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Republicans Decry Canada Wildfire Smoke After Passing “the Most Anti-Environment Bill”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires. In a letter sent to Canada’s ambassador to the US, […]

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The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods

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David Sirota can be a hard one to pin down. He’s a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders. A onetime radio host. A co-writer of the Oscar-nominated “Don’t Look Up,” a dark comedy about the looming threat of climate change. (Spoiler: Most people do not, in fact, look up.) Today, Sirota is the editor-in-chief and founder […]

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Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Massachusetts is among the American states exploring sourcing electricity from planned offshore wind farms in Atlantic Canada, following the US market-stalling moratorium imposed on the industry by the Trump administration earlier this year. The state, home to the pioneering […]

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1,500 Deaths in Europe’s Heat Wave Were Due to Climate Crisis, Study Shows

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“The influence of climate change has [temperatures] up by several degrees,” the study’s lead author said.

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Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Louisiana, natural gas—a planet-heating fossil fuel—is now, by law, considered “green energy” that can compete with solar and wind projects for clean energy funding. The law, signed by Republican Governor Jeff Landry last month, comes on the heels of similar bills […]

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We May Have to Take Climate Risks Into Our Own Hands Now

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But […]

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No, Democrats Aren’t Controlling the Weather. Neither Is Anyone Else.

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Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works, and that seems especially so when you take stock of the disinformation swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods. The Independence Day floods in Texas Hill Country have killed at least 121 people, with scores still missing. Yet even as the increasingly […]

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First Came the Wildfires—then the Floods, and the Water Crises

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. First came the drought. After three years without significant rain, northern New Mexico’s dense forests of spruce, fir and ponderosa pines were baked to a crisp. Then came the spark—a prescribed burn lit by the US Forest Service […]

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The Texas Floods Amped Up the Battle Between MAHA and the Tech Right

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One longstanding fight that has divided the political right has been over whether or not humans should be allowed to modify the weather, with religious conservatives saying absolutely not, while the tech visionaries are all for it. These debates were often theoretical, but then the catastrophic floods in Texas took place. On July 2, two […]

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Sheldon Whitehouse: Democrats and Activists “Too Polite” in the Fight Against “Malevolent” Fossil Fuel Giants

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This story is part of the 89 Percent Project, an initiative of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation,” the US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said. “The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most […]

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What We Know About How FEMA Officials Are Failing Texas

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The devastating floods that hit central Texas last Friday have now killed at least 120 people, including dozens of children, according to authorities, and left at least 150 missing. But the leaders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) tasked with supporting communities in the wake of similar disasters have been missing in action, according […]

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This Texas County Sought Disaster Resilience Help for Years. Now It’s Too Late.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flooding is a fact of life in Texas Hill Country, a region home to a flood-prone corridor known as “Flash Flood Alley.” Judge Rob Kelly, the top elected official in Kerr County, said as much on Sunday. “We know we get rains. We know […]

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