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![A picture of a sprawling liquefied natural gas export terminal, Plaquemines LNG, along the Mississippi River.]()
![A picture of a sprawling liquefied natural gas export terminal, Plaquemines LNG, along the Mississippi River.]()
On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US
Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG.
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![A row of oil pumpjacks in a field surrounded by mountains]()
The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it
In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.
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![A collage of national park landscapes in Utah, a car, the highway, a road map, wind turbines, and a prescribed burn landscape]()
![A collage of national park landscapes in Utah, a car, the highway, a road map, wind turbines, and a prescribed burn landscape]()
The great American road trip is in peril
Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.
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![man standing on stage with map of USA behind him with text reading ARPAE]()
US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
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![A barge carrying pieces of an offshore wind farm preparing to leave harbor]()
![A barge carrying pieces of an offshore wind farm preparing to leave harbor]()
Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution.
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With Grist grants, 5 news organizations produce climate-focused reporting on rural America
The stories examined climate and environmental impacts from Maine to Oregon.
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![A man out standing in his field.]()
Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again.
But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too.
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![A man sitting on a rock watching over a herd of sheep spread across a mountainous pasture]()
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world.
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Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season
More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them.
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Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.
