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California towns are banning new gas stations. Big Oil is paying attention.
Some activists view the industry's response as a badge of success.
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![The Grist logo with the Blue Ridge Public Radio logo on a green background]()
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Grist adds a fourth regional reporting partnership
Working with both Blue Ridge Public Radio and Grist, the new hire will report on Appalachia in the Blue Ridge mountain region.
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![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
How to recycle the giant magnets inside wind turbines? These scientists have a few ideas.
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
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![Smoke rises from the stacks at U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania.]()
![Smoke rises from the stacks at U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania.]()
The IRA will help ‘energy communities.’ But what does that mean?
Biden’s green transition could overlook towns heavily reliant upon fossil fuels for industries like steelmaking and fertilizer production.
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Israel’s campaign in Gaza is fueling demands to make ‘ecocide’ an international crime
The Hague can only prosecute four types of crimes. Ecocide could become the fifth.
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![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
Illinois EPA must revamp its permitting process after Chicago activists file civil rights complaint
“It shouldn't have to be this hard to get these common sense rules in place.”
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![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
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![A massive dairy farm covered in black solar panels stretches into the horizon.]()
![A massive dairy farm covered in black solar panels stretches into the horizon.]()
Sheep may soon graze under solar panels in one of Wyoming’s first ‘agrivoltaic’ projects
The elevated photovoltaic panels can actually improve grazing conditions, a novelty that could help make solar projects more land-efficient and accepted in the ranching-heavy state.
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![A wet, gray freeway in the rain filled with cars and a truck, lined by tall trees and palm trees.]()
![A wet, gray freeway in the rain filled with cars and a truck, lined by tall trees and palm trees.]()
Los Angeles just showed how spongy a city can be
Amid relentless rains, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water — enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
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A geothermal energy boom could be coming to Chicago’s South Side
The key to building low-carbon infrastructure in the city? Its trademark alleys.
