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A court in Australia recommended against approving a massive coal mine proposed by a company owned by billionaire Clive Palmer, arguing that the project would exacerbate climate change and jeopardize human rights.
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood pellet mills say they’re getting sick.
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.
Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
Both for the people and, potentially, for the planet