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Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have […]

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Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

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The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” unveiled to the public at Midnight on Friday, went even further than the House version in its hostility toward the nation’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The House version merely seeks to end the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for wind and solar development enacted […]

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Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job—including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his crew use to […]

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The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the […]

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California Rolls on With Electric Trucks, Despite Trump’s Roadblocks

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started an Amazon subscription to avoid running out. His kids take two asthma medications. This reflects the normalcy of pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where residents breathe some of the dirtiest air in […]

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Most People Support Taxing Carbon Even If It Costs Them, Global Survey Shows

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. That idea defies conventional political wisdom, which typically holds that people hate taxes. It emerged in a survey of 40,680 people in […]

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Utah’s High-Stakes PR Campaign to Wrest Control of Public Lands

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This story was originally published by High Country News and Public Domain and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, as Utah prepared to file a federal lawsuit aiming to take control of millions of acres of federal public land within its borders, state officials sought help swaying public opinion in their favor. So […]

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Future Climate Means No More Breakfast

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of bread baskets. More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example. Some of these highly productive farmlands, including […]

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The Sunrise Movement Has Launched a Campaign to “Villainize Big Oil”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The youth activists who put the Green New Deal on the political map are launching a new campaign to “villainize big oil” which will push for the industry to pay for climate action so the costs don’t fall on ordinary people. Seven years […]

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Miccosukee Tribe Champions Conservation Effort to Secure Florida’s Wild Lands

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Almost two centuries ago, Native American tribe members sought the protection of Florida’s Everglades during the Seminole wars as they hid from government forces seeking to banish them to Indian territories that later became Oklahoma. Now, as the Trump administration continues its wholesale slashing of federal funding from conservation projects, the Miccosukee Tribe is stepping up to […]

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Boosted By Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels

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For the first time since 2021—the start of the Biden administration—banks have ramped up their financing of fossil fuel projects, a changing tide that reflects the Trump White House’s close ties to and energetic support for Big Oil. That’s based on the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, which analyzes the lending patterns of the […]

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