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The Biden administration is spending billions to clean up toxic abandoned coal mines
But it still isn't enough.
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Lessons from New York: What makes a community turn against climate adaptation?
To build a sea wall, you first have to build community trust.
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There are ‘forever chemicals’ in beef now
How toxic PFAS made their way from sewage to fertilizer to beef in Michigan.
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What states stand to gain if Biden hikes oil and gas royalty rates
The federal government might finally charge oil companies more to drill on public land. Here’s how much money Western states have been missing out on.
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Study: Maintenance is a major driver of unaccounted-for emissions
We’ve got a lot of old oil and gas infrastructure, and it’s leakier than we thought.
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Maybe green energy needs ‘information batteries’ too
Researchers are exploring whether new strategies can get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.
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US flood risk is about to explode — but not for the reasons you think
A new study projects that the number of Americans exposed to flooding will double in 30 years. Development is largely to blame.
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Great Barrier Reef on verge of another mass bleaching after highest temperatures on record
‘Shocked and concerned’ US government scientists say heat stress over Australia’s ocean jewel is unprecedented.
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![Senator Sheldon Whitehouse stands next to a green sign with a globe and the words]()
This senator thought he had given his 279th and final speech on climate change. He was wrong.
With climate action stalled, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is reviving his "Time to Wake Up" speeches.
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‘Obsessed with optics’: The paradoxes of the UAE’s plan to get to net zero
The UAE was my home. Its policies could make it uninhabitable.
