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Bernie Sanders wants to ban new offshore drilling and fossil fuel development on federal land
The presidential candidate announced his support for a new climate bill.
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Most Americans accept that climate change is real, they just don’t care that much about it
Less than a quarter of Americans are very worried about global warming, a new poll finds, and most don't see it as a moral issue.
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Here’s what world leaders could actually achieve on climate change in Paris
The deal in the works won't keep warming below 2 degrees C, but it could make a big difference anyway.
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Getting warmer: More Republicans are starting to take climate change seriously
Sen. Kelly Ayotte is among a handful of politicians trying to shift the GOP's approach. A recent Conservative Clean Energy Summit had the same goal.
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Climate change is forcing people to migrate and the world doesn’t have a plan to handle it
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we're still arguing over what to call them.
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Russia takes a skeptical approach to climate change thanks to Putin
Vladimir Putin isn’t very worried about climate change, but Russia should be.
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The state of carbon pricing is messier than we might like to think
There's not much chance of a global carbon price emerging from Paris, but smaller cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes are in effect around the world.
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Christie was the only Republican asked about climate at the main debate — and he got it all wrong
Chris Christie acknowledges that climate change is real, but his comments about it at Wednesday's debate were still awfully ignorant.
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These two Republican presidential candidates defended climate science during debate
Watch George Pataki and Lindsey Graham say CO2 is heating up the planet. Too bad they were at the second-tier debate instead of the first.
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Is the USDA trying to silence a pesticide researcher?
A whistleblower complaint says the feds suspended a researcher because they didn't like his findings that a popular pesticide is harmful to monarch butterflies.
