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The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.
Heatflation has doubled the price of olive oil over the past year.
Activist investors want the company to trim its biggest source of emissions. Exxon sees that as a threat.
With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.
The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.
It's the first evidence of an oil company acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised.
Internal United Nations documents show that officials were aware of widespread environmental and public health problems that resulted from its distribution of pesticides.
Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.
Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.
