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Will the Inflation Reduction Act jumpstart carbon capture?
The new climate law makes tax credits for the controversial tech more lucrative and easier to access.
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![Aerial view of bleached sections of rock surrounding Lake Powell, showing the amount the water level has dropped due to climate change]()
Federal government announces historic water cuts as Colorado River falls to new lows
“The system is approaching a tipping point."
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Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law
It’s the single biggest climate package in U.S. history.
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![Collage: american flag with stack of paper labeled Inflation Reduction Act, with a stamp reading]()
House passes the Inflation Reduction Act, the ‘most significant’ climate bill in US history
It's the “most comprehensive, most complete, most serious climate bill that the Congress has ever passed.”
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Massachusetts’ Republican governor signs far-reaching climate bill into law
It’s “a big f****ing deal.”
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Interior Department backtracks on public comment period for Willow project
The government told an Alaska Native village it would have more time to give feedback on an oil project. Then it reversed course.
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![Collage: newspaper clippings with headlines about drought; photos of a yard with brown grass and a hose, cracked earth, a faucet dripping water, a field of dead almond trees, and a mountain with barely any snowpack on it; a circle made of wavy yellow lines is on top of the center of the collage]()
How climate change spurs megadroughts
The curious connection between the sky’s “thirstiness” and the dry spell devastating the western U.S.
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The Inflation Reduction Act promises thousands of new oil leases. Drillers might not want them.
The bigger question about Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel provisions is if they’ll succeed on the senator’s own terms.
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![Senator Chuck Schumer holding a piece of paper in one hand with the other hand raised in a fist, a smile on his face; cloudy sky behind him]()
![Senator Chuck Schumer holding a piece of paper in one hand with the other hand raised in a fist, a smile on his face; cloudy sky behind him]()
US Senate passes historic climate bill
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes $369 billion for energy security and clean energy.
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In exchange for climate legislation, Joe Manchin was promised a pipeline. Will he get it?
The agreement might not solve the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s biggest problem: compliance with environmental law.
