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Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
The bill would devote $369 billion toward tackling “energy security and climate change."
Americans broadly support action, a Pew poll shows, but partisanship keeps getting in the way.
The plan is heavy on fossil fuels, light on detail.
“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
As control of Congress leans right, hope for action shifts to the White House and states.
Researchers are exploring whether new strategies can get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.
In Tanzania, attacks on the Maasai are the latest in a global pattern of violence highlighted by a new report.