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"Financial institutions need to be held accountable for their role in financing false solutions."
Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.
The climate law is lowering the cost of solar and wind, but Paris Agreement goals are still out of reach.
Climate change is driving mosquitoes to new heights, bringing the bugs, and the diseases they carry, to newly vulnerable populations.
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”
A data-driven disaster tool shows “bias” against rural communities.
Amid soaring temperatures, Arizona has seen success with utility programs that incentivize people to turn down the AC when the power grid is stressed.
In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
Climate change means communities along the Mississippi River are experiencing longer and higher floods in springtime, flash flooding from heavy rains, as well as prolonged droughts.
