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![RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins hold up ice cream cones]()
![RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins hold up ice cream cones]()
How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction
Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.
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![Oil pump jacks with the sun setting in the background]()
![Oil pump jacks with the sun setting in the background]()
How low oil prices turned Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ into a pipe dream
Trump promised boom times for the U.S. oil industry. They're laying off staff and reducing spending instead.
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![A double rainbow is seen from the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.]()
![A double rainbow is seen from the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.]()
Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections
Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
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![Voting stickers are seen in the Georgia primary on election day, May 24th, 2022]()
![Voting stickers are seen in the Georgia primary on election day, May 24th, 2022]()
How to get Georgia voters to turn out for the PSC election? Talk about their power bills.
Campaigns and activists are racing to educate voters on the Public Service Commission, elected officials with power over energy bills and climate action.
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![Several smokestacks stand in the background with one belching smoke and in the foreground are trees and an American flag]()
![Several smokestacks stand in the background with one belching smoke and in the foreground are trees and an American flag]()
US taxpayers will pay billions in new fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill
A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.
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![Flood waters from recent storms and river runoff surround the construction site of the Tule River high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 and Avenue 144 south of Corcoran, California.]()
![Flood waters from recent storms and river runoff surround the construction site of the Tule River high-speed rail viaduct near Highway 43 and Avenue 144 south of Corcoran, California.]()
Billions spent, miles to go: The story of California’s failure to build high-speed rail
California’s dream of building a high-speed rail system linking San Francisco and L.A. is a cautionary tale of ambition outpacing funding, planning, and federal support.
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![Dozens of wind turbines spin against a blue sky with solar panels in the foreground]()
![Dozens of wind turbines spin against a blue sky with solar panels in the foreground]()
States fast-track wind and solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
Federal tax credits have brought project costs down 30 to 50 percent, advocates say.
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![A line of high voltage electrical pylons is seen in a field.]()
![A line of high voltage electrical pylons is seen in a field.]()
Josh Hawley’s ‘huge win’ will be a big loss for clean energy — and ratepayers
It's only been a few weeks since the Trump administration and Missouri Republicans killed the Grain Belt Express transmission line, but it's already clear rates will go up.
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![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’
The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
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![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities are left to pay the price.
