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New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving air quality.
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Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the grid
After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.
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Can protecting nature be nonpartisan?
A conservative push for environmental stewardship clashes with federal policies that expand drilling, logging, and deregulation.
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Texas lawmakers grill Kerr County officials as flood recovery plods on
Local officials emphasized the need for river gauges and real-time rainfall monitoring to better predict flash floods.
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![A woman prepares an emergency kit for facing a natural disaster, placing a flashlight, first aid kit, medication, water, and other supplies into a go-bag.]()
Your politics, age, and gender predict your disaster readiness
Disaster-readiness might depend more on who you are than where you live.
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The USDA announced the cancellation of $148M in ‘woke’ grants. Then it went dark.
Farms, ranches, and food organizations brace for cuts, but the federal agency won’t say who’s next.
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Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
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Trump’s EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change
The decision could have far-reaching consequences — including for the fossil fuel industry, which may find itself exposed to a flood of new litigation.
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Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
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Climate change has sent coffee prices soaring. Trump’s tariffs will send them higher.
From drought-stricken farms to rising trade barriers, the global coffee industry is facing unprecedented strain.
