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![Collage: Silhouette of the United States with crushed plastic bottles]()
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Corporations tried to blame you for the plastic crisis. Now states are turning the tables.
As recycling heads to the dump, Maine and Oregon have a new strategy: Make companies pay.
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Report: To close the park access gap, open up schoolyards
Opening up schoolyards to the public would give 20 million more Americans access to a park.
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Global windfarm installations expected to surge after COVID drop, says report
Offshore energy boom in China will grow world’s windfarm capacity by more than 12 gigawatts in 2021.
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Study: Indigenous resistance has staved off 25% of U.S. and Canada’s annual emissions
That's the pollution equivalent of approximately 400 new coal-fired power plants.
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One tiny chip is choking up America’s largest automotive factories
What it means for the transition to electric vehicles.
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Biden administration says solar could provide nearly half of US electricity by 2050
A Department of Energy blueprint says a 15-fold expansion of solar power is within reach.
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These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’
‘Zombie’ urchins have obliterated West Coast kelp forests. Can they be stopped?
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It’s been 2 years since the last UN climate conference. So why do some activists want to postpone COP 26?
COVID-19 already derailed last year's conference.
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‘Orca,’ the largest carbon removal facility to date, is up and running
It can remove 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. But the cost isn't clear yet.
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![Emory and Henry Peters, 2, walk with their nanny Cynthia Chavez at Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The unusual orange and red-hued skies were a result of smoke from the Northern California wildfires.]()
![Emory and Henry Peters, 2, walk with their nanny Cynthia Chavez at Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The unusual orange and red-hued skies were a result of smoke from the Northern California wildfires.]()
Wildfire smoke claims more than 33,000 lives each year, new study finds
And that number doesn't even account for long-term exposure.
