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The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
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.
Giving workers more of a chance and a choice when extreme weather hits.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Jacksonville residents and local grassroots organizations are working with city officials to take a markedly different approach to managing flood risks.
The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.
Regulators voted last week to prohibit wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, from being discharged into the lands and water of the Delaware River Basin.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
