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Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump, but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: Build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
A $2.4 billion upgrade is shaving minutes off Caltrain trips through Silicon Valley, doubling weekend ridership, and reducing riders’ exposure to toxic diesel pollution.
A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can electrify without installing miles of overhead wires.
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal.
Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come.
Unstable electricity is a fact of life on the island, where privatization, underinvestment, and climate change leave the grid at constant risk of collapse.
Irish farmers have been burning carbon-rich peat to heat their rural homes for generations, but the practice has come under fire.
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
