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It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps farmers save on energy and install solar.
After people buy back the land beneath their mobile homes, renewables tend to crop up.
Researchers found that the state's screening tool uses a small number of health problems that could bias which communities are designated.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for fossil fuels.
The answer: try at least $500 million.
The Department of Transportation has threatened to pull funding for high-profile climate-friendly projects in California, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Supreme Court rulings limiting federal authority have upended the legal landscape — and could discourage bold climate policies.
Unseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on allergies, disease vectors, and agriculture.