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![An Energy Star label is displayed on a new washing machine at a Best Buy store as a shopper in the background considers washing machines.]()
How Trump’s latest rollback could raise your utility bills
The Energy Star program has quietly saved Americans billions in energy costs and has slashed emissions. Now it's now on the chopping block.
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A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don't know about it.
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Coming this summer: Record-breaking heat and plenty of hurricanes
Forecasters are predicting higher temperatures across the U.S. and up to 10 hurricanes. Cutting federal programs could leave people even more vulnerable.
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![A worker pulls on a rope to secure equipment at a wind turbine under construction at the Werder/Kassin RH2-WKA windpark in Germany. Another turbine rises in the background.]()
![A worker pulls on a rope to secure equipment at a wind turbine under construction at the Werder/Kassin RH2-WKA windpark in Germany. Another turbine rises in the background.]()
A ‘green backlash’ helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?
Conservatives led by Friedrich Merz remain committed to renewables, but say "we must and we will change" an economic policy focused on climate.
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Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent.
For three years in a row, Indigenous leaders have called for an end to carbon markets, carbon offsets, and geoengineering technologies.
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![Flares of light against a red sky.]()
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Louisiana already has 4 LNG terminals. It just added another.
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
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![A sign displays a hurricane warning along a roadside as preparations are made for the arrival of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Florida on September 25, 2024.]()
![A sign displays a hurricane warning along a roadside as preparations are made for the arrival of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Florida on September 25, 2024.]()
The National Weather Service is once again translating lifesaving alerts. What happened?
Political pressures may have driven the federal agency to backtrack on its decision to suspend automated weather translations.
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![Senator Raphael Warnock at a podium against a dark background with blurred lights]()
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In Georgia, a fight over credit for its clean energy boom
According to a new report by Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, some 42,000 jobs are now at risk, as Republicans consider repealing IRA tax credits to pay for President Trump’s proposed tax cuts.
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![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year
People in Asia are exposed to levels up to six times higher than their counterparts in the West.
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Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
