Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Eight more U.S. coal generators bite the dust
Coal plants in Alabama and Kentucky will get the ax, the Tennessee Valley Authority says. Unfortunately, they may be replaced by nuclear and natural gas instead of renewables.
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Logging on the rise again in the Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation had been slowing down over the past decade, but new figures show a 28 percent spike in land clearing compared to the previous year.
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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
Japan, Poland, Australia, and Canada are disgracing themselves at climate negotiations underway in Warsaw.
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Entire Texan town evacuated after pipeline explosion
A Chevron pipeline exploded on Thursday, sending up huge flames and plumes of smoke and forcing some 700 people out of their homes.