words in the Clean Water Act.
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Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning
A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
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Solar and wind companies are coming to rural Texas. These residents are trying to keep them out.
In Franklin County, a group of locals are concerned about potential environmental harm from renewable energy facilities and support a bill that would impose more regulations on solar and wind. The industry says it’s being unfairly singled out.
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Electrify everything, California says — including trucks and trains
The unprecedented regulations will tackle air pollution and carbon emissions at the same time.
