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ExxonMobil found the real reason for the climate crisis: You
How oil companies used language to make us blame ourselves.
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Sustainable brewing may provide a model for a circular economy
How saved grains from the brewing process are being made into novel, nutritious ingredients.
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America is facing unprecedented utility debt. Here’s what might help.
Unpaid power, gas, and water bills “reflect the grinding level of poverty in the United States.”
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How to have the trash talk with your neighbors
Something about garbage disposal triggers emotional chaos and defies social cohesion.
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After a Trump-length pause, the EPA is relaunching a major climate change report
Drawing on data from 50 government agencies, the EPA has published 54 indicators of global warming.
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![Four years after then California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an executive order to lift the California's drought emergency, the state has re-entered a drought emergency with water levels dropping in the state's reservoirs. Water levels at Lake Oroville have dropped to 42 percent of its 3,537,577 acre foot capacity. The lake is a sliver of blue between arid hills of exposed lakebed.]()
![Four years after then California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an executive order to lift the California's drought emergency, the state has re-entered a drought emergency with water levels dropping in the state's reservoirs. Water levels at Lake Oroville have dropped to 42 percent of its 3,537,577 acre foot capacity. The lake is a sliver of blue between arid hills of exposed lakebed.]()
Two-thirds of California’s counties are in a drought emergency. Get used to it.
Water scarcity is now a permanent feature.
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Cheers? Rising temperatures could make Michigan the next great wine hub.
By 2024, Michigan hopes to have an estimated 10,000 acres in wine grape cultivation.
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Renewable energy didn’t just survive 2020 — it thrived
But don't mistake projected growth in renewables for emissions reductions.
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Why electric cars are cheaper if you’re rich
What is the true cost of electric vehicles? If you can afford the up-front costs, you might just be surprised.
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![Voting rights activists protgesting in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC]()
What do voting restrictions and anti-protest laws have in common?
Both have sponsors funded by fossil fuel companies.
