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The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it
In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.
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US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
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![A barge carrying pieces of an offshore wind farm preparing to leave harbor]()
Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution.
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Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again.
But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too.
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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
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First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
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Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas
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A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
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They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.
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Scams are rampant after natural disasters. Here’s how to protect yourself.
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Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure
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How to track disaster spending in your community
Past extreme weather series
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![A man sitting on a rock watching over a herd of sheep spread across a mountainous pasture]()
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world.
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Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season
More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them.
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Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.
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Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems.
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![Collage of yellow circles containing a West Nile virus micrograph on top of a photo of a lake with low water levels]()
In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving
Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works.
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![An illustration shows a bus in the pouring rain, lit by a comforting yellow glow. A person is getting on with a broken bicycle.]()
It Takes a Full Bus
What happens when a hitchhiker stranded far from home meets a bus full of passengers who all have somewhere to be?
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Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
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