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The rainforest nation of Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?
Major U.S. utilities earn an “F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.
A funding proposal for an EV retrofit shop opens old wounds as a family reexamines their troubled history.
Some of the world's largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities, and the climate, are paying the price.
At this year's U.N. climate talks, the Biden team hopes a push for one of the most controversial forms of zero-emissions power will be palatable to the president's successor.
What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.
In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emissions rules.
Though the companies weren't granted exemptions, their requests illustrate the data center industry's desperate quest for energy.
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