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Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model
Installations are wrapping up this month for the turnkey program providing solar, heat pumps, and batteries to households that couldn’t otherwise afford them.
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![Photo of a protest sign reading Earth Against Oligarchy, with protesters holding flag in the background]()
What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think.
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote.
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‘People would die’: As summer approaches, Trump is jeopardizing funding for AC
Some $380 million is now in limbo after Trump laid off staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills.
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The fix for parched western states: Recycled toilet water
If it’s perfectly safe to drink purified wastewater, why aren’t drought-plagued states drinking more of it?
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Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying it anyway
The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber production.
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New York City is making people compost — or pay up
New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.
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![A sign that says Palisades Elementary School with a fire truck standing in the street next to it]()
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After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned
The dispute between two Los Angeles-area districts raises a broader question of what a school district owes its neighbors after a major disaster.
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![US President Donald Trump looks on after signing an executive order in the Oval Office.]()
![US President Donald Trump looks on after signing an executive order in the Oval Office.]()
Why Trump’s executive order targeting state climate laws is probably illegal
President Trump continues dismantling climate policy with a move of questionable legality that benefits fossil fuels. States are sure to sue.
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![A man leans against a wheelbarrow while clearing debris from Marshall Presbyterian Church in Marshall, North Carolina, in the wake of Hurricane Helene.]()
![A man leans against a wheelbarrow while clearing debris from Marshall Presbyterian Church in Marshall, North Carolina, in the wake of Hurricane Helene.]()
Trump axed a rule designed to spare taxpayers the burden of future flooding
The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again.
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How Trump’s war on climate and equity is impacting ‘woke investing’
Shifting political and regulatory winds have led to fewer shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues.
