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SEC will require companies to disclose emissions, with one glaring gap
The agency's new rule excludes 75% of companies' climate pollution.
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How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can’t.
At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.
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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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![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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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.
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Campus divestment activists eye fossil fuel profits on stolen land
Grist investigation reveals 14 land-grant universities making millions off Indigenous land.
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![An Amazon warehouse with shades of lighter and darker blue against a blue sky.]()
In New York, 1 in 4 residents now live within a half-mile of a mega-warehouse
The problem: The pollution from all the truck exhaust is mega-dangerous.
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Ignoring Indigenous rights is making the green transition more expensive
“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S. you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."
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![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.
Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.
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![solar panels in the forms of crosses installed on the slanted roof of a Christian church]()
Across the country, houses of worship are going solar
A federal rule makes it easier for churches, synagogues, and mosques to put solar panels on the roof.
