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![Illustration: A cracked Venetian mask with the Chamber of Commerce design on it]()
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The Chamber of Commerce says it cares about people of color. The receipts say otherwise.
While protecting its donors from climate risk disclosures, the business lobby continues to imperil Black and brown communities it claims to care about.
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![Collage: New York state split into sections, an asthma inhaler, smokestacks, money, and a sewage pipe]()
![Collage: New York state split into sections, an asthma inhaler, smokestacks, money, and a sewage pipe]()
The next test for environmental justice policy? Defining ‘disadvantaged communities.’
New York’s sweeping climate law will prioritize environmental justice communities — once it decides who they are.
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How Tesla shows Obama’s green loan program was a success
Republicans claimed Solyndra and the government's green loan program was a failure. Ten years later, what did the loan program really cost?
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![Rep. Sean Casten stands on the House floor introducing his hot FERC summer campaign]()
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The day ‘Hot Girl Summer’ came to Congress
Will a Megan Thee Stallion reference get people to care about the most important agency for climate policy?
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With disasters mounting by the day, the U.S. may finally enact real climate policy
But there are some big “ifs.”
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What’s an energyshed? The government wants to know.
The Department of Energy is crowdsourcing a definition.
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Not dead yet: How Senate Democrats aim to pass climate policy without Republicans
Senate Democrats announced some of the climate measures in their $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan.
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Exxon lobbyists paid the 6 Democrats named in sting video nearly $333,000
A new analysis takes a wide look at the company’s influence in Arizona, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
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Biden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives
A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80 percent renewable energy use by 2030.
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![Collage: A bag with planet Earth on it spilling hundred dollar bills]()
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A $100 billion promise holds the Paris Agreement together. Now, it’s coming apart.
Rich countries are failing to put the money behind their promises.
