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A Hawaii bill would limit solar power. Gov Ige plans to veto it
Controversial legislation would have derailed state's clean energy efforts.
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Biden proposes more offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska
The administration argues that without major climate policies to cut demand, lease sales will bring “net benefits.”
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![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
![Collage: red scales weighing (left) a coal plant and (right) the EPA logo. Behind the scales is a cutout of the Supreme Court building with a green and black colored planet Earth rising behind the top right section of the roof. Smoke from the coal plant floats over the building and partially obscures the Earth; two stacks of blue dollar bills peek out behind the building on the left.]()
The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation
A brief history of how dark money and the country's most powerful legal organization brought us to this point.
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The Supreme Court’s EPA decision could have been much, much worse
The decision will limit — but not prevent — the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The push to ban new gas stations is coming to Los Angeles
LA, the capital of car culture, could be the first big city to enact such a ban.
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Where have all the climate activists gone?
With legislation stalled, a mass protest movement is struggling to find its place.
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Across the Midwest, an ‘unlikely alliance’ forms to stop carbon pipelines
Farmers, tribes, and environmentalists have rallied against the potential use of eminent domain to build the Midwest Carbon Express.
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A push for public power stalled in New York, but activists say they’re just getting started
Advocates say the New York Power Authority is a "sleeping giant" in the energy transition.
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Liquefied natural gas business is booming. But at what cost to the climate?
Twenty-five projects currently underway could end up emitting as much as 20 coal-fired power plants.
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Three open questions about Biden’s new environmental justice tool
More than 2,000 public comments raise concerns that racial justice and cumulative burdens are being overlooked.
